[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can't print on Canon USB Printer MP 230 (but yes on MP160)

[Christopher Chan]

Did you tell Virtualbox to show the printer to XP?

On Friday, June 14, 2013 04:16 AM, axelle_apvrille at yahoo.fr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am stuck trying to use my Canon USB printer MP 230 on OpenIndiana
> (oi_151a7).
>
> CUPS sees the printer. When I print a test page, no error reported, 
> but nothing gets printed.
> There is no exact driver for MP 230, so I tried a couple: MP 220, MP 
> 160 with no luck.
>
> I also have a Canon MP 160 Printer. I manage to print without any 
> problem on that one.
>
> I tried to print via VirtualBox using XP as guest. But no way to get 
> it to see USB printers either (looks like this bug to me: 
> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3033). So basically, I am stuck, 
> can't print from OpenIndiana on that MP 230.
>
> Finally, those printers are multifunction printers, and normally, the 
> latest sane-backend is supposed to support MP 230 (and MP 160) for 
> scanning. But I couldn't find the latest backend for OpenIndiana.
>
> To conclude:
> * MP 160 : printing yes, scanning no
> * MP 230 : printing no, scanning no
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> Thanks
> Axelle
>
>
>
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