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

[axelle_apvrille at yahoo.fr]

> Did you tell Virtualbox to show the printer to XP?

Sure. It's in the USB device filters of my VM. VBox sees there's a 
printer, no problem. But WinXP guest does not detect any...

Regards

Axelle

>
> 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