And now for our next trick, we're going to revive old Canon LaserShot LBP printer!
There are many ways to do that, so I've splitted them into two categories:
- Solutions involving Windows in some way
- Solutions involving GNU/Linux
The latter can also be used to make a printer visible for your local network, so you might use Windows, MacOS, another Linux machine or even Android phone to print off the main Linux machine.
- VirtualBox with Windows XP 32/64-bit, original driver from Canon, guest additions, usb passthrough and bidirectional drag'n'drop for the files and batch file for easy launch
- Naturally a Windows XP 32/64-bit installation
- Install CUPS and
- build a specific reverse-engineered driver and use this machine directly
- Or use static binaries for x86-64 systems
- Or use .deb package with original drivers from the Canon
- Or as a print server
- Heavily refactor Linux capt driver for LBP-810 and LBP-1120
- Explain Windows ways (make a tutorial)
- Explain Linux ways (make a tutorial)
- Emojis all over the place for this README