No printer drivers for Canon Pixma 150 loading on KDE Print Wizard on MEPIS live CD
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No printer drivers for Canon Pixma 150 loading on KDE Print Wizard on MEPIS live CD
Problem installing my printer - though frustratingly I DO see Canon Pixma MP150 appearing on Local Printers USB-type list. But the next Wizard screen just asks for Printer-make again, and for Medel only 2 options come up for Canon - neither being MP150.
Actually, it has just occurred to me that maybe I shouldn't be "installing" printer when I want to run MEPIS entirely from live CD.
So how will I get prints then?
Thanks for any advice about this.
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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Did you install Mepis or are you just running the LIve CD ?
It is possible that when you install Mepis that the driver is on the cd.
And some times using a other driver from the same vendor works too
Thanks Ronlau 9.
You are right - I have not installed MEPIS. But the point is, I first need to see that I have working drivers for peripherals before I partition or install.
If the driver may be on the CD, as you mentioned, I wonder why it isn't available live, when the CD is in the drive and readable. If I installed, the installation would only come from that same CD!
NO other drivers from Canon appear as options on the MEPIS printer wizard.
Distribution: Mandriva 2009 X86_64 suse 11.3 X86_64 Centos X86_64 Debian X86_64 Linux MInt 86_64 OS X
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I really do not know if you run a Live CD if it use all the driver available for that distro.
And some times you get I a printer working fine with a driver of a other printer driver from the same vendor
None of the distros I use has the printer driver for my printer , but still I get it working fine with a other driver
All right it is a little gamble
And as I stated before look at MEpis website for the supported hardware
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No printer drivers for Canon Pixma 150 loading on KDE Print Wizard on MEPIS live CD
