Canon F50 printer

[Wade Hampton]

Alex Olivas wrote:

> Wade Hampton wrote:
>
>> G'day,
>>
>> I happened to purchase one of these a while back (dumb),
>> and it currently is not recognized by Fedora.  Any idea on
>> how to get the usb printer driver stuff to at least recognize
>> this as a printer.  Once I do that, I may be able to use one
>> of the other Canon printer drivers with this beasty.
>> -- 
>> Wade Hampton
>>
>>
> have you tried looking at /dev/usb/lp0? 

Any access to /dev/usb/lp0 results in "no such device"....  I manually
loaded the printer USB module -- still no luck....

> i have a canon i560 and that's what it's assigned to.
> i also have had pretty good luck with the turboprint drivers. 
> http://www.turboprint.de/english.html
> it doesn't list the F50 as a printer the current version of turboprint 
> supports, but if you send them
> an email they may be able to help you out.

Thanks, I'll do that.
--
Wade Hampton