Canon LBP 2900 drives me crazy

[Bruce Byfield]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 21:15 +0300, Bassel Safadi wrote:
> Hello every body,
> just installed a fresh copy of fedora 8 to use as a file and print
> server,
> I have a canon LBP2900 printer that used to print perfectly on windows
> two days ago on the same machine before converting it to Linux,
> cups see the printer with the latest driver installed from canon
> website which is ( LBP2900 CAPT ver.1.5 )
> now every time I send a print job to the printer  I got a massage
> ( Not connected? ) and it says that the printer isn't connected I'm
> sure 100% that the printer is connected but I think it's something
> related to usb detection in linux, I tried and tried, but the print
> status keep saying that it's processing the job but nothing actually
> printed and I keep getting those not connected massages..

Since the Open Printing Database describes the LBP2900 as a
"paperweight" (that is, completelly unusable under GNU/Linux I think
your chances of getting it to work are practically non-existent.

See:

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-LBP-2900

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