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Canon MF743Cdw on Linux without drivers?

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I hate printers. I have terrible luck with them. I just had a Brother HL-3180cdw die on me (right after the warranty expired, of course) in a way that will cost more to fix than the printer cost. That had (proprietary) drivers which worked fine with Fedora — not a great experience, but, eh. I know Canon is _not_ very Linux friendly, but I'm nonetheless tempted by their three-year warranty. Specifically, I'm looking at the [MF743Cdw](https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/printers/color-laser/color-imageclass-mf743cdw) . Does anyone have experience using this under Linux _without_ installing drivers? That is, using network printing and standard Postcript or PCL or whatever? What about scanning? Any chance of that working without a driver? (If not, can that be at least controlled directly via the panel on the printer and _sent_ to a Linux-based network share? The Brother printer _seemed_ like it would be able to do this but it didn't actually work.) I am using Fedora Workstation (although I don't think that should matter much in this case). I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/146031/canon-printer-setup-with-no-driver-opensuse , but note that that's talking about a printer in the "PIXMA" line — I expect laser printers to be more likely to work with Postscript. Does anyone have experience with this printer in this situation?
Asked by mattdm (41207 rep)
Sep 7, 2019, 03:19 PM
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