Re: [LUG] Canon MG6450 - unsupported printer?

On 17 February 2014 11:39, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mac OS X uses CUPS too. Apple is the lead developer and maintainer of

CUPS. In that sense, and the sense of who actually pays for it, CUPS
is Apple software, though it is also FAIF and they don't seem
concerned with branding, which is... unusual. Anyway. So the Mac DMG
for any given printer pretty well has to contain the appropriate CUPS
PPD.

Not sure I understand "finding it may be a bit of a gamble". A bit
tricky if you don't have a Mac? Probably. I see packages called
'dmg2img' and 'hfsplus' in the debian repo; don't know anything about
them.

I downloaded the latest Mac file from the Canon UK website. It is indeed a DMG. I converted it to an IMG using dmg2img, loopback mounted it and found... a PKG file inside. I unxared the PKG file, to find a few GZIP files insidee, which when gunzipped turned out to be CPIO "archives". Eventually after unCPIOing them I found... not a single PPD file anywhere.

Whilst there, however, I did also notice these, which may be more useful for you:
MG6400 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 4.00 for Linux (debian Package archive)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/otqyl9u

MG6400 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 4.00 for Linux (rpm Package archive)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/k4cx9jc

Grant.