OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

[James Dugger]

I'm not seeing any of the imageclass series Canon printers in Turbo
Print's supported printers.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Phillip Waclawski <waclawski at mesacc.edu>wrote:

> http://www.turboprint.info/     the "Free" version tends to not have the
> most recent drivers for the newer printers, but it may have yours. Otherwise
> you can use the commercial version,
> Phil W.
>
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> *From: *"James Dugger" <james.dugger at gmail.com>
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> *Cc: *robyn at rdharriscpa.com
> *Sent: *Friday, October 8, 2010 12:40:44 PM
> *Subject: *Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers
>
>
> Speaking of Canon printers, does anyone know if there is/was any support
> for the Canon imageclass mf5750 4in1 printer scanner?  I'm running Ubuntu
> 10.04, 64bit server on the machine that I want to turn into a print server
> (through Samba so Windows machines can print to it).
>
> I can't find  anything ... , and don't want to have to buy a new printer.
> :(
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Andrew Harris <tuna at supertunaman.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the past few days, my family has been suffering intolerable slowness
>> on our wireless network. It was only on wifi; all the wired computers seemed
>> fine. I ran virus scans on the Windows boxen, tried a few options on the
>> router (a WRT54GL), and *almost* googled for "slow Linksys router". But then
>> I opened up Wireshark (yes, I know, that should have been my *first*
>> thought).
>>
>> The first thing I noticed were shitloads of MDNS packets flying by, and
>> the router trying to keep up with it all. A scrolling wall of crimson with
>> occasional interruptions in Cisco-white. I clicked on one of the MDNS
>> packets and saw that it was actually my printer. I yanked the powercord from
>> the printer and it all stopped immediately. Our printer was attempting to
>> DoS us! Our very own printer! How rude.
>>
>> I plugged the printer back in and immediately went into the admin panel
>> (served on port 80 at the printer's IP address) and disabled Bonjour and LPR
>> service notification. I suggest you do the same should you purchase a Canon
>> printer with builtin wifi.
>>
>> Just remember, in the robot uprising, DoS attacks come first. Disable
>> Bonjour on your devices before it comes to skeletal robots with miniguns
>> mounted on either shoulder.
>>
>> -ah
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> James
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