Skribent: terryc Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] CUPS and Canon LBP series network printers (CAPS)
On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:51:19 +0900
Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> terryc <terryc@???> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 08:24:38 +0200
> > Johan Helsingius via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Terryc,
> >>
> >> > On my Daedaus computer all three of my queues for our Canon
> >> > TS9565 (a remote printer which has similar interfacing), I use
> >> >
> >> > socket://IPv4
> >>
> >> As in literally "IPv4" or with an IP address?
> >
> > With the actual IPv4 address 192.168.x.y (redacted of course)
> >>
> >> > cnijbe://Canon/?port=net&serial=74-BF-C0-XX-YY-ZZ (mac address)
> >
> > and the actual Mac address
> >
> >> > cnijbe://Canon/?port=usb&serial=110663 (NOT bus:device so?)
> >
> > and I have no idea where that number comes from
>
> Smells like the device's serial number so you can use more than one
> and still tell them apart.
That make sense, but it isn't a direct cut, but most likely a hash
of sorts. Unfortunately my hex and oct is laborious these days and
nothing stands out.
In truth to get it working, I laboriously worked through all the
possible options and just kept the ones that worked best.