Hello, I´d like to test ddiwrapper fro Canon iP4500 because proprietary drivers are much more worst than for XP. The printer is very slow and setting is very poor. So I found the possibility to use ddiwrapper but I dont understand how it works.:’(
I installed the package ddiwrapper but no idea what to do next. On one ubuntu forum I found that driverXP.exe is neccessary install to path for ddiwrapper but how? It is selfextractor for XP…
Thank you for any suggestions and also if you have experinece with this way of printing.
If you install it to a different directory, you will have to change the PPD
file accordingly before injecting it into the CUPS system. excanondriver
uses cabextract, unzip and recode, so make sure you have these installed.
This will create a printing queue called “ddiwrapper” that, if printed to,will pipe PostScript input through GhostScript, ddiwrapper and the Windows printer driver out to your USB printer. If you are using a graphical user interface such as kprinter you can use it to choose paper format, paper
type, duplex mode and printing quality.
f. Finished. Now you should be able to print to your formerly unsupported Canon printer through CUPS.