Hello folks,
I just bought a canon all-in-one printer/scanner device (Pixma MP500) and am in generaly pretty happy with it. I prints and scans well and the Windows drivers work fine. It doesn't seem to like about 50% of teh images on my smartmedia cards (from an aging Finepix 40i), but handles images on a CF card without problems.
It offers irDA wireless printing of photographs from "compatible" mobile phones, but the documentation is rather vague what this means. The troubleshooting on the canon website doesn't go much further than don't put anything physically between the devices .
Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer a JPG in the same format as a "compatible" mobile phone? I tried to send from built-in file explorer (hold stylus on file and choose 'wireless transfer'), and have attempted some console commands such as cat > /dev/irda0 without success. The printer doesn't seem to recognise anything as happening.
Anyone with experience or success in wireless printing, who can offer advise?
Cheers,
Marcus
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yeah, it is possible if someone would bother to make it work but since irda is so slow, i don't see much point in doing it since usb or bluetooth is much faster... irda imho is going to be obsolete very soon with the exception maybe being simple remote control devices...
anyway, if you really want to do it, then all you need to do is:
1. compile irlpt kernel module
2. create /dev/irlpt0 device node
3. compile cups with irda support
4. configure /etc/printcap
5. compile applications with cups and postscript support
