At work, we have a Canon LIPS-IVv driven printer. The printer itself is not supported under Mac OS X, and the Canon printer drivers from Canon’s site are … awful. They install all kinds of horrible shit onto your machine, crash, etc, and don’t print.

For a while, I have been using the foomatic and ghostscript renderers for Cups to print to this printer. Every time I re-install my machine, I have to set everything up again.

So, what the hell I thought - lets make an installer!

BetterCanonDrivers1.0.0.dmg (5.4M)

These drivers are provided as-is. I hope they are useful to some of you out there in the same situation as me.

If you have any problems with this package (its only been tested on my machine so far) then please let me know. It should work on anything from 10.2 and up, maybe earlier, but I just don’t know.

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