Canon MG5520 wireless printer

Kevin Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Oct 6 23:57:51 UTC 2014


On 10/06/2014 03:44 PM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 12:32 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Since it wasn't clear, "bnjp://" over 8611 is the "bonjour" protocol
>> (Apple's implementation of the Zeroconf protocol).
> No it is not Bonjour related. BJNP is the Canon Inkjet printing
> protocol. Cups-bjnp implements this protocol to enabler network printing

That's what I was thinking.  On a Canon printer I was thinking that the
BJ part of the name stood for "Bubble Jet" which was a Canon thingy a
few years back.

> on Canon Inkjet printers. Sane implements it (on port 8612) for scanning
> over IP-networks. Now it is true that Canon printers often use Zeroconf
> for advertising their capabilities, so cups-bjnp could theoretically use
> it to find printers. It however uses UDP broadcasts to find the printers
> on the local network. Implementing zeroconf in cups-bjnp is somewhere
> low on my TODO list (I wrote cups-bjnp) as nobody has asked for it and I
> have no use for it myself.
> 
> Best regards, Louis 

Thanks for the clarification Louis.

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