Basically, it all boils down to finding the driver for this printer. The page at linuxprinting.org looks pretty discouraging and doesn't offer an actual link to anything but the Canon homepage, where they have drivers for every brand of winbloze under the sun... We've got one of those paperweight monstrosities at work, and as it's a shared resource, it means that I have to reboot into murky Gatesdom everytime the boss wants anything printed out... but at least he has sense enough to recognize the fact that no NT would ever do the job... so there...
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