![]() So I went backward and picked OS that is lightweight and also is compatible with the printer drivers. I have attempted to use Alpine Linux as a starting point but I could not make Canon UFR LT II drivers work there. ![]() The OS on the other hand is a bit trickier. So running something in the VM there wasn’t unreasonable. The HW choice was rather trivial - I have Synology DSM running in the printer’s vicinity with tons of RAM and 4 core CPU that is idle most of the time. Configuring network access to the scanner.Configuring AirPrint services with avahi. ![]() Configuring and sharing printer in CUPS.There are a bunch of tutorials online on achieving similar goals but I had to tweak them to make it work - I was stumbling on issues all the time. This post is a walk-through of configuring an instance of CentOS to make the device network-accessible with the following features: ![]() Still, it has been over 10 years and it works great and I’m absolutely happy with its performance. I have a fairly old but great laser multifunction Canon MF4150 that never really supported scanning from anything but windows and whose MacOS printing drivers lag behind OS releases by a large margin causing frustration after each new release. ![]()
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