Make my Canon photo printer work with Linux

A commenter in a hardware reverse-engineering thread says he had the AI develop a working Bluetooth CUPS driver for his Canon Zoemini 2 mini photo printer. Canon only supports the printer from smartphones, so the driver made it usable from his Linux machine.

How it works

Describe the printer and the missing Linux support
The AI develops a Bluetooth CUPS driver
Test prints from Linux work

Why it’s worth knowing

Writing a working hardware driver used to be specialist work; the agent produced one for an unsupported printer.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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