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Asked: 2014-12-20 06:04:33 +0800 CST

Fujifilm ASK2000 - how to print from Linux

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My company have Fujifilm ASK 2000 photo printer. I can't find any drivers for Linux.

Maybe anybody know is it possible to use it with Linux? Maybe the printer uses some standard printer language like PCL or PostScript?

Linux Distribution is Ubuntu 14.04.

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2 Answers

  1. Short Answer: This printer does not work "out-of-the-box" with Ubuntu 14.04.

    Additional Details:

    EDIT: HopelessN00B pointed-out there's OSX drivers available. Though OSX is closer to BSD than Linux (as others have mentioned), there may be a chance;

    The OSX driver download contains two *.dmg files. If there's a PPD file or two in there, there's a chance they could be used.

    The manual mentions USB 2.0 support. Plug-in a Linux system and review the output from "lsusb". From there, you should be able to determine if there's a driver available.

    EDIT: Since the addition of the lsusb output, we can check the Linux USB ID Database

    Bus 003 Device 007: ID 07ce:c009

    Interpreting the USB ID is the easy part;

    • First four hex digits are the "Vendor ID" (07ce:)
    • Second four hex digits are the "Product ID" (:c009)

    Unfortunately, the USB ID DB doesn't yield any hits;

    USB ID DB Entries

    07cd    Elektor
07cf    Casio Computer Co., Ltd

    It goes from 07cd to 07cf (skipping 07ce entirely). I would suspect that the product has been second-sourced (made by someone else on FujiFilm's behalf), according to the USB-IF FAQ

    Your Linux distribution of choice may have a "printer setup wizard" that you may want to try.

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  2. They don't seem to offer Linux drivers on their website, but they do offer OSX drivers. Since OSX is really just a customized version of Linux BSD, you might be able to make the OSX drivers work on Linux, with a little effort.

    The linked page also has a contact option - I'd ask Fuji about their Linux support before doing anything else, as that seems like the easiest, lowest effort approach.

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