My wife had a brief flirtation with a company that required her to use Windows, and as a result I inherited a Canon MultiPass L6000. Since we only have Macs at home, this has become an expensive and bulky fax machine, but there's a nice laser printer inside waiting to get out.
No one has ever provided any Mac support for this unit - Canon, Apple, third parties. It has a parallel port, and using an HP parallel-to-USB printer cable I can connect it to my TiBook running OS X 10.2. It shows up in Apple System Profiler as an unidentified USB device, but PrintCenter shows that there is a "MultiPass L6000" available on the USB bus - but with no driver. GimpPrint lets me assign a driver to it, but the only Canon drivers available there are for bj series printers. There may be a driver for some other printer that could talk to this one, but I can't find it.
Question: what's so wierd about this printer that no one has ever supported it for Macs? I don't want to worry about scanning or faxing with it, but printing ought to be possible. Canon provides Windows drivers (including XP) for it. Is there any way to get it working? I hate to see a perfectly good laser printer go to waste....('
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