If you use Linux and have a Canon LBP2900, 3000 or 3200 printer, you couldn't possibly not notice that the official drivers are a bit on the ageing side, to put it politely. After a bit of reverse engineering new open source drivers are available for those brave of you.

The drivers presumably also support the following similar devices:

• i-SENSYS LBP-2900
• i-SENSYS LBP3000
• Laser Shot LBP-1120
• Laser Shot LBP-1210
• Laser Shot LBP2900
• LaserShot LBP3000
• Laser Shot LBP3300
• LBP-3200
• LBP5000
• LBP5100
• LBP5300

If you have some spare time on your hands and, above all, compilation skills, don't hesitate to fetch code from SVN, give it a go and report to developers.

More on this topic:

• Ghostscript 9.04 released with advanced color control
• Major update of CUPS is out
• Hewlett-Packard released HPLIP v3.11.7 with fixes
• HPLIP improves LEDM support, adds more drivers
• Gutenprint 5.2.7 adds support for more printers