Turboprint, which rotorcraig mentioned -
http://www.turboprint.de/english.html - allegedly supports the MP700 - I don't know how good it is.
Canon give more Linux support than it seems, but only on their Japanese website.
Canon's Linux drivers page is at [3], if you can parse or guess your way through Japanese.
If you can't, there's some discussion at [4].
Debian and Ubuntu (Mepis is Ubuntu based) repackaging of the CUPs drivers by Takushi Miyoshi is at [7]. He's even rewritten the pstocanon[bi]j program and PPDs supplied by Canon, since the supplied ones crashed for him and the source was apparently awful.
[1]
http://lists.freestandards.org/piper...04/001528.html
[2]
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
[3]
http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/bj/other.html#linux
[4]
http://www.suseforums.net/lofiversio...hp/t16956.html
[5]
http://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/...2.2-1.i386.rpm
[6]
http://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/...2.2-1.i386.rpm
[7]
http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/
You might even try emailing Takushi at the address given in [7]
That's based on half-an-hour of Googling. The long and the short of it seems to be that if you spend a few days hunting and farting around trying various drivers you should get at least basic functionality working and maybe more. Whether you've got the time for that is another matter.
If I had an equivalent Canon printer I'd do it for you, if only to wipe the glee off Gertie's face.
Microsoft's monopoly and their pressure on manufacturers not to support other OSes is the real problem, so Windows isn't much of a solution.
