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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/moahmrn on 2025-12-05 12:30:09+00:00.

Sorry if this isn’t the best place to ask.

Canon has a website with hundreds of paper models and other printable goodies that, up until september, were freely available. Now, it’s blocked behind a CanonID, only for Canon printer owners; the files can’t be downloaded anymore, they are sent straight to your Canon print software to be printed.

Between september and october, the links were just hidden, but were still downloadable without a CanonID. Now, they are all gone.

Apparently, the Canon software downloads the PDF files to a temp folder in order to print them. Maybe listening to traffic with Wireshark can reveal a link? Unfortunately I don’t have a Canon printer to test this.

A shareable archive of the previously available content would be nice too, but it would still be necessary to make a workaround for future content, which is released monthly.

Thanks for any help!