Canon Pixma iP Printers

Submitted by distro7 on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 19:05. Canon
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Does anybody have any info on the Canon iP1500, 2000, or 3000? Do they work with Mepis? Are there any 2nd party drivers out for them?

Thanks for any help.

PS: I need a new printer..trying to decide. Have crossed off HP. Cool Cool

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Try http://turboprint.de ...

Submitted by PsionX on Thu, 04/28/2005 - 01:23.
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Try http://turboprint.de ... It's not free, but very useful drivers Eye-wink

[from Burgundy - Medion Laptop / MSI S250 clone]

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check out

Submitted by carlops on Thu, 04/28/2005 - 06:25.
Posts: 2299

check out http://www.linuxprinting.org. It contains a huge database of printers and the linux support for them.

turboprint is a good choice if you wanna buy a printer for its specs, but lacks a linux driver. In your case, I'd buy a Linux supported printer....

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

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Printer Drivers/Printers

Submitted by distro7 on Thu, 04/28/2005 - 18:08.
Posts: 93

PsionX and carlops: You've made my day! Thanks v. much. This should solve my problem!!!

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canon ip3000

Submitted by gnelson57 on Tue, 11/01/2005 - 12:44.
Posts: 2

I have successfully used the canon ip3000 under mepis using the BJC-7100 driver in cups. This was done on a w2k network.

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PIXMA iPxxxx Drivers

Submitted by Henry Harden on Mon, 12/26/2005 - 17:28.
Posts: 57

Linux versions do exist I saw them on a canon site in japan, they are bound to be around somewhere.

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ftp site in Japan for Canon Drivers

Submitted by m_pav on Tue, 12/27/2005 - 02:39.
Posts: 959

ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/

I can't interpret Japanese, so I can't help here. Canon tech support sent me this link.

I too have seen some Unix drivers for one of the iPxxxx printers besides those at the jap site, but not skilled enough to get it to work.

Would be fantastic if somebody could compile and make a deb available, even for testing.

Cheers

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Try this Ubuntu forum

Submitted by Henry Harden on Tue, 12/27/2005 - 12:21.
Posts: 57

Try this Ubuntu forum link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38995

They direct you to linuxprinting.org.

* Quoted from paris_m_ *

I have downloaded the drivers source file from Canon Japan and it only supports these printers:
pixma ip1000
pixma ip1500
pixus ip3100
pixus ip4100
pixus ip8600

Some other folks at linuxprinting.org forums compiled the ip1000and ip1500 drivers at their machines and have them available for download.
For the ip1000 look at this thread:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums....artic le=2344
For the ip1500 look at this threads:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums....artic le=2332
http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums....artic le=2342

*End Quote*

I have installed these drivers and they work.
Although, I had to uninstall 2 libraries, and install 2 others to get it to work. I'll let you know which they were later.

-H.

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Try downloading and installing the following

Submitted by sag47 on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 19:26.
Posts: 475

http://canon.codehost.com/
Try that link. Just give them dummy information. It has a BUTTLOAD of Cannon drivers for Linux. It's a huge install. I believe around 50MB.
SAM

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Canon Pixma iP Printers

Submitted by james e. thompson on Thu, 09/14/2006 - 20:50.
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Canon pixima drivers are available from a guy who writes his own in Japan. You can find the url at Mepislovers . I found it there so i think you can too .

jim

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Here's the link

Submitted by m_pav on Sat, 09/16/2006 - 08:09.
Posts: 959

Now it's on the official Mepis site as well as the MepisLovers

http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/

Mike P

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sweet

Submitted by sag47 on Sat, 09/16/2006 - 17:07.
Posts: 475

Nice Mike,
Thanks for the link,
SAM

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Pixma iP3000

Submitted by Cramp on Tue, 09/19/2006 - 21:28.
Posts: 178

AMD Athlon XP +2100/BioStar M7VIZ SATA mainboar/512MB DDR RAM/
WD 10G HDD0 Win 2K Pro NLite
WD 40G HDD1 Simply Mepis 6.0-second partition format FAT32
ATI Radeon 7000 AGP graphics card
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit audio card
Creative Blaster external modem DE5621

Hi,

I'm successfully (*edited to add that successful is putting it too strongly. So-so is a better description after a week of using this CUP driver* )using Canon BJC 7000 for my Canon Pixma iP3000 printer using the wizard in KPrinter.

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What does he mean when he

Submitted by qwazert on Wed, 09/20/2006 - 01:39.
Posts: 37

What does he mean when he says:
"You need these apt-lines:"

Where do I put these lines?

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This is where you put the lines:

Submitted by Cramp on Wed, 09/20/2006 - 13:56.
Posts: 178

Hello qwazert,

I am a newbie, so bear that in mind.
This morning I successfully installed Mr. Miyoshi's drivers for my Canon Pixma iP3000. Read over his "changes" to find correct driver to select when configuring for your particular printer.

Open a Konsole and enter:
su (this enables you to switch user to root)
asks for password
type in your root password (you won't see text as typed-hit "enter"
Then enter:
kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list

Go to last entry of text in Kwrite, and skip two lines for space between entries, then copy and paste
deb http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/debian ./

Note: make sure you have a blank line at the bottom of the list or it will not work; save and close the list.

Next, start Synaptic package manager and hit the reload button. Search for the three listed packages:

libcnbj-2.5
bjfilter-2.5
pstocanonbj

Mark each for installation, and, while you are connected to the internet, click apply and it will retrieve the packages. It took me about 30 minutes.

Then it will give you a reupdating CUPSYS after download is finished. Disconnect from internet (if using dial-up like I am)

Next, go to Print System>Print Manager and click on Properties tab>in scroll bar, click on Drivers>then click on change (at this point I had two pop up error windows saying it couldn't update Cups something or other, it may not do this for you), then select Canon, and whatever printer you are trying to select that closely matches yours. Mine is a Pixma iP3000, so I chose Pixus iP3100. My test page came out perfect!

AMD Athlon XP +2100/BioStar M7VIZ SATA mainboar/512MB DDR RAM/
WD 10G HDD0 Win 2K Pro NLite
WD 40G HDD1 Simply Mepis 6.0 partitioned-format FAT32
ATI Radeon 7000 AGP graphics card
Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit audio card

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OK...so I did all this and

Submitted by qwazert on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 01:56.
Posts: 37

OK...so I did all this and here is the feedback I got:

Unpacking pstocanonbj (from .../pstocanonbj_3.1-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/pstocanonbj_3.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonbj', which is also in package bjfilter-common
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ ok ]
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/pstocanonbj_3.1-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This was all done through the Konsole, not Synaptic.
This totally baffled me, so I went into Synaptic (as you suggested) and installed the libraries. I also noted that there were TWO bjfilter libraries already installed and that BOTH of them were ZERO byte files, so I removed them both and re-installed them.

Lo and behold, to my surprise, amazement and satisfaction...it WORKED!

Thanks so much for the lesson! I was resigned to being WITHOUT a printer!

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Great!

Submitted by Cramp on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 13:21.
Posts: 178

Great to hear! I'm currently unresigned to not being able to use my Canon PowerShot digital camera. Workin' on it.......... Puzzled

Dr. Lazarus: By Grabthar's hammer, we live to tell the tale. Surrender may be our only option!
Commander: No! Never give up ... NEVER surrender.
From, Galaxy Quest

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Canon Printer help/sugestion....

Submitted by LNX-KRAZY on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 21:53.
Posts: 1

I'm a newbie to linux, and the forum thing, so please bear with me. Has anyone tried The Canon-Europe site? I've found Drivers for many of there printers here at this link, just use the "Printers" drop-down menu and look for your printer. Hope this helps. Good luck!

http://software.canon-europe.com/

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