HOWTO: Canon iXXX series printers

[punkass]

For anyone who has a Canon i550 or similar.

Steps to get your printer up and running...and printing nicely.

1. Get the correct drivers from here: ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
(they cover i550, i560, i850,i860,i950, i990)

You need:
bjfilterpixusXXXi-X.X-X.i386.rpm
AND the corresponding cups driver:
bjfiltercups-X.X-X.i386.rpm

2. use alien to convert the rpms to debs (apt-get install alien if you dont have it)
$ sudo alien <rpm package>

3. $dpkg -i bjfilterpixusXXXi_X.X-X.i386.deb
$dpkg -i bjfiltercups-X.X-X.i386.deb

4. $apt-get install libtiff3g
$apt-get install libpng2

5. Then use the gnome gui for adding a new printer
System > System Settings > Printing
And you will now see your new driver in the list as PIXUS XXXi verX.X

6. And thats it, happy high quality printing from your canon.

Update:

Well I just tried this on my laptop with Feisty and the drivers still work fine.
Step 4 has to be changed to libtiff4 and libpng3 but other than that, everything should work.

[drmagoo]

Thanks for the how-to. Which repository/where can I find libtiff3g?
apt-get yields: E: Couldn't find package libtiff3g

magoo

[punkass]

no prob.

libtiff3g is in the universe repository, on a side note i am using hoary, but since libtiff3g is an old package it should be there for warty to.

hope that helps.

[neshaug]

I`ve done everything you said and everything worked out without any errors. The only problem is that the driver does not get listed... Neither can I find the ppd or ppd.gz file for it.

[kuleali]

Thank's this helped .

[krash]

Will this work when the printer is shared on a Windows machine?
I got the thing installed and the PIXUS-560i is there and ready in the printers config, but nothing happens when I print.

[Toddy]

It works just fine shared from a windows machine. I just recently setup my Canon i850 following these how to instructions. I created a Windows SMB network printer in System - Administration - Printing. Did a Test Page, and voila!

[azumi]

where i should find driver for canon i550

url: ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/ is down

THX !

[Turin Turambar]

Most of Canon iXXX is not supported.... Turboprint 1.89 does the job perfectly... Try tornetting a bit....

[echoz]

I managed to get the driver to install and list.

Now the problem is that the print job doesn't seem to reach the printer at all.

The Status of the printer keeps on repeating that the printer is not connected, despite the fact that lsusb shows that the device is connected.

Any ideas?

btw, i'm using hoary.