Canon i550 / i850 / i950 working / TUTORIAL !!!

Mala Zaba · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

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MDD · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

Mala Zaba · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:22 am Post subject:

ok, my printer work... My step is:

dencar · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:22 pm Post subject:

I bought a Canon i865 yeterday (yes I know they are discontinued) and followed the how-to in Mala Zaba's post without success - probably my fault. So then I followed Sohryu Asuka Langley's tutorial with instant success (probably took more care). I would like to thank you both for your efforts and am very pleased to be able to print without paying for TurboPrint.

As Sohryu Asuka Langley states, these drivers provide only basic configuration (600dpi) and I wonder is there a more flexible installation possible? I tried the foomatic drivers from Canon Inc. (Kosugi Office) and got more configuration options but, no matter what I set, I could only get B5 page size printing.

Thanks again; I'm most grateful.
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ketjow · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:06 pm Post subject:

Has anyone managed to get a Canon i965 to work? I followed the tutorials, but unfortunatelly they wouldn't work

Thanks

kENNy_ · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: ebuild

Hi all,

I wrote an ebuild feel free to test it:

Canon i560 ebuild

mfg
kENNy

end11 · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 11

Wow after much trying i couldnt get these to work.

However, I used the drivers that xlyz suggested and they do work, well!

Thank you xlyz this is excellent.

sprong · n00b Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 8

does that ebuild work for printing + scanner on an mp360?

sinkhole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 136

Hey, has anyone else lost their printer with the recent upgrade to cups-1.1.20-r5?

My cups setup for the printer seems to be completely intact, yet when printing I get the little red 'X' in the printer (after the job is sent). The job ends up queued. Test pages won't print either. Cupsd is running.

Even print preview and all of that works.

-S

PS: Printing under the canon 2.4 driver in kde 3.3

dreville · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Posts: 13

I have a Canon i560. Does anybody know if duplexing is possible at all in Linux? The way it works in Windows is that a window pops up when you need to flip the pages.
There also this program called Fineprint which works in Windows. Is there a similar program for linux?
Thanks.

dreville

sinkhole · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 136

My problem turned out the be mundane. Nevertheless ended up doing a step I didn't do before to get things restarted. At some point I must have rebooted and the autoloaded modules had changed... no usb modules were loaded. With the modules loaded cups still did not see the canon_usb backend (not in port list). Googled and found this link and command...

http://mandrakeusers.org/lofiversion/index.php/t9212.html

lpadmin -p Canoni860 -m canonpixus860i.ppd -v canon_usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -E

With that command run, the port showed up in the list and printing seemed to be active. usb:/dev/usb/lp0 worked but printed slowly. canon_usb:/... worked faster, but output otherwise looked the same.

Looking at the ppd file, I can't help but wonder if getting other resolutions is no more an issue than editing the ppd with known good output dpi's?

-S

HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

I couldn't get this to work at all, all my printer was doing was flash it's led and then not printing anything.

Well, I figured out the problem. even though your guide says to only do the ln -s for libpng if you already don't have the file, you need to do it anyways.

Well, it's hard to explain, but after I did:

ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2

everything was fine.

just a tip for other people who get their printer blinking the led without actually printing.

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

I was not able to use my Canon i560 und Linux.
I once got the Turbolinux drivers working, when I used a parallel cable, but now, with USB, even that doesn't work.
The canon drivers didn't work neither with a parallel or a usb cable.

I always get messages like "USB port is busy" or "parallel port is busy", the printer did not print.
Quite funny was, that when I wanted to use the i560 backend (which is found), cups configures a path to the printer /dev/usblp0 (instead of /dev/usb/lp0).
I fixed that with a symlink, but that didn't help.

I think, not only the drivers are the problem, I see that Linux still has a problem with printing.
Obviously you can do many things with cups, like managing dozens of printers.
But I want simply one printer on one PC. (perhaps other PCs should print with it, but that would come later)
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HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

do you have gnome? try gnome-cups-manager

it made my install much easier, and it allows you to pick the location of the real printer.

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

Funny, after using the KDE-Manager for installing the printer, the CANON-drivers are working.
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c_t · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:33 am Post subject:

The ebuild worked for me! I simply emerged it and then configured the printer to usb:/dev/usb/lp0 in the kde-printer-control-center.
Quality looks much better with the original drivers than with the BJC7100 but I assume ink-consumption is much higher, too.

An I still haven't found out, howto integrate the program bjfilterpixus560i which can be used to change the driversettings. any ideas how to do that?

christoph

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

On another machine I'm not able to get the bjfilters compiled.

mouve · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 30

Hi.
I hav some difficulties installing the ebuild c_t linked in his posting. No, this is not (yet) a bug report ;o)
But the problems are:
* Installing the ebuild only worked after I've downloaded the files manually and placed them in the right directory
* emerging bjfilterpixus560i didn't work (and neither it did in any variation, e.g. bjfilterpixus, bjfilterpixusi560, ...)
I don't want to use ebuild <file> merge because a) I don't know how to uninstall and b) I would like to see where the mistake was made. And to me, there is one...
Maybe I'm going to write a bug report, this posting is just to see if someone has already found a solution for this problem or just experienced the same problem.
If someone tries to reproduce the error, just download the ebuild mentioned in c_t's posting and run

# ebuild bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild digest

Here, ebuild tried to contact my standard download server instead of ftp://download.canon.jp which is mentioned in the ebuild file

Using

# ebuild /usr/local/portage/net-printer/bjfilterpixus560i/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild fetch

gentoo downloaded the sources correctly (or rather verified the ones I already had manually fetched). Afterwards, running

# emerge bjfilterpixus560i

tells me

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "bjfilterpixus560i".

A search didn't find anything either. So, what did I miss or what needs to be done to "repair" the ebuild? Maybe it's one of these mistakes that make you slam your head to the table when you find out? Hope it's not my head that will end up this way just beacuse I forgot a certain step... (o:

And sorry for my bumpy English, but I'm trying to improve.

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EDIT: Blast!

First of all, there are two ebuilds to download:
* net-print/bjfilterpixus560i/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4.ebuild
* net-print/pixus560i-libs/pixus560i-libs-2.4.ebuild
The libs-ebuild requires the bjfiltercups-2.4.0.rpm (and possibly bjfilterpixus560i-2.4-0.i386.rpm, too).

Now, there is the following error:
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4/work/bjcupsmon-2.4/src'
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DUSE_LIB_GLASE -I/usr/include/libglade-1.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -Wall -c bjcupsmon_main.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DUSE_LIB_GLASE -I/usr/include/libglade-1.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -Wall -c bjcupsmon_cups.c
In Datei, eingefügt von bjcupsmon_main.c:25:
bjcupsmon_common.h:29:25: glade/glade.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
bjcupsmon_main.c: In Funktion »initApplication«:
bjcupsmon_main.c:152: Warnung: implicit declaration of function `glade_init'
bjcupsmon_main.c:115: Warnung: unused variable `i'
make[2]: *** [bjcupsmon_main.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: *** Warte auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse...
In Datei, eingefügt von bjcupsmon_cups.c:28:
bjcupsmon_common.h:29:25: glade/glade.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
make[2]: *** [bjcupsmon_cups.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4/work/bjcupsmon-2.4/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4/work/bjcupsmon-2.4'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Fehler 2

!!! ERROR: net-printer/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4 failed.

OK... obviously, glade.h is missing...

# qpkg -fp glade.h
gnome-base/eel *
gnome-base/libglade *

but libglade is installed, and so is eel.

# find / -iname 'glade.h'
/var/tmp/portage/bjfilterpixus560i-2.4/work/bjcupsmon-2.4/po/glade.h
/usr/include/libglade-2.0/glade/glade.h

*shrug*

What did I forget?
- libglade is installed (version 2.4.0)
- glade is installed (version 2.6.

- gtk+ is installed (version 2.6.2 -- interesting: pkg-config --modversion gtk+ says "1.2.10", is this the missing library? I'm testing...)

rat02 · n00b Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

I followed the guide, and managed to set up mu printer with cups. It didn't have i450 as a driver so i picked s450 (close enough). I printed a test page, and it was squished to the upper part of the page and cut off to the right. I then chose a different driver, i think is was the 550i first, and now i can't print anything, with any driver.

Has anyone got this working for an i450?

LinuxDoc · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 9

Jinidog · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Berlin

Are you using gcc-3.3?
I only could compile this stuff with gcc-3.3.
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LinuxDoc · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 9

ok thx ... that it im using gcc 3.4.3 ...

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