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

Sohryu Asuka Langley

[Edited the turorial / now it should work ! ]

Got it working with original Canon Drivers from Japan !

JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!! :lol:

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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject:

Maybe i will make an ebuild for the drivers... Cause it was not easy to integrate them !

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think4urs11 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject:

so please be so kind and write a little howto for the rest of us with this printer

pleeeeaaase

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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject:

I will do it tomorrow !

Cause we have it 01:35 o'clock and i must got to university tomorrow morning and will get back at 22:00 !

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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject:

Ok here the "little" tutorial !

1. Download "ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/bjfilterpixus550i-2.2-0.i386.rpm"

2. rpm2targz bjfiltercups-2.2-0.i386.rpm

3. Now untar it in your home directory !

4. The extracted files are put in an home/yourname/usr directory...

5. Delete the last numbers on the files in the directory home/yourname//usr/lib

example:

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libcnbpcmcm154.so.5.71.2 -> libcnbpcmcm154.so

6. Now copy the folowing files in your home/yourname/usr into the appropriate directory as following :

/home/yourname/usr/lib/*.* -> /usr/lib
mkdir /usr/lib/bjilib
/home/yourname/usr/lib/bjilib/*.* -> /usr/lib/bjilib
/home/yourname/usr/local/bin/*.* -> /usr/local/bin

7. go into /usr/lib and do the following:

ls libpng*

there should be a libpng.so.3
if there is a libpng.so.2 you don't need to do the following:
if there is no libpng then you should emerge libpng

then do: ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2

8. Download the file ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/bjfiltercups-2.2-0.i386.rpm

9. rpm2targz bjfiltercups-2.2-0.i386.rpm

10. extract bjfiltercups-2.2-0.i386.tar.gz

11. copy /home/yourname/usr/share/cups/model/*.* -> /usr/share/cups/model

12. copy /home/yourname//usr/lib/cups/filter/*.* -> /usr/lib/cups/filter

13. copy /home/yourname/usr/lib/cups/backend/*.* -> /usr/lib/cups/backend

now restart your cups and configure your printer like said in the doc on www.gentoo.org
but not the foomatic thing ! We now have a working driver...

If you still have questions... ASK !!! Ah nearly forgot to say that you can only print in 600dpi... But Hey !!! We can print !

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think4urs11 · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject:

hmmm

in the downloaded file are no lib* files?!?

All whats in there is this

so your step 5 seems to be not nessessary and i'm afraid it wont work here because of missing files :cry:

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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

what have more than bjc 7100 drivers from linuxprinting?

dook43 · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

This is leet. I have an i850 (LOVE IT) and am forced to use Windows ATM.
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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:58 am Post subject:

Sorry !!! Corrected the downloadable file !

My mistake ! geeeh !
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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:05 am Post subject:

Sorry ... it was late... you also need the bjfiltercups... there are the drivers in there !
So copy the files into your /usr directory... then it should work !

Have to do all the steps in memory of what i have done... so i forgot some things !!!

I will edit the tutroial !!!
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Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 12:22 pm Post subject:

Is it working like i described ?
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gophix · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Köln

i still did all mentioned in this tutorial. and it seems to work good - there is only one problem: my canon didn't print any sheet. I get no errors, nothing that tells me that something is wrong or what is wrong.
When i start "print test page" in CUPS, all seems to be perfect. then i show for completed jobs:

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject:

you could try to change in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf the logging level from info to debug and then post your /var/log/cups/error_log

then i will tell you what you have done wrong or i have done wrong in my tutrorial !

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gophix · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 10 Location: Köln

these are the logs since i changing info to debug

and restarted the cupsd

xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

so far I'm printing on my I550 through the bjc7100 drivers as suggested by linuxprinting org, achieving up to 600x600 resolution and having the following configuration options:

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 3:28 pm Post subject:

I think you have chosen the wrong device... cause your log files says:

D [11/Oct/2003:03:11:32 +0200] LoadDevices: Added device "usb://Canon/i550"...

it should be usb://dev/usb/lp0

so change your device in cups... there are two...

one with canon feedback - the printer gives information to your computer... thats the wrong one...

check the other Canon Usb USB1 or so...

then go to command line and type as root...

/etc/init.d/cupsd restart

that solved the problem for me !

@xylz

The solution to take the BJC7100 Printer Driver is mentioned on linuxprinting as a solution cause nobody had a driver for canon i series printer... the differnces... i don't know...
It's just the wrong driver but it's working ! I remember there was some issue with the correct size or adjustment of the print ?!
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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

installed canon drivers

they are just less configurable than my previous one (bjc7100)

(among the others missing draft mode, 300x300 resolution, saturation)

going back

may be you would like to try 7100 drivers as well

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

I will try them...

Where are they in !?

emerge Gimp-print ????
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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

I suppose so

I remember I just followed gentoo docs.

BTW I did some print tests. In cups "printer test page" Canon drivers show a higher quality result (colors are more saturated, black is blacker, and I suppose ink consumption is higher :wink:

). 7100 driver, as said, is more configurable. Having both seems to be the best solution, as switching is as easy as clicking "modify printer" in your printer administration page in cups and choose the other one from the list

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:19 pm Post subject:

Oh cool ! I will try it...

First reason... it's not that difficult to integrate ! SIGH ! :lol:

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AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject:

ok downloaded the ppd file from linuxprinting.com and i must say it's working great, but it's only half the speed of the canon i550 driver and the colo urs don't look that nice...

[Update]
Ok managed like to look the same as the canon drivers... increased the density to 1.5 !

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xlyz · Veteran Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1470 Location: Italy

Sohryu Asuka Langley · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:16 pm Post subject:

Just select the printer in your application under printer-settings... like in gimp or openoffice...
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