Printing and Scanning with Canon Pixma/Pixus Series

Massimo B. · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:52 pm Post subject:

Currently the cnijfilter with bjnp connection claims, the printer has no paper. Using Gutenprint over bjnp is the same, but Gutenprint over old lpd://printer/queue works fine. I tried restarting all, printer, cupsd and the complete host. Printing to the printer using some Canon driver on Android works fine. So I guess this is an issue of bjnp? Using lpd is just very slow for each page. Any idea?
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Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:40 am Post subject:

tclover,

Having now migrated my installation to abi_x86_32 multilib instead of emul-linux-x86-* multilib, I decided to try the ebuild cnijfilter-3.20.ebuild in your overlay. I had to make some small changes to get it to install and work for my PIXMA MP560:

Small_Penguin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 146

cnij-filters-2.70 needs gtk+:1 only for its servicetools. You can use "ink" as a replacement to see the ink level, though I don't know about replacements for the other maintenance functions. You won't need these if you print regularly, but maybe wine or a parallel install of windows can get you these.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:57 pm Post subject:

You're right, Small_Penguin. I managed to merge tclover's slotted ebuild cnijfilter-2.70.ebuild[abi_x86_32] with USE="-gtk -servicetools". However, I could not get the driver to print to the PIXMA MP510, whatever the setting of USE flags drivers and backends, and the PIXMA MP560 would no longer print until I re-merged the modified ebuild cnijfilter-3.20.ebuild I posted earlier today. So I have reverted to the Gutenprint driver for the MP510. As the MP560 is my main printer at home, that's fine.
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cmprior · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2011 Posts: 58

Hi

I too am having problems with multilib. I have Pixma MG5250 and it worked fine until I updated the system. I had to remove cnijfilter to get everything else to update. Now I cannot re-install. I need 3.40 of the driver and there does not seem to be a valid ebuild in any overlay. Can someone please help.

I have tried to use the gutenprint driver and am getting all black pages and cannot afford to print too many more pages !!

Thanks

Chris Prior

tclover · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Posts: 516

@fitzcarraldo: I don't see any difference... you could have highlighted the change and used unified output to simplify reading. Giving up... or else, you can help by opening an issue and providing the change on the ticket or else make it stand out. You've obviously changed the order and name of the patches... but the diffs are same like the previous patches. What are the changes again?

NOTE: 2.70 should work... my printer that used to use this ebuild almost died and refuse to print anything, it's just printing empty pages... it seems to be CHNAGE PRINTER BECAUSE THIS ONE IS OLD(tm). Not changing anything atm especially Cannon(tm) one.

@cmprior: You might try my overlay because it has a cnijfilter-3.40 with multilib support. Good luck.
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cmprior · n00b Joined: 03 Sep 2011 Posts: 58

Hi tclover

Thanks for the overlay information. I am now getting a failure for emerge.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject:

tclover, your patch cnijfilter-3.10-1-libdl.patch to cnijfilter-source-3.20-1/cngpijmon/cnijnpr/cnijnpr/Makefile.am looks like this:

carlosalvatore · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 13

Hi, there!

The usb rule was enough for me to make the printer visible by CUPS.

Yet, in my case the usb vendor and product id was: 04a9:1746
The printer-scanner model is Canon MP-280.

carlosalvatore · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Posts: 13

Hi again,

scanner worked right by emerging sane-backends and xsane. I set SANE_BACKENDS="pixma" at /etc/portage/make.conf in order to add support for Canon MP-series

Then I added the vendor:product_id to /etc/sane.d/pixma.conf

Klaus Meier · Advocate Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 2908 Location: Bozen

In the next days I receive a canon pixma mx925. I think, scanning is no problem with SANE_BACKENDS="pixma".

And for printing I tried the cnijfilter-3.90 form the baar-overlay. I emerge it on this was: net-print/cnijfilter-3.90:3::bar USE="backends doc drivers gtk net servicetools usb -debug" ABI_X86="(64) -32" CANON_PRINTERS="mx920 -e660 -mx390 -mx450 -mx520 -mx720"

I get the following error :

tclover · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2011 Posts: 516

Klaus Meier · Advocate Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 2908 Location: Bozen

Yes, everything works fine now.

papu · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 6:38 pm Post subject:

hi i am using gutenprint with my mg5550 , it works buy quality of color is not much good not like windows.

i am trying with net-print/cnijfilter-4.10-r2 but seems not suport for my printer, then i use the canonmg5500.ppd from of cnijfilter-source-4.00-1.tar.gz, it seems ok but then not detection of printer and have to return to gutenprint again.

the printer is working but at low quality

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mfld-fr · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2017 Posts: 1

Hello there,

Long discussions about this topic in many locations, many patches, many overlays, many repositories, etc, but at the end, no integration at all in the official Gentoo repository since more than 10 years now, despite valuable proposals, tries and fixes in this forum, Bugzilla or Github.

Candid question: what is still going wrong to get support of our Canon printers in the mainstream ?

I opened a PR on Github to add the 3.80 patched version as an official package (because my printer is an IP7250). I sourced from the Sabayon overlay as a first step, and I am considering merging from other sources, like the Bar overlay (thanks to tclover !).

Anyone interested in that mainstream integration could help by reviewing the PR:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5595

If this PR is accepted, then we could submit others to upgrade the common part up to 4.10 (net-print/cnijfilter package), and to consolidate the printer model specific parts from 3.80 to 4.10 (net-print/cnijfilter-drivers package).

That work has already been performed in many overlays, or in many repositories targeting other distributions, so we just have to cherry pick. The only non-obvious task is to list the printer models that are needed at that time, to avoid wasting our time.

Massimo B. · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:14 pm Post subject:

Hi, again I don't get that Canon Pixma MX920 working.
I installed USE="-abi_x86_32" emerge -autv net-print/cnijfilter from bar Overlay, wasn't building without that use flag. The broadcast for new network printers did find the device as cnijnet:/F4-81-39-95-AE-2C, but I got in the cups error log: "cannot load library(336)"
The PPD file I extracted from http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100517002.html
So what did I do wrong here?

The only combination I got working is lpd://printer/queue and the Gutenprint driver. But afaik the lpd:// is the old protocol and not recommended? And it is very slow here when printing.
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destroyedlolo · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:18 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I'm trying to install our new Canon Pixma MG4250 ...
So I installed net-print/cnijfilter as bellow

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 10:08 pm Post subject:

destroyedlolo,

I'm curious why you decided to install net-print/cnijfilter-4.10-r2. That version of the package does not have printer-model USE flags -- none of which you appear to have enabled, by the way -- relevant to your model (MG4250). I'm not sure about the ebuilds in the bar overlay, but my guess is that cnijfilter-3.80-r2.ebuild would be more appropriate for the MG4250 model, as it has a USE flag "mg4200", so you could try:

destroyedlolo · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:07 pm Post subject:

Oups, you're right.

Unfortunately, it won't compile :

mederel · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2015 Posts: 3

I don't know if it will help anyone but I have used the ebuild from gentoo-zh overlay and adapted it to build v2.20 of the scanner driver (ScanGear MP) from Canon. I works quite well, using Gimp and the Gimp plugin.

https://github.com/mederel/mederel-overlay/tree/master/media-gfx/scangearmp

Versions I have of dependencies:
- gimp 2.9.8
- gtk+ 2.24.31-r1 and 3.22.19
- virtual/libusb 0-r2 and 1-r2

Only problem it is that the output does not respect Gentoo guidelines obviously. I can see a lot of error messages or warnings. Also by ldconfig that the lib produced are not symlinks.

I am a bit lost to be honest and I do not know how to clean the ebuild. Has anyone any idea how to make things better?[/list]

destroyedlolo · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:55 pm Post subject:

Well ... finally I got cnijfilter installed.

When the ebuild is falling, I copy libraries manually :

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22694

As I understand your message, you also set yourself up for file collisions going forward. You should fix the ebuild and let it install the files through Portage, so that they are tracked properly.

destroyedlolo · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:35 am Post subject:

Hi Hu,

First of all, I need to be able to print : for the moment, I solved to compilation issues as well as CUPS error, but nothing is printed as per the test I did yesterday.

Anyway, I'm not enough confident with ebuild processes to solved this : probably a patch has to be done in makefiles as it's mostly a linking path issue.

Bye

Laurent

MrBrutico · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2015 Posts: 53

Hello I'm trying to install from the ebuild http://gpo.zugaina.org/AJAX/Ebuild/22477475/Viewand I get this error.
My printer is from the mx920 series