Linux Drivers for Canon Printers [from Canon Japan]

s0da · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 11

Hello,

I am using a Canon S600 printer for already two years, but don't use it on my linux box because there's no high quality linux driver for it. Until recently while browsing the web I came accross a forum wherein there's someone using the drivers from Canon Japan. But, unfortunately that user did not post a detailed steps in installing the drivers. I've tried translating the howto from Canon using Babel Fish from altavista but still i can't understand the guide. I'm a complete noob in linux so i ran out of ideas and gave up installing the Printer in my linux box.

AFAIK, the drivers from Canon Japan includes "Status Monitor," "Maintenance Tools, (ie., Cleaning, Nozzle Check, Head Alignment)," and other controls similar to its Windows Driver. Drivers from linuxprinting.org lacks some features so I'm not using it.

Anyone with an idea on how to install the printer using the drivers from Canon Japan? Please post them here. (it may serve as a guide to other user with a Canon printer). Thanks in advance.

I hope there will be an ebuild for Canon Linux Drivers.

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link >>> (in english for your convenience) ^_^
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&url=http%3a%2f%2fcweb.canon.jp%2fdrv-upd%2fbj%2fother.html#english
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*sorry if my english is not good, i am not a native english speaker. also, I am very new to linux so forgive me if some of my terms aren't right. Good Day.

Lore · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject:

Have you tried Turboprint? Im using a Canon S530 with this driver. They also provide a driver for your printer.
http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

s0da · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 11

Turboprint? I have encoutered that on forums, but everyone's saying it's a commercial software. There are features which can't be used unless u pay them for a license. IMHO, Turboprint don't have "Status Monitor" for my Canon printer, and some other tools which are only provided by the drivers from Canon.

Anyways, Turboprint is much better than the drivers from linuxprinting.org.

Thanks for the advice.

MrPixel · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject:

I don't know how the translation turned out ... but I can read Japanese.

Since you're posting here, I'll assume you're using Gentoo ... so download the source files (the three files at bottom) - the first three are documentation, and the middle files are RPMs for RedHat or TurboLinux (sorta like the Japanese version of RedHat), and probably won't work with Gentoo. They come in gzipped tarballs - that is, they are compressed. You'll need to unpack them:

s0da · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 11

Thanks for posting... I downloaded four files from Canon Japan, but I did not try to install it. Yeah, i got the right ones, the tar.gz files. These are the files: bjfilter-1.3-1.tar.gz, instruction-1.3-1.tar.gz, printui-1.3-1.tar.gz, stsmon-1.3-1.tar.gz.

I wish someone would translate the documentation in instruction-1.3-1.tar.gz, so I can play with the drivers... ^_^

Good day and keep posting... :lol:

roo_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 91

Turboprint _is_ commericial, but its also well worth it.

I bought a copy after messing around for months with linuxprinting and canon drivers from japan. I have a Canon i550 which is a high spec printer, and was getting nothing from it.

Buying Turboprint took me 10minutes and I havent looked back..

I dont work for Turboprint in case you're wondering! I just thought i would let you know that the 25 Euros is a VERY reasonable price for what is a remarkable piece of software.

HTH

MrPixel · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject:

ennservogt · n00b Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 32

I own a Canon i865. The filter driver from Canon was very easy to install. you just have to download the approriate files from the japanese FTP server and extract the contents of the rpm archives to the right places.

There are allready several guides around the web which describe the installation process better.

tuxfan · Apprentice Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 257

I have tried to install this driver for my canon s600, but I am not able to get this running. There are no errors when I run ./autogen.sh, make, make install.
But if I try to run the bjs600ps script, it say invalid printer model.
So what get's wrong?

Additional I found a port on FreeBSD, but I don't able to understand that.

Has anyone sucessfully installed this driver?