Canon i250 drivers!?!

m1rage · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 82

Hi there,

Been trying to get my Canon i250 working under GNULinux and there doesn't seem to be any drivers for it beside the TurboPrint something which claim it will work but it's not free and the trial version got that annoying little ad for TurboPrint on every page.

Did anyone manage to get this particular printer to work with GNULinux? without the TurboPrint software.

Thanks

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RobMcM · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

Nope, been looking for a while. I just use Turboprint. But the print quality isn't great compared to the Canon Windows drivers. On 300dpi, some lines almost look italic, like its not lining the printing up. In 600dpi it uses too much ink, haven't tried on higher settings.
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Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

There seem to be drivers on the New Zealand website of Canon for the i250 and i255.

Here is the link:
http://www.canon.co.nz/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/i250_drivers.html

The problem is I haven't got them to work under Gentoo

If any of you guys manages to get it to work it would be great if you can post it here.

I'll keep trying as well but I don't have that much time these days.

Some people who actually got it to work said that the quality is very good.
It also has cups support so all we have to do is to get it to work.

y0psolo · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

Well I succeed to install new Zealand canon website drivers from rpm archives.

Heres the ebuild i installed in order to succeed :
rpm2tar
libxml
libpng-1.0.15-r2.ebuild
libglade-0.17-r6.ebuild

There may be more deps but they were already installed on my gentoo.

rpm2tar bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm
rpm2tar bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm

from /
tar xzf bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.tar.gz
tar xzf bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.tar.gz
env-update

Well it's not clean but it work and it's the only way i found as every time i tried to compile from source it failed.

Then start cupsd :
/etc/init.d/cupsd start

Add the i250 printer to cups :
lpadmin -p i250 -m canoni250.ppd -v canon_usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -E
make it the default printer
lpadmin -d i250

Connect to cupsd daemon, configure the printer and try to print the test page and voila !

If someone would be kind enough to do an ebuild on these drivers it would be great.

Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

Thanks for your efforts y0psolo but somehow I still cannot get it to work.

My printer is recognized by the kernel:

imsdunn · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 19

Hi all,
I have a Canon MultiPass MP730. I bought the printer because the quality, speed, and cost of ink cartridges were better than HP. I did this just before installing Gentoo Linux. I am using cupsd and have tried many ppd files with no luck. I recently emailed Canon's support center and asked for some help as well as if they were going to work on support for Linux and Unix. There response was simply that they did not support those sytems and were not going to in the near future. I also made a comment to them that HP and Lexmark support these O/S and that they should. They told me to use what ever product I wanted to. My suggestion to you is to get another brand printer!
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marco86 · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

Hi, i'am an ITALIAN gentoo user, i wuold configur my canon bjc-250, but i don't know how...
i post into Italian furum, here..

can you help me? i emerged only cups for the moment...

sorry for my bad english :oops:

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Squinky86 · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

let's keep the i250 thread i25x-based please

merlin- use the older libpng ebuild or install http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/169581/com/libpng2-1.0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm.html
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elwood73 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 55

http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.canon.general;article=1771

shagpile · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

I was having a lot of difficulties with getting my canon i250 to work however it now works in kde using CUPS

To begin with, I installed the bjfilter-2.3-0.tar.gz from the canon australia website: http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/i250_drivers.html

After copying the i250.ppd file to /usr/share/cups/model/ the printer could be added either through the kde printing "add printer" setup or through the cups configuration at http://localhost:631/

The problem was however that printing a test page, in fact printing ANYTHING would result in nothing happening. Upon inspecting /var/log/cups/error_log it appeared as if the document was printing fine:

I [01/Dec/2005:23:11:13 +1100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonbj (PID 7845) for job 7.
I [01/Dec/2005:23:11:13 +1100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 7846) for job 7.

Except once again nothing was happening. After reading lots of forum posts I tried the solution on this one, to download the rpm's and use rpm2tar to extract them (use bjfilteri250 and bjfiltercups rpm's) . This presented me with an interesting option when adding a printer, there were two usb devices to choose from:

USB Printer #1 (Canon i250)
USB Printer #1 With status readback for Canon BJ (Canon i250)

I had only ever seen the first one, so I chose the 2nd one, selected Make: Canon, Model: Canon i250 ver.2.3 (en) [note a restart of coldplug and cups might be needed once you copy the new i250.ppd driver over or if the printer is not yet turned on]. After that - bam it worked.

Turns out that in one of the rpm's I untarred, it contained a file /usr/lib/cups/backend/canon_usb which was used (see /var/log/cups/error_log) instead of /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb.