HOWTO: Canon iXXX series printers

[punkass]

For anyone who has a Canon i550 or similar.

Steps to get your printer up and running...and printing nicely.

1. Get the correct drivers from here: ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
(they cover i550, i560, i850,i860,i950, i990)

You need:
bjfilterpixusXXXi-X.X-X.i386.rpm
AND the corresponding cups driver:
bjfiltercups-X.X-X.i386.rpm

2. use alien to convert the rpms to debs (apt-get install alien if you dont have it)
$ sudo alien <rpm package>

3. $dpkg -i bjfilterpixusXXXi_X.X-X.i386.deb
$dpkg -i bjfiltercups-X.X-X.i386.deb

4. $apt-get install libtiff3g
$apt-get install libpng2

5. Then use the gnome gui for adding a new printer
System > System Settings > Printing
And you will now see your new driver in the list as PIXUS XXXi verX.X

6. And thats it, happy high quality printing from your canon.

Update:

Well I just tried this on my laptop with Feisty and the drivers still work fine.
Step 4 has to be changed to libtiff4 and libpng3 but other than that, everything should work.

[drmagoo]

Thanks for the how-to. Which repository/where can I find libtiff3g?
apt-get yields: E: Couldn't find package libtiff3g

magoo

[punkass]

no prob.

libtiff3g is in the universe repository, on a side note i am using hoary, but since libtiff3g is an old package it should be there for warty to.

hope that helps.

[neshaug]

I`ve done everything you said and everything worked out without any errors. The only problem is that the driver does not get listed... Neither can I find the ppd or ppd.gz file for it.

[kuleali]

Thank's this helped .

[krash]

Will this work when the printer is shared on a Windows machine?
I got the thing installed and the PIXUS-560i is there and ready in the printers config, but nothing happens when I print.

[javamdk]

Originally Posted by neshaug I`ve done everything you said and everything worked out without any errors. The only problem is that the driver does not get listed... Neither can I find the ppd or ppd.gz file for it.

You may need to restart cups daemon. You can do this in number of ways, I normally do the following:

sudo killall cupsd <-- terminate cupsd
sudo /user/sbin/cupsd  <-- starts cupsd back

Load the Printer GUI and it should show. This will also help refresh your printer if it's connected but CUPS doesn't recognize it.

[songzi]

I've installed my i950 successfully, but have the following problems:
1. I cannot print files with Adobe Reader and i950
2. In OpenOffice Wordprocessor, the default page paper format was set to A5 and cannot be reset to A4.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[manxego]

Could you send me Canon-i560.ppd driver please?
manxego@gmail.com

[woland]

I have i550
At first I struggled to intall the pixus driver (i550), followed the guide but at the end the driver wanst listed. I tried again the next day and the list refreshed, so I was able to install it with this driver. The test page worked out fine, but most of the programs wouldn't print, including xpdf firefox thunderbird and so, ooo would print in A5 setting and be stuck there. The only programs that would print are kpdf (intalled it becouse of this bug) and gedit.
Changed it to bjc7000 and it works fine for all the listed programs, at least for now.