HOWTO: Canon iXXX series printers

[echoz]

Used the suggested BJC-7000 drivers and it work fine.

Would love to use the native canon drivers though.

[pelikan]

Used the suggested BJC-7000 drivers and it work fine.

Would love to use the native canon drivers though.

Thanks for mentioning this. This guide didn't work for me. But I tried the BJC-7000 drivers on my i850 and they worked!

[Seth]

Thanks for mentioning this. This guide didn't work for me. But I tried the BJC-7000 drivers on my i850 and they worked!

I too use the 7000 drivers for my i560. Works fine.

[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.

[vague-]

I too use the 7000 drivers for my i560. Works fine.

Which set of BJC-7000 drivers do you use? (I appear to have two). The GimpPrint version seems to print very aliased, the other without using black whenever it uses another colour. That is printing from Firefox (1.0.2).

[godot67]

krash, echoz > try to run: bjfilterpixusXXXi (from command line) and see if you get an error message.
If you get something like this : "bjfilterpixus860i: error while loading shared libraries: libcnbpcmcm187.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" then update your system by typing "ldconfig" as root

[echoz]

krash, echoz > try to run: bjfilterpixusXXXi (from command line) and see if you get an error message.
If you get something like this : "bjfilterpixus860i: error while loading shared libraries: libcnbpcmcm187.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" then update your system by typing "ldconfig" as root

I got the following.

BJLSTART
ControlMode=Common
SetTime=20050429094207
BJLEND


[godot67]

I got the following.

BJLSTART
ControlMode=Common
SetTime=20050429094207
BJLEND


I'm not at home, so I can't check, but I think I get something similar, which means your problem is probably elsewhere.

Before installing the pixus driver, I had the BJC 8200 driver working for my i865 (but when I printed, the position on the page was not that good). You can compare this one to the BJC 7000. Don't sure it's better, just in case.

[Seth]

Which set of BJC-7000 drivers do you use? (I appear to have two). The GimpPrint version seems to print very aliased, the other without using black whenever it uses another colour. That is printing from Firefox (1.0.2).

The gimp-print ones seem to work fine for me.