All Cannon Printer Driver (LBP3200)

[rajamohan]

This article describe installing cannon CAPT driver by compiling from source

The details ment here are for 64Bit Ubuntu 9.10 System Karmic Kola and LBP3200 printer. I had complied this article from the reference below

If Possible switch Off the Printer until we complete installation of driver this may avoid auto installation of the driver after we complete the steps.

Ref 1:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6134355&postcount=2

Ref 2:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters/CanonPrinters/Canon_LBP_2900#Compiling%20the%20driver%20%28amd64%29%20Steps:

Use Case

1. Compile Cannon Driver from latest source
2. Install Compiled Driver
3. Automate loading the CAPT demon

Files to Download

Cannon Linux Printer Driver (CAPT) Source

http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0900772411.html

libcupsys2.deb

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty-updates/all/libcupsys2/download

This is a dummy package installing it will solve dependancy issue installing capt-common package

Note: Deb Packages can be directly installed by right clicking it and selecting option open with “GDebi Package Installer”

Step1 - Installing the Required packages to compile the driver

Install following packages before start compiling (Some Package may report already installed such case leave as such and contiune installing others)

Install Debian package development tools
Install libcupsys2 Download the deb from here

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty-updates/all/libcupsys2/download

Install The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development files)
Install helper programs for debian/rules
Install automatic configure script builder
Install Development files for the GLib library
Install Development files for the GTK+ library
Install A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool
Install library for common error values and messages in GnuPG components
Install Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Development files CUPS library
Install Development files for the GNOME XML library

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libstdc++6-4.4-dev
sudo apt-get install debhelper
sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libltdl-dev
sudo apt-get install libgpg-error-dev
sudo apt-get install libcups2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

Step2 – Unpacking the Source

tar xfz CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_Src_V190_uk_EN.tar.g z
cd CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_Src_V190_uk_EN/Src/
tar xfz cndrvcups-common-1.90-1.tar.gz
tar xfz cndrvcups-capt-1.90-1.tar.gz

Step3 – Compiling cndrvcups-common-1.90-1

cd cndrvcups-common-1.90
gedit ./debian/control

Change “Architecture: i386” to “Architecture: amd64” save and close editor

dpkg-buildpackage

The debian package cndrvcups-common_1.90-1_amd64.deb will be placed in CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_Src_V190_uk_EN/Src

Step4 – Installing cndrvcups-common_1.90-1_amd64.deb

This package need to be installed before starting the next step compiling the cndrvcups-capt source depends some library from cndrvcups-common

cd ..
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.90-1_amd64.deb

Step5 – Compiling & Installing cndrvcups-capt-1.90-1

cd cndrvcups-capt-1.90
gedit ./debian/control

Change “Architecture: i386” to “Architecture: amd64” save and close editor

gedit ./debian/rules

Comment the option dh_shlibdeps by adding “#” at the start of the line It should look like as below after editing

#     dh_shlibdeps

save and close editor

dpkg-buildpackage

The debian package cndrvcups-capt_1.90-1_amd64.deb will be placed in CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_Src_V190_uk_EN/Src

sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt_1.90-1_amd64.deb

Now our cannon driver is installed and ready to configure

Step6 – Editing the startup script for starting CAPT daemon

I had modified the ccpd startup script to make it little polished

#!/bin/sh
# startup script for Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS (ccpd)
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux


DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ccpd
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/ccpd
NAME=ccpd
DESC="Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

ccpd_start ()
{
    log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --exec ${DAEMON}
        log_end_msg $?
}

ccpd_stop ()
{
        log_begin_msg "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --signal 15 --exec ${DAEMON}
        log_end_msg $?
}


case $1 in

    start)
        ccpd_start
        ;;
        
    stop)
        ccpd_stop
        ;;
    
    status)
            echo "$DESC: $NAME:" `pidof $NAME`
        ;;
    
    restart)
            log_begin_msg "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        ccpd_stop
            sleep 2
        ccpd_start
            log_end_msg $?
        ;;
    
    *)
            echo "Usage: ccpd {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit 0

Lets us start editing the script

cd /etc/init.d
sudo cp ccpd ccpd-old
sudo gedit ccpd

delete all existing content and replace with the above script, save and close the editor

Step7 – Setting the printer for CUPS

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart
sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP3200 -P /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSLBP3200CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E

This will add printer LBP3200

Step8 – Setting the printer for CAPT

sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP3200 -o /dev/usb/lp0

This will add printer LBP3200 to the CAPT monitor (daemon)

Step9 – Automating CAPT while booting the system

sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 50

Edit*
We are using 50 which means the ccpd is one the the last daemons to start This point is noted by notlistening, TommyBoy


Step10 – Finalisation

Now we are done all setting now its time to switch on our printer. Connect your printer and power on. As soon as the printer is connected Ubuntu auto install a new driver for our printer and make it as default printer.

Now our final step is to chage our set printer to default and disable the auto installed printer (Note: do not delete the printer auto installed by Ubuntu, since Ubuntu will reinstall the printer again after a restart so its better to disable it or leave it as is)

Steps to change default Printer

Select

System->Administrator->Printing

This will list all the printer installed, right click the printer named LBP3200 and select (click) Set Us Default

Right click the auto installed printer by Ubuntu (LBP3200-2) and uncheck Enabled.

Now we are complete Lets Restart the computer.

“Success“ our printer is now ready to print, “Happy Computing”

I thank the community by creating this thread

[notlistening]

This line causes me issues:

sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 20

I had to modify this for Karmic to stop ccpd from not starting correctly at boot and using 100% of one CPU :

sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 50

Jaunty was another story found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...inters/LBP3010

[rajamohan]

[quote=notlistening;8252343]This line causes me issues:

sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 20

I had to modify this for Karmic to stop ccpd from not starting correctly at boot and using 100% of one CPU :

sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 50

Thanks notlistening, I had updated the content as pointed by you

[Claritux]

I'm trying to apply this for the LBP5050 by following this guide (of course, using "LBP5050" instead of "LBP3200" in the commands). The setup worked fine for me, I've followed the whole guide without problems, but when I run

captstatusui -P LBP5050

I get an error saying "Check the DevicePath of /etc/ccpd.conf" and I'm not able to print. Any solution to this?

[Claritux]

BTW, here's my /etc/ccpd.conf

# Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS Configuration Data

<Path>
# CUPS configuration file path.
#  Default  /etc/cups/

CUPS_ConfigPath   /etc/cups/

# Log directory path.
#  LogDirectoryPath /var/log/CCPD/

</Path>

# Printer entries.
#  Mapping each "Printer Name" to each "Printer Device Port".
#  The "Printer Name" has to be identical to the CUPS printer queue name.
#  
#  For example, if you prepare a printer named "LBP3200" as a CUPS printer
#  queue name, and the printer is connected to the USB port "/dev/usb/lp0",
#  you can use the following three lines example just by removing the
#  comment symbol "#" of each line.
#<Printer  LBP3200>
#DevicePath  /dev/usb/lp0
#</Printer>

<Printer LBP5050>
DevicePath /dev/usb/lp0
</Printer>

<Ports>
# Status monitoring socket port.
#  Default 59787
UI_Port  59787
</Ports>

[spodesabode]

Just trying this now.

FYI - the link to the Canon Source should be :

http://support-au.canon.com.au/conte...900772502.html

The one you have is for the pre-compiled driver.

Interestingly - the UK support page doesn't have 1.9 - only 1.8!

UPDATE:

Yes, this worked a charm. Although in reality - I think all I needed was the new version 1.9 drivers - as I'm on 32Bit - I'm not sure I needed to compile from source...

[rajamohan]

Dear akshov,

If all went well, the issue might due to auto detected printer driver, please check you had done the last step, setting the default printer, and also check if there is any printjob pending in the auto detect printer, I had this issue when I had a printjob in the auto select printer and every time I switch on the printer.

Hope this solve your issue

Rajamohan

[bayvista]

Hi,

I have found the DOC for installing the drivers, but is online (HTML) When I try to print it, all I get is the first page. Do you know how to print the whole Users Guide? I am using Firefox.

[kyosti.huhtala]

I have LBP5050 with Ubuntu 9.10 on an AMD64.system. I think I have closely followed the instructions above but still with no success.

A simple 3 lines ascii files stays in queue with status "processing". If I abort it, the properties window shows "Can't open FIFO: Interrupted system call".

Any suggestions?

[merlyn]

Mate, I've given up on Ubuntu these days and moved over pure Debian.

But for the life of me could I get my printer working?

When using Ubuntu in the past I used a much older more complicated Howto, that never failed me until recently.

Your guide along with the input of others is so much better presented, less steps, and works.

Cheers.