Canon all-in-one laser printers

[1clue]

I'm sorry I haven't found anything about authentication yet and I'm not an expert on this. Is there by chance a print server somewhere that runs a mainstream OS?

Or is there an LDAP-based authentication? Or IP-based one? I'm not familiar with your printer, but if a print server can handle the thing you could allow your Linux box by IP address through the domain controller.

[pdc]

this sounds like you need to get into the wonderful world of samba;

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/PrinterSharing

........which I know absolutely nothing about ..

there are folks like swerdna about

http://www.swerdna.net.au/

who know a lot about it

you might be best to start a new thread;

describe your issues there

and perhaps post on the networking forum, as the samba experts are likely there

[1clue]

AND, if your thread has a solution, post a link to it in this thread so the next guy has some place to look.

[xlearner]

Thanks again for the replies.

For authentication, we do not have any samba or LDAP server. The printer has in-built accounts information. When a new user wants to join, then we manually create a username and password for him/her to use.

SO any suggestions on how authentication can be performed from linux as well.

Xleaner

[pdc]

what about selecting the printer driver; from the Admin menu

right-click; select Properties

I enclose a thumbnail of what I find by cursory examination;

I suspect you investigate these areas;

you may need to use google but I suspect an Ubuntu wiki somewhere will help

[vincegata]

Hi guys,

The good news is last night, after reading all posts, I managed to install MF4150 on Ubuntu 12.10, printer runs no problem from Unity, GNOME fallback, and Cinnamon. I had been running 11.04 until now, however support for it expires tomorrow hence I decided to make it straight with Ubuntu or to find another distro. I mixed and matched solutions from this thread and voala. Important difference from the previous suggestions is that I do not create symbolic link. Also, I did not try this on 12.04. I plug my printer though USB.

1. Unplug printer if it's plugged.

2. Download drivers, it's v.2.50 as of today. Note I use US drivers.

3. Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 ia32-libs lib32z1

4. convert drivers rpm package to deb
sudo alien --scripts cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo alien --scripts cndrvcups-ufr2-us-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm

5. Install drivers:
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_2.50-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-ufr2-us_2.50-2_amd64.deb

6. Driver install created new folder /usr/lib64/. Copy it contents into /usr/lib:
sudo cp -r /usr/lib64/* /usr/lib

7. Restart printer service:
sudo service cups restart

8. Plug in printer, you should get a message saying your printer is being added. After that printer should show up in Printers config panel and it should work now.

[morepractice]

Has anyone tried out different ways? I tried all the suggestion on this thread (I think it is the best one out of all the ones I read) and still get a message as follows:
Missing printer driver
No printer drive for Canon D480-D490 (FAX)

I also tried to
*install US/UK version
*copy lib files from the source to lib64 directly (and symlink lib64 in lib)
*use version 1.9 instead of 2.5

[vincegata]

Apparently steps I used for 12.10 do not work with 12.04.

So here are the steps I used with 12.04. Note, I just recompiling the steps already mentioned in this thread.

1. Unplug printer if it's plugged.

2. Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libc6-i386 ia32-libs lib32z1 libjpeg62:i386

3. Reboot.

4. Create symbolic links.
sudo ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib64

5. Download drivers, it's v.2.50 as of today. Note I use US drivers.

6. convert drivers rpm package to deb
sudo alien --scripts cndrvcups-common-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo alien --scripts cndrvcups-ufr2-us-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm

7. Install drivers:
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_2.50-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-ufr2-us_2.50-2_amd64.deb

8. Restart printer service:
sudo service cups restart

9. Plug in printer, I did not get any messages saying your printer is being added, but printer should show up in Printers config panel and it should work now.

[morepractice]

Thanks for your reply. I tried that method too but that also did not work. What is the best way to diagnosis what is going on for cups? Because even when I go to to localhost:621 to add printer via cups, all I get is "
Add Printer Error

Unable to add printer:

Forbidden

Page and I do not see any printer.

[vincegata]

Try to purge the drivers

sudo dpkg -P cndrvcups-ufr2-us
sudo dpkg -P cndrvcups-common
sudo service cups restart

then install the drivers again following those steps. I hope this helps.