Canon MF4100 wont print.

[vasilenko93]

I installed the driver from the official website (64-bit version) and Ubuntu detected and added the printer right away. Also I am able to use SimpleScan with the printer, so it is connected and works. But when I try to print something the print queue says "Stopped - Printer configuration error" and the printer state becomes "Idle - File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca" not available: No such file or directory"

Driver link http://support-au.canon.com.au/conte...100270808.html

Any thoughts, ideas?

[pdc]

this post offers an answer.......

https://phpraxis.wordpress.com/2012/...-ubuntu-linux/

........ you need a symbolic link to tell your system where to the find the missing file

sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca

[vasilenko93]

The error is gone, however printing is not back. Now the printer state always says "Idle - Sending data to printer."

[pdc]

there are recurrent issues with 64bit systems; and printers;

some options:
1) install a 32bit system; see no difference in speed etc and have the printer working well
2) stick with 64bit and attempt to resolve: this wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems is something to work through; there seem no easy options; we would all love to give the immediate answer; apart from a 32bit system......... there doesn't seem to be one.....I guess one could run a 32bit system as a virtual install inside a 64bit..........

[speedygarth]

Try A native 64-bit driver package is now available!

• The only real solution is to install the native 64-bit drivers, but unfortunately Canon only provides 32-bit DEB packages.
  
• After a lot of experimentation and a borrowed Canon MF4350dn all-in-one, I've managed to build the drivers and get them to work. They are available in a PPA.

How to install:

• Important: you must first install the libxml2:i386 package (which pulls in the 32-bit libc6 and zlib packages which are also needed). This manual step is necessary because the alternative is to force people to install the 250 MB+ ia32-libs package.
  
• Start by opening a terminal and typing:
  
  sudo apt-get install libxml2:i386
• Add the PPA with:
  
  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:auanswers/canon64
• Update with sudo apt-get update
  
• Install the North American version:
  
  sudo apt-get install cndrvcups-ufr2-usor the European version
  
  sudo apt-get install cndrvcups-ufr2-uk
• Make sure your printer's device in Settings...Printing is the cnusb: device:
  
  

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Help! I got a warning, installation failed, now what!?

This just means you forgot to install the i386 dependencies. Type sudo apt-get install libc:i386 zlib1g:i386 libxml2:i386, and then try again with sudo apt-get install cndrvcups-ufr2-us (or -uk) these steps

[Frank_Rotte]

I'm really having trouble with this. I downloded the drivers from Canon, but I'm just not getting this. If someone could post step by step from Canon download to the end, I would really appreciate it. Total newb, but trying. Thanks.

[pdc]

which version of ubuntu are you using please;

32 or 64bit?

have you downloaded the UFR 2.8 driver?

eg from here

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100270810.html

[Frank_Rotte]

12.04 LTS 64bit I'll download that driver now

[Frank_Rotte]

I installed UFR 2.8 driver. But it said I need to uninstall ufr2-uk and ufr2-us first. How do I uninstall?

[pdc]

If you copy and paste this command

sudo dpkg -l | grep cndrvcups

...........can you copy and paste back here what the result is .....

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to delete the UFR the commands are

sudo dpkg -P cndrvcups-common

and then

sudo dpkg -P cndrvcups-ufr2

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Canon have now issued a 2.8 for the UFR:

if one downloads that to a Downloads directory the command would be

cd Downloads

tar -zxvf Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V280_uk_EN.tar.gz

cd Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V280_uk_EN/64-bit_Driver/Debian

sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_2.80-1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_2.80-1_amd64.deb

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