new repository for a FEW canon printer drivers

[degsyw]

thx slimdog works a treat ....... i have a full colour test page anyway! first though i did make sure i removed all old method with libpng2, libtiff3g and the downloaded rpm's as the install reported some files already in place. the old method was a complete failure on edgy ubuntu fully updated for my canon i950

degsyw

[unni]

Thank you very very much slimdog360. I had been looking for a driver for my Canon Pixma IP1000 for over two months, till I finally gave up. Today, when I accidentally saw this thread, I had no hope. But guess what, it works remarkably fine. I can easily print B/W documents with my Pixma IP1000. I haven't tried any colour prints as I don't have colour ink. But I have three problems:
1. Since I don't use colour ink, how do I specify cups to do only B/W printing. I saw an option with 'RGB' as value in printer driver settings. But I can't change that.
2. Is there any management tool for Canon printers? What I am looking for is a way to send command to clean the printer, like the one available in Windows Canon driver?
3.This is the most important. Since my printer has a lot of wear and tear (possibly due to constant refilling), I can't get good printing unless the print quality is set to highest (In the Windows driver, there are atleast three options - highest, normal & fastest). But with this driver, I think the quality level is equivalent to the 'normal' option in Windows driver. Is there any way to change it? Is it related to the dpi? Mine is currently at 600 dpi. I can't change that value even as root.

[slimdog360]

I dont really know much about the drivers I just found them one day and decided to share but you can try whacking http://127.0.0.1:631/ into firefox and try to configure cups that way.

[slimdog360]

okay, for some reason after installing xubuntu the drivers now work flawlessly with my canon ip3000, no slow down, no dodgy colours, no nothing. The driver doesnt support the auto duplexing but all I have to do is print off every second page then turn the pages around and print on the other side. Not much hassle at all. Fantastic.

[slimdog360]

Just to let everyone know, once feisty comes out this will be old news but anyway. Feisty seems to support heaps more canon printers. My canon ip3000 now works perfectly, auto-duplexing and all. This is under feisty.

[exactopposite]

i was able to get the canon (ip3000) working with no problem in fedora before using the info from this link (http://tinyurl.com/37lb8f) but with ubuntu the colors were off. i have an epson printer that works great with linux, but the canon is a better printer, so it would be great to get it working in ubuntu

[jitsu]

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and I have a Canon Pixma 3000.

Today I tried to download the trial driver from Turboprint. I saved it to my desktop and tried unsuccessfully to open it.

Got the following message:
Could not open 'turboprint 1.95-2_i386(2).deb'

Package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file.



What do I have to do free trial driver for Pixma 3000.


I'm trying to learn, but maybe I better ask for help.


thanks

[criskat777]

Thanks for the heads up i had this printer on standby since i started full time use of Ubuntu on my main PC. What i really like about this printer is the price of it's ink cartridges $1.75 Black $3.25 Color , simply un real. And yes US Dollars. I had tried other posts but never got it working before.