Printer Canon Pixma ip1800 Support

[caish5]

I have recently brought one, and its not working with fiesty. Does anyone have any ideas, solutions etc.

Thanks

Andy

[caish5]

Shameless Bump!

[bung33]

I've having the same problem too, but I'll Google it a little bit more and post a solution if I can find one...

[bung33]

I found this link... http://gentoo-wiki.com/Canon_Pixma_Series. I know it's targeted for the Gentoo platform, but I figured that someone more experienced than I could figure out how to get the same concept working in Ubuntu. I'll take another look at it after work, and post again if I can finally get it working...

[caish5]

Yeah i found that too. But i'm not THAT familar with linux.
Hopefully someone will come up with something soon, it's a pain having to shuffle files onto my windows pc every time i need to do a printout.

[caish5]

Ok a little more investigating has led me to...

http://www.canon.com.au/products/pri...0_support.aspx

where there are linux drivers for opensuse and fedora. I've tried installing them with alien and it looked like it worked but still no printing.

Can anyone help?

Thanks
Andy

[icampana]

I downloaded the drivers from the Australian Canon website, tweaking it a little bit with alien and repackaging the driver I got it working on Ubuntu (Feisty), it even has a configuration tool. It needs a lot of patience till you get it right.

If anyone wants the driver, please let me know, I don't have a website right now to make it public, but at least I could send it through e-mail. I tried to upload it here, but there is a size limit restriction, the driver is 1.8Mb



Once the drivers are installed you should add the printer through the regular cups configuration, just make sure that you select the proper port (it creates a new one), it should appear as "USB Printer #1 with status readback for Canon IJ"

[1467]

send me the drivers plz.

my email is page1467@hotmail.com

[Pixtu]

Hi icampana,

Can you offer any more detail on the tweaking and 'patience' part of your solution. I have been having a similar problem with a Canon iP4300 and think I am close, the jobs get created in the print queue but don't actually print.

I have used Canon drivers from the Australian site, run them through alien to get deb packages and installed these. I can see the printer in System/Administration/Printing and can set up a new printer using the Canon USB (readback) device.

I am assuming that I am either mising a file/link or maybe its a permission problem.

[exetera]

hi icampana,
can you send me your driver please??
My mail address is ninni.crisafi@gmail.com.

Do you know if it works with ubuntu dapper too???

Thanks a lot.