Canon iP2600....anyone?

[stovie87]

DRIVERS for the CANON Pixma iP2600 are indeed located at:
http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/ as "naildeca" says.

Couple Notes, FYI:
This install took about 5 minutes... easy for a noob like me.

In addition to the two .deb files (the drivers) mentioned by "naildeca" above at this site (the drivers appear when you select the Injet, Pixma, iP2680 printer, Downloads), are the VERY USEFUL Linux install instructions (Ubuntu included) listed if you then select "Manuals":

"IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.90 for Linux (Operation guide [Explanation of the iP2600series operation (html file)]"

With this wonderful documentation the installation went a bit easier... since there is one install step one must take before installing the .debs.

Noteworthy in these instructions, CANON recommends the following command at the Terminal before installing the .debs, to ready the system to "receive" them. I found this necessary and fundamental:

sudo aa-complain cupsd

Final Notes:
The install instructions include a step called "Register the Printer to the Spooler." A sample command is shown, so this is easy to do. However, part of the command needs two things that are peculiar to your computer after you install the .debs.
[printer_name]
[PPD_filename]
[device_URI]
Printer name and the URI may be easily found at System, Administration, Printing ... and your iP2600 PPD can be found using "locate *.ppd" at the command line.

If it helps, mine was located in /usr/share/ppd/canonip2600.ppd, and after the Registration command, in /etc/cups/ppd/canonip2600.ppd

Some applications need to be told the Printer "PPD" to allow them to understand how to talk to the iP2600, so you may want to save this location in a text file--for later recall or copy & paste.
Thanks to those who forged the path and helped me find the drivers.
Best wishes.

I finally got it to work thanks!!


i found that i needed to remove and reinstall the cnijfilter-common2 package before i got it to work.

[jiggzson]

If you tried installing the Asian drivers but you're getting a dependencies error try these. The dependencies were changed using a tutorial on the web. Worked for me.

[murpter]

Okay after a ridiculous amount of hassle, I have found a method to make an iP2600 work in Ubuntu 12.04
First download the two customized drivers from this thread
These are drivers that have been altered to enable the driver to play nicely with the new libcups2 package.

Next, open the terminal.
type: sudo aa-complain cupsd
This prepares the system for the driver, also move your downloaded files to your Home folder out of downloads.

Next, in the terminal, type: sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

Then follow that up with: sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

These should now be installed but there will be a filter issue. You resolve this with two commands:
sudo chown root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij

Now the printer should be able to be added through the control menu at the top right -printers... and if needed, Add...

Hope it helps!

Acknowledgements: Thank you to MillDaKill, China_Jobs, and TechnoStripe.com for the info and files, since this is but an application and compilation of your work.
Tested on: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin 32-bit

[ppssupport]

I know, I'm very late, but...

Please view this tutorial, it contains very easy instruction for terminal user and shell script user.

http://www.ppsolution.net/en/article...non_ip2600.pdf

[Davey_Burgess]

An even later response, but those who are running 12.04 LTS and above 64bit will like this one!
http://askubuntu.com/questions/23003...n-ubuntu-12-10
The second answer worked perfectly for me on an AMD dual core running 64bit. In case the link above should stop working, here's the meat of it:

After updating to Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit), I got my Canon ip2600 printer to work with the canon-trunk repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-ip2600series

Hope that helps someone else