Help! Installing Canon Pixma iP1300 with CUPS on ubuntu 12.04.1

[Frawsty]

):P

Hi,

i just migrated from windows :D and im trying to setup Canon Pixma ip1300 color printer on Ubuntu 64 BIT V12.04.1 LTS. Since Canon officially dosent support Linux for ip1300 model. I thought of looking for some tricks..to get it work on 'U'? and i Found this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3450617 (seems to work)

but i'm getting error at 3rd Step


cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.i386.rpm is for architecture i386 ; the package cannot be built on this system^^Maybe it has something to with 32 n 64 bit , i dont really understnd :P so Would any1 help me out? :sad:

[pdc]

You say you are running 64bit Ubuntu

you are attempting to install


i386

.....that is a 32bit package, so there may be issues;

if you look here

https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon-trunk

Michael Gruz seems to do a sterling job of being chief shepherd and collecting Canon drivers under one roof

the commands would be


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk

then


sudo apt-get update

then


sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-ip13000series

..... and see if such a package is in his PPA:

Your printer could be politely described as elderly: and Canon didn't supply much linux support then: 2006 .......some of us were using Red Hat 9 about then ...........

Canon supply drivers for more recent printers

[Ezetreal]

Thank you PDC !

Your solution worked for me on Linux Mint 14.

For the next soul with a Canon PIXMA ip1300, follow pdc's post and install the cnijfilter-ip2200series. The ip1300 is not available. The 2200 series works well with it.

Again thank you pdc and Michael Gruz !



PS: Frawsty, if you are reading this, please mark this as solved...