Ubuntu 10.04 Canon IP2600 Printer How-To

[MillDaKill]

Summery:
If you are like me and you own a Canon IP2600 printer you have probably found out that Ubuntu 10.04 does not set it up automagically. After doing a little reading and some trial and error I have figured out how to get it to work and I wanted to share my solution with you all. There is a good chance that if there are other Canon IPXXXX printers that are not supported in Ubuntu 10.04 that following steps similar to the ones I am giving for the IP2600 will work (YMMV and not tested).

Notes:
1.) I have only followed these steps on Ubuntu 10.04

2.) The computer I did it on was a 32bit machine

3.) Do not follow these steps on any kind of mission critical or production machine, spend the money and get a better supported printer.

4.) It is probably wise to make sure you have a backup of important files on your computer. This guide worked for me but it has not been rigorously tested by any means.

How-To:
0.) Read all 10 steps listed below before you start. If you are a trusting person, there is a shortcut on step 3 that can save you 10-20 minutes worth of work.

1.) Download the Canon IP2600 drivers from HERE. The file should be called iP2600_debiang.tgz .

2.) Unzip and un-archive iP2600_debiang.tgz

3.) Now the fun part... The .deb files included in the iP2600_debiang.tgz were built for an older version of ubuntu which reference a package called "cupsyslib2". This old package has been since renamed to "cupslib2" so we will have to re-build the .deb packages. There is a good guide on how to re-create the .debs HERE . Follow the guide in the link and when you edit the list of dependencies replace all "cupsyslib2" with "cupslib2". If you are a trusting person and you do not want to re-build your own .deb files I have uploaded the files I customized to mediafire.

cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb


4.) Install customized "common" deb

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

5.) Install customized "ip2600series" deb

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

6.) Chown /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij to root:root

sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij

7.) Restart your computer

8.) Install the printer in Gnome via the menus at the top of your screen "System -> Administration -> Printers"

9.) Print a test page

10.) If you follow this guide, please let me know if it worked for you

[Palanthas]

Do you have a 64bit howto as well? lol, I was/am all excited about getting my iP2600 working and had all the files ready to go (used your's btw) but when I ran the first command it comes back with...

david@david-server:~$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
david@david-server:~$

[Ellio-pc]

Thank you Milldakill I can now use my printer. I have so far only printed a test page but everything installed and worked flawlessly. Many thanks.

[issachan]

Oh thank you for the instructions! My printer is working finally! I was beginning to think I had a giant paper weight and would have to buy a new printer right away.

The only problem I have with the printer is that it doesn't recognize that it has paper so it's constantly stopping and complaining it has no paper.

Anyway, thank you so much!! You're awesome! =D>

[nickytchao]

I all!
first, I wanna thank issachan fot his post and his files!
Then I want to bring a good new for Palanthas and all the others that have a 64 bits machine with an ip2600.
to be simple, just take the files and use dpkg -i --force-architecture to install the .deb!
That's all!

Excuse me fot my english and thank you again!

[headmower]

Many thanks to MillDaKill, I used the download links for my canon ip2600 printer. First I saved the downloads and in stalled them with the g-deb installer and then used the sudo root command you supplied and my printer works just fine. This was the easiest install on ubuntu so far. headmower@gmail.com

[-TopGun-]

Do you have a 64bit howto as well? lol, I was/am all excited about getting my iP2600 working and had all the files ready to go (used your's btw) but when I ran the first command it comes back with...

david@david-server:~$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
david@david-server:~$

It works using --force in the syntax for both the steps MillDaKill explained in the best way possible in points 4 and 5

dpkg -i --force-architecture cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

same commands adding --force-architecture

It works very good under Debian Squeeze Amd64.

[fourstringin]

Worked great

[sporez]

Is there some reason that these drivers would not work with 10.10? I was successful in getting my IP2600 printer working in 10.04 but cannot in 10.10.

[-TopGun-]

Is there some reason that these drivers would not work with 10.10? I was successful in getting my IP2600 printer working in 10.04 but cannot in 10.10.

May be this is due to an another change in lib name?
You have to verify this.