Canon all-in-one laser printers

[1clue]

Hi,

I have found several people who have had problems with Canon all-in-one laser printers. I had huge problems when I first set mine up because it wasn't in Synaptic yet.

There are threads on the forum addressing specific printers, but since the driver wasn't officially supported for very long I think lots of folks have given up the fight.

My thought is that anyone who successfully installed a Canon laser should be able to post to this thread, and/or a link to threads on this or other forums which they found helpful in getting it to work.

The driver as it is shown in Ubuntu 10.10 is cndrvcups-ufr2-uk, and cndrvcups-common.

I have a Canon ImageClass MF8050CN color networked laser which works perfectly with this driver. It supports the networking, although it takes a couple minutes to populate the list of printers when you're setting up. I have not tried the USB port since I have no use for that type of configuration. I have not tried scanning to the computer, only to the USB stick, which works fine.

Thanks.

[Fraoch]

Thanks for starting this thread, I'm following you over from another thread and I'll post here rather than hijack that one.

First of all, you said in the other thread and implied here that cndrvcups-ufr2-uk and cndrvcups-common are in the repos. Which repo? I wasn't able to find it so I downloaded it from the Canon Australia website as directed in another thread. It was version 2.20.

Unfortunately it looks like my old (2005 era) imageCLASS MF5770 isn't supported. There's no PPD file in the driver for it and similar-looking PPDs (i.e. "MF5800") don't work.

The printer is not detected over the network and I had to guess at several steps - entering the IP address then selecting the default "PASSTHRU" which I didn't understand.

I tried doing it via USB as well, two printers are detected - MF5770 and MF5770 FAX but neither work because none of the PPD files seem to operate it.

Since I'm running 64-bit, I made 64-bit .deb files from the 64-bit .rpm files using alien. I'll try the 32-bit .deb files. They might not work, but I just want to see if there is an MF5770 PPD there.

I had high hopes this would finally get the printer to work in Linux. It's too bad, I guess other than the fact that it isn't supported in Linux or my fiance's Mac, it's not bad. There's no off switch and most errors have to be cleared by unplugging it and waiting 3 minutes but I can't say there's been problems with paper jams or the auto document feeder. It prints quite fast, the fax is full-featured, the networking is solid, it runs a web configuration page at its IP address, the envelope bypass slot works well and the toner lasts a long time. I only just got my first toner low message a few months ago and the counter indicates I've printed over 3000 pages.

If only Canon would cooperate with the Linux community more! Among printer manufacturers they seem to be the last holdout.

[Fraoch]

Ack, checking the readme I see that the MF5770 is not supported.

End of the line for me then.

[1clue]

Sorry to hear about this, but it's not necessarily the end of the line. You might want to try to find out what other printers were in the same "family" and then google Linux and any of those printers. Printer manufacturers always build a bunch of models that all behave the same way, and if somebody else built from modified source you might either be able to make the same changes or, possibly, convince some developer to do it so it benefits everyone with those models.

This is, after all, the basic premise behind Open Source. If you can find a bunch of other guys who would all donate a few bucks to pay a developer, if none are willing to volunteer it, then that might get the job done too.

[Bagh33ra]

Good start of a thread, I guess my experience fits in nicely here. Just bought a Canon i-Sensys MF8030Cn and spent most of the afternoon getting it installed, especially on 64bit Ubuntu (10.10, Maverick Meerkat).

In the end it was really easy, but finding the information i needed was not:

The driver can be obtained directly from Canon. This printer is supported by the "UFRII/UFRII LT Printer Driver for Linux v2.20", which supports a lot of other Canon printers too (see list at the end of this posting). The driver file I downloaded was o1113enx_l_ufr220.zip, there seems to be many variants (languages?).

Canon provides .deb packaged drivers for 32 bit systems, but only (RedHat) rpm for 64 bit. The 32bit .deb packages worked nicely "as is" on my 32bit laptop, but my 64 bit desktop needed some more. Luckily the rpm converted nicely to debian/ubuntu using alien. So once I got the rpm packages unpacked on my system all I needed to do was,

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -i /path/to/file.rpm (for both drivers in the package)

and once that was done CUPS recognized the printer in the normal "add printer" process.

Have not done anything more than a few test prints, and only over network (not USB), but this far it looks good. Asfaik no driver exists that would enable the scanner, but this model has the nice option to scan directly to a usb-stick.

According to the readme file, this driver should work with the following printers:

LBP3360
LBP3370
LBP3460
LBP5360
LBP5960
LBP5970
LBP5975
LBP6650dn
LBP6750/3560
LBP7750C
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2020/2030
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2020/2030i
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2020/2030L
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2025
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5030/C5030i/C5035/C5035i
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C5051/C5051i/C5045/C5045i
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C7055/C7065
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9060/C9070 PRO
imageRUNNER ADVANCE C9065/C9075 PRO
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 6055/6055i/6065/6065i
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 6075/6075i
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8085/8095
imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8105
imageRUNNER2520/2520i
imageRUNNER2525/2525i/2530/2530i
imageRUNNER2535/2535i/2545/2545i
iR105+
iR1018
iR1020
iR1022
iR1024/1024A/1024F/1024i/1024iF
iR2016/2016i
iR2018/2018i
iR2020/2020i
iR2022
iR2025
iR2030
iR2230
iR2270
iR2318L
iR2320L/2320N
iR2420D/2420L
iR2830
iR2870
iR3025
iR3030
iR3035
iR3045
iR3225/3225N
iR3230/3230A/3230N
iR3235/3235A/3235N
iR3245/3245A/3245N
iR3530
iR3570
iR4530
iR4570
iR5055
iR5065
iR5075
iR5570
iR6570
iR7086
iR7095/7095P
iR7105
iR8070
iR85+
iR9070
iR C1021/C1021i
iR C1028/C1030
iR C2380i
iR C2550/C2550i
iR C2580i
iR C2880/C2880i
iR C3080/C3080i
iR C3180/C3180i
iR 3180C/3180Ci
iR C3380/C3380i
iR C3580/C3580i
iR C4080
iR C4580
iR C5180
iR C5185
iR C5870
iR C5880/C5880i
iR 5880C/5880Ci
iR C6870
iR C6880/C6880i
iR 6880C/6880Ci
imagePRESS C1
imagePRESS C1+
D400-450
D460-490
D500 Series
D1100 Series
MF4010 Series
MF4100 Series
MF4200 Series
MF4320-4350
MF4360-4390
MF4400 Series
MF4500 Series
MF4600 Series
MF5800 Series
MF6500 Series
MF6600 Series
MF7100 Series
MF8000 Series
MF8300 Series
MF8400 Series
MF9100 Series
MF9200 Series
MF9300 Series
L160
L3000 Series

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I should have thought to put that list here. Thanks!

[Fraoch]

A good HOWTO involving the UFRII drivers:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1140724

It's a bit old though, using a previous version of Ubuntu and the drivers, but the procedure should still be the same.

[1clue]

Yes, there are already threads covering this material but most of them didn't show up when I was searching. All I did here is make a thread for people who searched on the terms I used. Please add any threads for UFRII drivers that you find here. And thank you.

[lkub]

New problem with new Ubuntu release

I've just upgraded to Natty (11.04), and my Canon MF 6590 stopped working even though it worked flawlessly with the UFRI driver (mentioned above) with several previous versions of Ubuntu including Maverick 10.10. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are details of what happened and what I tried to do (all my attempts failed, unfortunately):

-During the upgrade to 11.04, the ugrader/installer removed the driver;
-After the upgrade, CUPS does find the printer but has no driver, obviously;
-When I'm trying to reinstall the driver, I'm getting the following message from the Ubuntu Software Center:"Dependency is not satisfiable: gs-esp". Note that it doesn't just complain that a program is missing; it states that the dependency is NOT SATISFIABLE (?).
-So, I tried a different approach using the PPD file for MF6590. I copied that file (Canon-MF6500.ppd) from another machine running Ubuntu 10.10 and asked CUPS to install the printer using that PPD. Much to my surprise, CUPS wouldn't do that either (!). To be more precise, "print test page" leads to a complain that there is a missing program, pstoufr2cpca.
-So, I copied that program from another machine as well, converted it into an exe and copied into its proper directory.
-Now the outcome is different: CUPS does install the driver, "print test page" doesn't complain about anything but it doesn't print anything either.

I'm out of ideas here and would appreciate any help. Google tells me that people have had a similar problem with previous upgrades but is there a solution?

Many thanks, guys!

[ykkhern]

Hi lkub,

I'm in the same situation as you, just download and install gs-esp from the following link and reinstall the drivers, everything should work fine (at lease in my case for sure, I'm using Canon iR3245). Hope this help.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/i386/gs-esp/9.01~dfsg~svn12047-0ubuntu1

New problem with new Ubuntu release

I've just upgraded to Natty (11.04), and my Canon MF 6590 stopped working even though it worked flawlessly with the UFRI driver (mentioned above) with several previous versions of Ubuntu including Maverick 10.10. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are details of what happened and what I tried to do (all my attempts failed, unfortunately):

-During the upgrade to 11.04, the ugrader/installer removed the driver;
-After the upgrade, CUPS does find the printer but has no driver, obviously;
-When I'm trying to reinstall the driver, I'm getting the following message from the Ubuntu Software Center:"Dependency is not satisfiable: gs-esp". Note that it doesn't just complain that a program is missing; it states that the dependency is NOT SATISFIABLE (?).
-So, I tried a different approach using the PPD file for MF6590. I copied that file (Canon-MF6500.ppd) from another machine running Ubuntu 10.10 and asked CUPS to install the printer using that PPD. Much to my surprise, CUPS wouldn't do that either (!). To be more precise, "print test page" leads to a complain that there is a missing program, pstoufr2cpca.
-So, I copied that program from another machine as well, converted it into an exe and copied into its proper directory.
-Now the outcome is different: CUPS does install the driver, "print test page" doesn't complain about anything but it doesn't print anything either.

I'm out of ideas here and would appreciate any help. Google tells me that people have had a similar problem with previous upgrades but is there a solution?

Many thanks, guys!