Canon MP160 Printer

[dsouzaj]

I have Canon MP 160 on a Gigabyte MB, with 1GB Ram, 3.2Ghz Processor, 945 Integrated graphics chip. I used my printer with Opensuse 10.3 and was very happy that it configured correctly and worked perfectly, but now that I have upgraded to 11.0 I am having problems with printing with the same printer. The company has not released any new drivers for it. I am using the same the company has provided through their website on canon.co.in. The problem is that it is going into error mode and so I cannot print. It is showing that the color cartridge needs to be changed, I do not know if that is the reason for the problem. I also can print from Ubuntu 8.04 with the MP 150 driver and not with the one from the canon company!!

[paulparker]

Did you get the scanner to work ?



After yet another need scan, with frustration at forgetting how did we do this earlier, am looking seriously at purchasing another printer&scanner which will install and work without needing technical skills...


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[stobio]

as I have also added a query with the Epson D92 printer and OpenSuse11.0, is this a common problem/feature? I mean that it is not common to everyone but a 'consistent' feature of OpenSuse11.0 currently.

[pdc_2]

sorry to hear you are having troubles installing this printer; this was a post from Fedora, but using rpms; as in Suse; it detailed installation steps; it may well be of no use, but if you wanted to check if any of the steps applied to Suse:

Guide: Install Canon Mp150 & Mp160 Printers in Linux « Sorcerer’s tech…

as you say, the Indian Canon website gives the files for the Mp150 as the cnijfilter-common-2.70-1.i386.rpm & cnijfilter-mp160-2.70-1.i386.rpm; did you install them yourself as an rpm command in a terminal? The Lexmark printers require the same type of installation; and they I think say the common (which I think is a cups driver) MUST be installed first;

some might suggest removing the drivers; and reinstalling; the command I think would be # (root) rpm -e filename.rpm

but you may wish to seek advice from others on the forum first;

I do think it is great that Canon are now starting to offer drivers for linux;

but it is paradoxical that the rpm that SHOULD BE INSTALLED first:

IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.70 for Linux (rpm Common package) IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.70 for Linux (rpm Common package)

is listed no.26 (and on the second page);

and the file that should be installed AFTER: is listed higher up, as number 16 and is on the first page;

Many folks might just download file 16; and believe it is enough:

I think the advice would be download no.26 (page 2) first; install; and then download no 16 from page; and install it

[sailorcire]

With Open Suse 11 it awkwardly recognized the scanner and after looking on the Ubuntu Forums I found that using the MP150 Driver works...I'm not the best Linux user but after trying the MP150 driver twice it worked (some reason I got Error 2 on my printer the first time I tried it). Hope that helps some...

[pdc_2]

so the scanner works?

out of interest, in a terminal can you type the command

sane-find-scanner

and tell us what you get;

and then

scanimage -L

those commands are as user; they just ask the system for information and do not change anything;

if a scanner is not recognised they can be issued as substitute user (su) aka root:

# sane-find-scanner

and

# scanimage -L

it would be very interesting to hear back from you

Question 2. What was it on the Ubuntu forum that helped you install?