Canon ip1880 and Opensuse 11

[pdc_2]

if we ask you questions in two areas:

1) are you running 32bit or 64bit Suse; if you can't remember what you installed, there is a command that may help

2) http://localhost:631/

if you open this site: it uses your browser; but only opens locally so no security risks;
look in "manage printers": see if any entries;
try "add printer" and click on canonip1800 if you see such offered; try to configure from there;

let us know how it goes; this "bad device" area is a hard one

[pdc_2]

I see an entry in an Ubuntu forum

The Canon PIXMA Linux blog, for all Canon PIXMA all-in-ones: Setup Canon Pixma MP600 or MP610 multifunctions printers on Linux

that

Actually, there's a bug in cups 1.3.7 and 1.3.9 which prevents it from adding a backend name containing an underscore _ in its name.

this was dated 19th Jan 2009

he further said

I'm writing a blog entry (but overwhelmed at the moment) on that and how to recompile cups to fix this bug, but in the meantime, try to edit file /etc/cups/printers.conf, and change the line starting with

DeviceURI
to:
DeviceURI cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0

Then, restart cups (or simply reboot)
The Canon backend should be running then.

if running gnome paste into a terminal

gnomesu gedit /etc/cups/printers.conf

or KDE

kdesu kwrite /etc/cups/printers.conf

I note that our 11.0 version of OpenSuse has 1.3.7 running

but we run turboprint and it works well

[TuxmenSV]

Hello again.

Answering the questions "1) are you running 32bit or 64bit Suse; if you can't remember what you installed, there is a command that may help"

I'm running the 11.1 - 64bit Suse

"2) http://localhost:631/" gives me

Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.9

But in the printer section, I get the following message

IP1800 (Impresora predeterminada) "Filter "pstocanonij" for printer "IP1800" not available: No such file or directory"

Without the changes, In the file /etc/cups/printers.conf I have:

DeviceURI usb://Canon/iP1800%20series

that gives me in the printer seccion of http://localhost:631/:

URI de la conexión: usb://Canon/iP1800%20series

With the changes "DeviceURI cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0" in /etc/cups/printers.conf, I have:

URI de la conexión: cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0

and the same

IP1800 (Impresora predeterminada) "Filter "pstocanonij" for printer "IP1800" not available: No such file or directory"

This have to do with a missing file?

Thanks.

On Wed March 11 2009 06:26 pm, TuxmenSV wrote:

>
> Hello again.
>
> Answering the questions "1) are you running 32bit or 64bit Suse; if you
> can't remember what you installed, there is a command that may help"
> I'm running the 11.1 - 64bit Suse
>
> "2) http://localhost:631/" gives me
> Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.9
>
> But in the printer section, I get the following message
> IP1800 (Impresora predeterminada) "Filter "pstocanonij" for
> printer "IP1800" not available: No such file or directory"
>
> Without the changes, In the file /etc/cups/printers.conf I have:
> DeviceURI usb://Canon/iP1800%20series
> that gives me in the printer seccion of http://localhost:631/:
> URI de la conexión: usb://Canon/iP1800%20series
>
> With the changes "DeviceURI cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0" in
> /etc/cups/printers.conf, I have:
> URI de la conexión: cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0
> and the same IP1800 (Impresora predeterminada) "Filter
> "pstocanonij" for printer "IP1800" not available: No such file or
> directory"
>
> This have to do with a missing file?
>
> Thanks.
>
TuxmenSV;
The pstocanonij is in /usr/lib/cups/filter; CUPS is looking for it
in /usr/lib64/cups/filter. You just need to add a link as follows:

ln -s /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij /usr/lib64/cups/filter

--
P. V.
"We're all in this together, I'm pulling for you." Red Green

[TuxmenSV]

Hello Again.

Create the link doesn't work for me. Copy the file "pstocanonij" from "/usr/lib/cups/filter" to "/usr/lib64/cups/filter" YES!!!!

The problem is now solved.

Again, thanks a lot to the the great family, the Open Suse community.

Muchísimas Gracias.

[pdc_2]

well done; enjoy your printer; another successful install of the canon drivers for their inkjet printers; on a 64 bit system;

it seems the fix for the error message

lpadmin: Bad device-uri "cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0

should have been a symbolic link

ln -s /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij /usr/lib64/cups/filter

but for you, copying the file

pstocanonij

from /usr/lib/cups/filter/

to /usr/lib64/cups/filter

worked