How to get my Canon Pixma ip1000 Printer to work on Linux

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I tried googling for a solution, but I’m stumped. Can anyone help me please?

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anyone? it’s kind of urgent.

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On Sun January 18 2009 03:16 pm, IliketoMoveitMoveit wrote:

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> anyone? it’s kind of urgent.
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Your best source of information is here:
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
Unfortunately this page seems to be down today(1/18/09). (At least from here.)
It should be back online by tomorrow.

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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On Sun January 18 2009 03:24 pm, PV wrote:

> On Sun January 18 2009 03:16 pm, IliketoMoveitMoveit wrote:
>
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>> anyone? it’s kind of urgent.
>>
>>
> Your best source of information is here:
> http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
> Unfortunately this page seems to be down today(1/18/09). (At least from
> here.) It should be back online by tomorrow.
The site is back up. Here is your link:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-pixma_ip1000

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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Canon do offer some printer drivers, for some of its inkjet printers;

they offer linux drivers for your ip1000;

if you go here,

Canon

and download the rpm files, as that is what opensuse uses;

download the common package and the rpm package for the ip1000

**but install the common package first;
**
(in the same way that swerdna advised for brother printers)

HowTo Install a Brother Laser Printer HL-2040 in Suse 10.x, 11.x + User Notes

I would suggest installing by right-clicking firstly on the common package and select install with package installer which should open YaST: enter your substitute user (su or root) password;

close YaST if still open after this;

then again right-click on the ip1000; and follow the above;

hopefully … that will work …

if it does not give you immediate printer recognition in … say … OpenOffice, try opening CUPS: common unix printing system;

by entering the line listed below in your browser line;

http://localhost:631/

I would have thought you select “add printer” and it should have your canon available as an option;

PV was quite right that openprinting is usually THE SOURCE for linux printing but I find the entry for the ip1000 confusing

so would suggest you try the above;

let us know how you get along

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It keeps saying Printer Driver not detected. And I’ve already downloaded the hplip-hpijs package.

And i don’t know what to do in cups.

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  1. when you say

It keeps saying Printer Driver not detected

can you describe (in some detail) what you have done, and when you get this message please;

And I’ve already downloaded the hplip-hpijs package.

as I understand it, hplip is only to help hewlett-packard printers run; it would not help with a canon printer

  1. if you are really keen to get your printer running quickly and well, I suggest you go to this site:

ZEDOnet | Download | Download TurboPrint

and get turboprint;

you can see from this page

ZEDOnet | Supported Printers | TurboPrint 2 - Printer Drivers for Linux - Supported Printers

that your printer is supported; to get the full version, it will cost you a few dollars, but many folks value their printers, and wish to use them; we use turboprint for our canon printers, and it works very well

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Thanks. it works.

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great;

can you tell us what you did to get it to work;

did you for example use the canon rpm drivers from their website?

It would be a great help to others following to hear what worked so well for you

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sure, I used the Turbo Print.

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oh good; it works very well; all best wishes