[Printer] Canon PIXMA MP160

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Hi!

I have a Canon PIXMA MP 160 all in one printer. The scanner works very well by just configuring it via Yast. The problem comes with the printer. I found out there is a driver provided by Canon. It can be found only on the Australian site or at least that’s the only place I found it. It’s an only 32bit driver and it used to work with the 32bit compatibility packages and then changing the path to the filter written inside the ppd file. But in 11.2 a certain lib (libpng.so.3) doesn’t have a 32bit compatibility version. My guess is that it is obsolete or something like that.

Anyway any suggestions would be appreciated and I wanted to share this so that anybody having this device should know.

Thanks!

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I have the same printer I use the MP150 driver and it works for me

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On Mon November 23 2009 01:36 pm, sv g wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I have a Canon PIXMA MP 160 all in one printer. The scanner works very
> well by just configuring it via Yast. The problem comes with the
> printer. I found out there is a driver provided by Canon. It can be
> found only on the Australian site or at least that’s the only place I
> found it. It’s an only 32bit driver and it used to work with the 32bit
> compatibility packages and then changing the path to the filter written
> inside the ppd file. But in 11.2 a certain lib (libpng.so.3) doesn’t
> have a 32bit compatibility version. My guess is that it is obsolete or
> something like that.
>
> Anyway any suggestions would be appreciated and I wanted to share this
> so that anybody having this device should know.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
sv g;

If the method proposed by cydell does not help this thread might help:
http://forums.opensuse.org/hardware/426676-canon-pixma-ip1000.html
Its written for the ip1000 but the fix should be the same.

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

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hmm i wonder, how did you get your scanner working? I couldnt on 11.1 x86_64

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Hi! The scanner is configured by going in yast -> scanner. You should have the device turned on and connected prior to that and it should appear as “not configured” device. Then you select it and click “edit” and a list of available drivers appears. You can search for “MP160”. The driver is said to provide only basic functionality but it works fine with Skanlite and possibly other software. This applies to an USB based MP160 (don’t know if there’s another model of it) and it worked in the same way with openSUSE 11.1 64bit.

Thank you for the suggestions on the printer, I’ll try them! :slight_smile: