[SOLVED] Canon printer installation

[skintythe1andonly]

Hi

I am relatively new to Ubuntu and am still having problems installing my canon pixma ip2500.

when you get to checking the DLL's are working correctly you ran ldd cifip2500

I am a little confused as to what to do with the output. What do I link the files not found from this output to. there seems to be a lot missing

skint@skint-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ ldd cifip2500
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f0f000)
libcnbpcmcm311.so => not found
libcnbpess311.so => not found
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7ed8000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7ed4000)
libtiff.so.3 => not found
libpng.so.3 => not found
libcnbpcnclapi311.so => not found
libcnbpcnclbjcmd311.so => not found
libcnbpcnclui311.so => not found
libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb7ecb000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7d7c000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f10000)

I have downloaded the rpm's from the canon site. In have extracted them and installed them using alien. I have moved the pstocanonij file as instructed but am unsure what to do with the above.

I have tried Turboprinter and it has worked but I am not paying that much to have the logo removed

Please help

[kostasan]

Have you tried the driver for canon pixma ip2000? It is included in ubuntu 8.04 and it might be copatible with your printer. I believe it is worth a try.

[oz]

Check this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3656334

It might be that you can use Synaptic to install some additional packages to make it work.

[x1a4]

Hi,

I had a similar problem with my Pixma iP1800. It turned out that the RPMs where for RHat-based distributions ONLY, and installing using alien didn't work because the directory structure was incorrect. I had to use alien to convert the RPMs, extract the DEB, change the directory structure, repackage and install, before my printer worked. You probably will have to do the same.

[skintythe1andonly]

Hi

It turns out you can use the rpm's as long as you move the pstocanonbj file to /usr/lib/cups/filters

I had been following the thread suggested by ozar before

[SOLVED] canon pixma ip2500 not printing - Ubuntu Forums

however i didnt have the repositories to install the packages needed. I got them by adding

deb http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/ubuntu ./ to the sources.list file

and then follow the steps for the above mentioned thread,

The ip2000 driver does not work with the ip2500 in hardy but nice try