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SOLVED Printer driver help.

Post by trefall »

Folks,
I downloaded a Canon printer driver a while back and I'm trying to install it now. It's an .rpm package. So, I installed Alien, figured out how to log in as root [good that root isn't default. I could really do a lot of damage :D ] but I can't cd to where the package is located 'Downloads'. I don't know Linux syntax and I'm trying things I'm finding in other posts but nothing works. Related question, do I have to convert each file in the package? There are 4 files. Two 'common' and two 'piximaip'. Any help is appreciated.
Edit - Another question. Is it possible to convert the driver to a .deb and post it, since Canon apparently doesn't like Debian :D , or is it some sort of copyright violation. anybody know?
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Re: Printer driver help.

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I do not have a Canon printer so i do not have any first hand experience with these but they may help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CanonCaptDrv190,
http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/#canon
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trefall

Re: Printer driver help.

Post by trefall »

Thanks MZ. I'll check them out
casaduana

Re: Printer driver help.

Post by casaduana »

The printer driver on the Japanese site most like will not work since it was based on Ubuntu 7.04. My findings corroborate that post Ubuntu 8.04, aka Mint 5, the work-around from mambo will not work. However, a very simple, albeit costly---you must pay for it--- solution is to buy the Turboprint program from www.turboprint.de. Their driver program works on virtually any Canon printer and installs very nicely in all recent versions of Mint Linux. Canon makes little or no effort to produce or adapt drivers for Linux. They make great, inexpensive printers to buy and use, but their Linux support is terrible. I went though a lot of sweat and anguish before deciding that Turboprint's solution was/is the cheapest.
trefall

Re: Printer driver help.

Post by trefall »

Tried to install driver but get
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0)
Seems to want to work but I'm guessing there's some glitch. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
trefall

Re: Printer driver help.

Post by trefall »

If you have an iP1000 on Linux system, try this -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45609 post #4
I've tried 5 different ways and this one was the only one that actually worked!
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