cups and canon bjc 2100

uas · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

hi !

i need some help because my printer is still quiet ... i dual boot with win2k so i can say that my canon bjc 2100 works fine. and under gentoo 1.2 to do it work i installed cups like it s discribed in the desktop guide. but nothing happens. even an "echo hello > /dev/lp0" don t work. in the cups configuration server i didn t find the driver for my printer so i went to www.linuxprinting.org to generate a ppd and i copied it to the /usr/share/cups/model folder. my kernel is set like that CONFIG_PARPORT <M> , CONFIG_PARPORT_PC <M>, CONFIG_PRINTER <M> . a lsmod show lp , parport and parport_pc modules. when i want to print the test page this message "Back-channel read error - Invalid argument!" appears and the job is "completed". i also tried downgrading to cups-1.1.14-r4 and do a "/etc/init.d start" but always the same result. what is the problem ? what can i do to make it works ?

metalac · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2002 10:20 pm Post subject:

There is a thing called TurboPrint that I use with my Canon BJC 4400, give it a try.

uas · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

do u already make your bjc 4400 work under gentoo without turboprint ?
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uas · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

ok it work, thk u. but there is nothing when i do "echo something > /dev/lp0" any ideas ?
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rizzo · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:37 am Post subject:

I have a Canon BJC-3000 and am having the same problem. cat'ing files to /dev/lp0 produce nothing. I'm pretty certain that my kernel is configured properly, dmesg even gets the info back from the printer. Here is a snippet from dmesg