Printing and Scanning with Canon Pixma/Pixus Series

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

Thank you.

With the "cnijtools"-flag turned on, those files get installed on my system. I'll try it without "cnijtools" now and take a look if any core-component is missing.

mci_nano · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 32 Location: BS; Germany

Hi again

cofter · n00b Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 9 Location: Deutschland

I think the problem is the cnijtools flag. I think its you should make it default on, because without it the driver won't work.
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ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

I asked cofter to reproduce the problem and to determine which file exactly is missing.

One reason to seperate the core driver and auxiliary tools was to support amd64 too. The tools have additional dependencies, which have to be satisfied in 32bit (libglade and libxml).

ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/ is the origin of this driver - you can search for binary versions there. But to my surprise, I didn't find any binary IP2200 driver. But cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm (which is used by the cnijfilter.ebuild), contains sourcecode for IP2200. That's strange..

I can't reproduce your problems, because I either don't have the same printer or the same architecture.

mci_nano · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 32 Location: BS; Germany

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

They both are not available in 32bit on amd64. The only solution would be to write a 32bit ebuild for them. I already did this with libpopt and called it bjdeps. But as libxml and libglade are still missing, the bjtools and cnijtools won't compile or run, although the core driver should work.

SirYes · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:

I've tried your ebuild and everything worked very well with my Canon iP4000.
Big thanks for a good job!

I just have a question. Have you tried installing gnome-cups-manager and get it to work with this driver? Because I observed one strange thing - I was unable to invoke the printer properties window. Adding/removing, seeing jobs, pause/resume are okay. It's just the properties window that refuses to work. The program just hangs...

Additionally, I needed to remerge gnomesu with LDFLAGS="-Wl,--export-dynamic" as hinted in Bug #131290 to get gnome-cups-manager to enable all its functions... (it's a dependency)

With CUPS directly through the browser everything works correctly. Does your printer work with gnome-cups-manager?
See screenshot to appreciate the thing.

Edit:
The printer also works (including changing the properties) with GtkLP.
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SirYes · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject:

After running gnome-cups-manager from command line I've just noticed a stream of warnings, and after a HUGE timeout the program became responsive again:

SirYes · Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject:

Recently when trying to print a document from OpenOffice CUPS displayed:

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

It should be possible to use Takushi Miyoshis modifications. Quite a few people do have trouble with this pstocanonbj filter.

It would be best, to make it an option, because it doesn't support all features.

SirYes · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

I understand. But on my machine (for 99%, because I'm not at home ATM) there's no 'pstocanonbj' listed in:

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

I contacted Takushi who wrote the alternative pstocanonbj. With his assistance, I'll try to bundle it with my ebuild. But I currently don't have much time. So please be patient, it could take a week or two.

Also cofter promised to help me reproduce his problem as soon as he will have some spare time.

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

net-print/bjfilter

Sir Boss · n00b Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 12

I'm trying to get my Pixma iP1600 to work using the cnijfilter . I've compiled it with use flags cnijtools and ip2200, which the ebuild seemed to suggest as the nearest equivalent to my printer. It compiles fine, but when I select the driver and try to print a test page, nothing happens...no error messages, and no reaction whatsoever from my printer. I've also tested the other cnijfilter drivers, none of them work either. I'm fairly certain I the printer location is correct; I don't have any other USB printers attached, and the free turboprint demo driver prints fine to this location (though with a big ugly logo in the middle of the page). Any ideas on how to make this work?

The relevant results of the cups error log:

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

Try a few different settings.

I've got the same problem if the wrong paper source is selected. I have to choose "cassette" otherwise it won't work nor prompt any error.

Sir Boss · n00b Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 12

Cassette isn't an option under "paper feed," only "Auto Feeder" is an option. Perhaps I compiled cnijfilter incorrectly? Or am I looking in the wrong place? (The "Settings" button next to "Test" on KDE's add printer wizard.)
The other options under settings are Paper Size (set to A4), Media Type (set to Plain Paper), Output Resolution (600 dpi) and Color Model (RGB). The only two of these with non-default options are Media Type and Paper Size; I tried changing both of these, but it still didn't work--no error message and no test page.

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

The Canon iP1600 doesn't have a paper cassette - sorry. That's probably why it's disabled.

Unfortunately those drivers aren't officialy supported, although they are from Canon. Otherwise we could just ask Canon to improve the driver and to add some error messages if anything goes wrong.

furlongm · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 23

You could also try the gimp-print (guten-print) drivers, the latest release (~ masked in portage) works fine for me with a Canon ip4100.

brot · Guru Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 322

Hi

First thank you for creating this ebuild. It emerges without problems ( cnijfilter in this case ).
I added the Printer ( MP 500 ) , but it does nothing. and there is also no errormessage or something.
If i can help with providing usefull information or something just ask,.. i want that printer to work

brot

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kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

I had the same problem with my IP4200 and got it fixed by extracting the directory /usr/lib/bjlib from cnijfilter-ip4200-2.60-1.i386.rpm (canon homepage, rpm2targz ->tar -xzf)

Maybe this could bet built into the ebuilds? It appears to be missing in both bjfilter and cnijfilter.

I also patched the ppd file for the IP4200:

marcme · n00b Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Germany

Hi,

same problem with IP4200 here. I emerged cnijfilters with useflag cnijtools and ip4200. During installation everything works fine and I 'm also able to configure the printer with cups webinterface. Unfortunately nothing happens if a test page was sent to the printer. I checked the logs at /var/log/cups but I noticed nothing strange.
With the three additional files (/usr/lib/bjlib/) from the rpm it works fine.

Regards
Marcus

ColinK · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 142

I created two possible bugfixes for this issue with /usr/lib/bjlib. I asked brot to test both.

Bug Summary
The issue: libraries are expected to be in /usr/lib/bjlib but copied to /urs/lib/cnijlib

brot · Guru Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 322

first approach seems to work here, but i had to copy one file.