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adhi · Joined: 23 Dec 2009 Posts: 2

how to instal driver printer canon pixma 1980?

fernan · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 360 Location: Buenos Aires

At Canon europe, you can download a linux driver in RPM or .deb formats. I guess puppy can deal with this kind of packages.
http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010647.asp
You can try to install it in puppy. Or you can extract only the PPD file (since the driver comes with some extra utilities) and copy it to the appropiate location, but I don't know if this is enought to make the printer work.

Here people repported it works with the xer (XEROX) driver
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-pixma_ip1980
I can't tell you how acccurate is this information. I don' t have a printer to check it.
Here is a link to the xer driver (PPD FILE)
http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=xes

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 29 Dec 2009, 17:04 Post subject:

Drivers for the ip1900 series are available here.