Canon Printer Drivers - Updated 2016

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#201 Post by steve_s »

All hail rcrsn51!

Got the Canon Pixma MG2520 working on this flash drive driven Compaq Presario fully from this thread! Great thanks! 8)

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#202 Post by rcrsn51 »

Excellent. Candi v1.4 has a new tool called candi-pet-maker. It creates a ready-to-use PET installer from the Canon Debian driver packages.

1. Create a temporary folder with a descriptive name, like canon_ip2700-3.30. It MUST have a version number on the end.
2. Copy the two Canon .deb files into the folder.
3. Go into the folder, open a terminal window and run: candi-pet-maker
4. The PET will be saved in the parent folder.
5. Copy it to a safe location for the next time you need to install the printer.

Update: Candi-pet-maker can make combo print/scan PETs. Just copy all four DEBs into your source folder.
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#203 Post by perdido »

rcrsn51 wrote:Excellent. Candi v1.4 has a new tool called candi-petmaker. It creates a ready-to-use PET installer from the Canon Debian driver packages.

1. Create a temporary folder with a descriptive name, like canon_ip2700-3.30. It MUST have a version number on the end.
2. Copy the two Canon .deb files into the folder.
3. Go into the folder, open a terminal window and run: candi-pet-maker
4. The PET will be saved in the parent folder.
5. Copy it to a safe location for the next time you need to install the printer.
candi-pet-maker worked fine in Precise 5.7.1

I see a possible alternate use for candi-pet-maker. It can make a .pet file from any number of .deb packages, not just the canon drivers packages. (think program + dependencies)

Muchas Gracias!

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#204 Post by rcrsn51 »

perdido wrote:candi-pet-maker worked fine in Precise 5.7.1
Thanks for testing this. What model of Canon printer do you have?
I see a possible alternate use for candi-pet-maker. It can make a .pet file from any number of .deb packages, not just the canon drivers packages. (think program + dependencies)
Most of the code in candi-pet-maker is specific to Canon printer/scanners. To make a general-purpose DEB-to-PET tool, just take lines 1-7 and 38-43. There may already be a similar tool somewhere on the forum.

But be aware than many DEBs have post-install scripts with extra commands that may not work in Puppy.

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#205 Post by perdido »

rcrsn51 wrote: Thanks for testing this. What model of Canon printer do you have?
Most of the code in candi-pet-maker is specific to Canon printer/scanners. To make a general-purpose DEB-to-PET tool, just take lines 1-7 and 38-43. There may already be a similar tool somewhere on the forum.

But be aware than many DEBs have post-install scripts with extra commands that may not work in Puppy.
Hello rcrsn51, I apologise for the late reply, did not see this. I do not have the canon printer to install this, I tested the script and it ran with no errors so the script appears to work fine but I do not report a working canon printer.

Thanks for the additional info about the tool, maybe play with it some more making pets :)

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Candi-1.4 Canon IP110 Portable Inkjet

#206 Post by Dpup »

Want to report that using Candi-1.4 pet installed for supporting Canon V5 Linux driver from Canon support site for new Canon IP110 portable inkjet installed smoothly for both USB as well as wireless printing in Puppy Linux Tahr 6.0.3. Can easily switch between USB and wireless on several computers.

Was very uneasy after reading many complaints by users that the new IP110 is difficult to setup or to understand poorly written complex instructions and issues about the driver software and lack of support for Linux from Canon. But I did not encounter any issues installing for Linux, Windows, or Android. The Android tablet installation was accomplished by my 2 year old grand daughter... to her it was like the lighted push button learning to count, recognizing letters and number games she plays.

Thanks again for making the Linux installation so easy.

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#207 Post by irishrm »

I would also like to thank rcrsn51 for this tutorial. I was able it install my canon mg2950 in tahrpup 6.5. Both printer and scanner working perfectly.

Tried to install in slacko64 but the 64bit drivers did not install.

Thanks again.

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#208 Post by ninotix »

Can somebody pls. upload cnijfilter-ip2200-2.60 pet file? I had driver for my old printer,but i lost it and it is not available for download anymore on the forum. Thnx

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Dead download link, drivers don't work.

#209 Post by TheNH813 »

What happened to the iP1800 download link? It's dead.
Anyway, I was able to get cnijfilter-ip1800series from Canon's website.
It doesn't work. The printer is added successfully, but it just dosen't print.
Absolutely no errors of any kind, and I have no idea what's wrong.
Tried both the package you made and the common package from Canon
Neither work. Any suggestion?

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#210 Post by rcrsn51 »

Please read the instructions on the main post. It doesn't sound like you have followed them correctly.

In your case, you need two RPM packages.

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#211 Post by NuclearOrangutan »

Update: Most old Canon printers only have 32bit drivers, but some new models also have 64bit versions. You may be able to install these in Tahr64 using candi. This is untested.
tahrpup64-6.0.5 Candi works for .deb from Canon MG2500 series.

Thanks for your efforts.

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#212 Post by rcrsn51 »

Excellent. Thank you for reporting this.

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#213 Post by mleschishin »

Candi worked flawlessly in setting up my Canon MG5320 printer using MG5300 series deb packages on Puppy Precise 5.7.1 per the updated instructions on page 1. Many many thanks, rcrsn51, for your printer expertise and contributions to this forum - from one Canuck to another!

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#214 Post by rcrsn51 »

Excellent. Now that you have downloaded the DEBs, you should run candi-pet-maker and make a permanent print/scan driver PET for your model.

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Install driver for canon ip1900

#215 Post by maniek »

I wanna find a driver for this printner from this link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47444 but link was dissable where i get this
under the slacko 6.3.2

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#216 Post by artsown »

My Canon MG2520 All-in-one is probably quite popular due to its low cost.
To help other users and reduce confusion, I want to supply links to
direct downloads of the required tar.gz files for the mg2500 series:
http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents ... 50201.html
http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents ... 51901.html
I chose to download these files to /mnt/sdb1 and also extract them to
/mnt/sdb1 ... where sdb1 is a memory stick I use for backups.

I create /mnt/sdb1/canon working folder which will contain four deb files
and two scripts. The appropriate debs are copied from packages folders
created by extracting the tar.gz files. In my case, I want only the i386
debs (32 bit) and not the amd64 debs.

One script is named canon-print:
cd /mnt/sdb1/canon
candi cnijfilter-common_4.00-1_i386.deb
candi cnijfilter-mg2500series_4.00-1_i386.deb

and the other is canon-scan:
cd /mnt/sdb1/canon
candi scangearmp-common_2.20-1_i386.deb
candi scangearmp-mg2500series_2.20-1_i386.deb

Of course candi.pet must have first been installed, and cups must
now be used to actually install the printer. If all is well, 2500 series
will appear at the top of the list, and should be selected.

The reason I keep separate print-scan scripts is that there are situations
where I only need to install the scanner (the printer driver in the pup works
but not scanning). This happened with Tahrpup.

So far, I've installed print & scan on Slacko 5.7 and 6.3.2. plus Precise
5.7.1.

Xenial 7.04 has working drivers included. In this case, installing
Canon's scan driver adds a extra scan app..

Art

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Pixma IP5000 CD/DVD printing problems

#217 Post by ahoppin »

I'm not sure this is the right place to post my question. If not, my apologies, and please suggest a more appropriate area in the forum.

I'm trying to get CD/DVD printing working correctly on a veteran Canon Pixma IP5000.

Canon never published a Linux driver for this printer. However, it's supported by Gutenprint -- or at least that's what CUPS and Gutenprint claim.

However, though Gutenprint 5.2.8pre1 in Precise 5.7.1 prints fine on paper, it won't print at all on CDs/DVDs.

Gutenprint 5.2.5 in Lucid *will* print on a CD-R, but it has a problem.

It leaves a "hole" in the image, in the middle of the CD. (Gutenprint 5.2.8pre1 also leaves the "hole" when it prints my CD image on plain paper.)

Gutenprint leaves a blank circle about 4.2cm (1.6") in diameter. That would be OK for a non-hub-printable CD-R blank, but who uses those any more? My blank stock on hand (hundreds of discs) is all hub-printable, and that naked white circle in the middle of a printed disc looks really goofy.

It seems to me that this has to be deliberate area masking somewhere in the guts of the Gutenprint driver. I'm pretty sure it's not in the printer itself, because when I print to it from Gimp on a Windows machine, I can print right up to (even over) the hub.

So my question is, how can I disable Gutenprint's CD/DVD hub masking, so I can print on the ENTIRE SURFACE of a hub-printable CD/DVD with my Canon IP5000?

I'll appreciate any ideas that anyone might have.

Thanks!

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#218 Post by artsown »

@rcrn51

In a different thread you requested my inputs. However, just two posts up
you can see that I posted my basic methods and experiences. Since then,
I've duplicated my scripts for 64 bit pups using candi-1.0-noarch-1.txz
from the fatdog 710 packages ... and, of course, 64 bit debs. This works
on 64 bit tahrpup, xenial and fatdog 710. I've used the 32 bit scripts on
tahrpup, xenialpup, wheezy, precise, slacko 5.5 and slacko 6. The 64
bit scripts do not work on slackopup64.

Your 64 bit inkgui did not work on fatdog 710. It installed and a inkgui.
desktop was created, but clicking on it had no effect. The libs I install for
use in a terminal method (no gui) were taken from fatdog contrib
packages 710. They work on fatdog, xenialpup and tahrpup. They are:

ink-o.52-x86_64-1.txz
libinklevel-0.9.2-x86_64-1.txz
libieee1284-0.2.11-x86_64-1.txz

Art

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#219 Post by SoftSupp »

Dear all,

Followed the instructions on page 1 & 14 for a Canon MG5750 over USB. Printing and scanning all work beautifully.

Excellent job - Thanks

PEte...

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Xenial Pup 7.5 - Candi 1.4 - Canon Pixma MG 5750

#220 Post by SoftSupp »

Dear all,

As you can see from above, I found Candi to be perfect under Tahrpup.

But I've upgraded to xenial and either I'm missing something very obvious (quite possible), or canon have changed something that ran ok under Tahrpup.

Following the excellent instructions above, this is what happens :-

> 1. Install the candi-1.4.pet attached below. It puts a script in /root/my-applications/bin.
Yes. This happens correctly

> 2. Go to a Canon download site like here and locate the driver for your model.
Only one driver appears for 32bit Linux Pixma MG5750, namely cnijfilter2-5.20-1.deb.tar.gz

> 3. Download and unpack the archive file.
The file downloads as cnijfilter2-5.20-1.deb.tar.gz and unpacking it results in a directory called cnijfilter2-5.20-1-deb.

4. Open a terminal where the files are located and run:
candi cnijfilter-common_3.30-1_i386.deb

Which, in my case should be : candi cnijfilter2-5.20-1-deb, which results in
'Not a valid archive file'.

Perhaps candi sees this as a dir and not a file?

I've also notice that this particular driver doesnt extract to a .deb, but to a -deb.

Trying the method with candi-pet-maker gives

'failed to read archive *.deb'

However, renaming the -deb to a .deb gives:

'Error reading magic version number....is a directory'.

Please tell me where I've gone wrong and how to rectify it


Thanks in advance

Pete...

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