Canon Printer Drivers - Updated 2016

[rcrsn51]

The .deb driver file is in a subfolder of the directory cnijfilter2-5.20-1-deb.

If you ran candi-pet-maker back in August, you would have a ready-to-go installer PET to use here in Xenial.

5. Copy it to a safe location for the next time you need to install the printer.

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[SoftSupp]

The .deb driver file is in a subfolder of the directory cnijfilter2-5.20-1-deb.

Aha... Sorry
Couldn't see the wood for the trees

If you ran candi-pet-maker back in August, you would have a ready-to-go installer PET to use here in Xenial.

Not sure if I did use candi-pet-maker, or the manual method, but I'm going to try again later

Thanks for your prompt support and patience

Pete...

[SoftSupp]

After the embarrassing disaster of not pointing candi to the .deb file in /packages, I've managed to create the .pet file and install it correctly. However...

No matter what I did, cups would not see the printer - but did give me a lovely error -:

"Directory "/usr/lib/cups/filter" has insecure permissions (040777/uid=0/gid=0)"

A bit of googling later, resulted in a working printer !!

I achived this by :-

* changing the permissions

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chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/*

* Turning off the firewall
* Restarting cups
* Removing all printers
* Restarting cups
* Adding a new printer in cups

Only then did cups show the printer

Hope this helps others


Pete...

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[rcrsn51]

That's good news.

But I checked Xenial and the permissions are correct out-of-the-box (755).

I don't know how they would have accidentally been changed to 4777.

[roadkill13]

I found it necessary to reinstall Xenialpup 7.5 64 bit on my aging desktop today. I downloaded the printer drivers for my Canon TS-3122 pixma printer from Cannons website as I had done for the previous installation. Unfortunately I did not save a copy of the Candi tool. I need it to get a working install on my Canon printer.

I did extract the debian package from the compressed file system and install it. CUPs does find the printer and offer up the correct printer driver during the setup process however the print jobs fail with message for error "filter failure".

That candi tool would be real handy to have right now.

Found it! It resides on archive.org in a collection of a forum posted *.pet packages.

Printer works fine now.

[perdido]

I found it necessary to reinstall Xenialpup 7.5 64 bit on my aging desktop today. I downloaded the printer drivers for my Canon TS-3122 pixma printer from Cannons website as I had done for the previous installation. Unfortunately I did not save a copy of the Candi tool. I need it to get a working install on my Canon printer.

I did extract the debian package from the compressed file system and install it. CUPs does find the printer and offer up the correct printer driver during the setup process however the print jobs fail with message for error "filter failure".

That candi tool would be real handy to have right now.

Found it! It resides on archive.org in a collection of a forum posted *.pet packages.

Printer works fine now.

The following link is the original post in this thread (that was deleted by OP)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905062 ... hp?t=80051
Posted as a reference for the people that still have a need for that information.


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