Greetings I have been fighting with my Canon i9900 and Ubuntu - I know Canon does not list drivers for the printer and that one of the other drivers (BJC-8500 apparently) may work, but before we go there....
I have checked my printer settings in the "System Settings/ Printers" and apparently, the system is adequately detecting that I do have an i9900, the printer does print and it even looks like it will do so decently. If I can figure out why it is apparently thinking my paper is larger than it is. All the settings for the printer driver I can find indicate 8.5x11 paper size. A test sheet though appears to want to print "off the right" - one indication of this is that the Make and Model line of the test page ends "v5.2. with that last period being about 4mm from the right edge. There is also a trim line running 3mm from the top and left edges. Normally, I might expect these lines to be about 12mm in from the edges of the paper. Immediately thought "Well - just change the paper to landscape and see what happens" - I did this by rotating the paper in the printer then both without setting landscape in the printer and then with changing it - and the print did not change. I can hold two pages up to the light and they are absolutely identical. Is there any place in Ubuntu that is informing it what it might "think" my print size is? Everything I print has no right edge by what appears to be perhaps an inch - and the borders in general seem to be larger than they should be. Printer driver settings are: Device URI: usb://Canon/i9900?serial=4128c6 Make and Model: Canon i9900 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 I looked in the cups log area - there is an error file, but it appears to only contain notes regarding existing files: W [30/Jan/2013:11:07:15 -0500] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'i9900-Gray..' already exists W [30/Jan/2013:11:07:15 -0500] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:profile id 'i9900-RGB..' already exists W [30/Jan/2013:11:07:15 -0500] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.ColorManager.AlreadyExists:device id 'cups-i9900' already exists Any thoughts? Any further info needed to give any thoughts? Am I just faced with booting back into M$ when I want to print anything I need to keep? TurboPrint oculd be an option once I get a new system, but this kind of looks "basic" so maybe someone has something they can direct me to. Thanks! JackC -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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