Till--- Whilst looking for the Canon driver on line, I found this link to an Ubuntu Forum and by downloading a driver from Canon-Asia, my printer now works!! Wow-ee!
I'll put this info on the Bug-Report page. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282096&page=6&highlight=ip2600 The post at the bottom of the page, dated June 14th 2008 says--- Canon supports now the Pixma IP2600 on Linux See http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/ and I found that Canon-Asia had posted a Linux driver back in 2008, but this didn't stop the Canon Europe help desk telling me that if the Linux driver on their site didn't work, then tough luck! I find that http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/ require us to download two Debian packages - http://support-asia.canon- asia.com/P/search?model=PIXMA+iP2680&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.90 for Linux (debian Common package) File name : cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb and IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.90 for Linux (debian Package for iP2600 series) File name : cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb Another Forum page, again dated 2008, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-775368.html tells us to install the common package first and then the iP2600 series package. Now the first file (Debian Common package) came up as "same version installed" when I tried to install it, so this is the one file which comes from the Repository when installing the printer. After installing the second package, a Test Page was printed correctly!! I am sooo happy! Thanks for all your work looking into this. It does seem that the Forums need to be rationalised so that info dating back a few years doesn't get lost. I searched for hours when I first got the problem, but never found these two Forum pages which have solved the problem! Mike Gregory Tel: Home 01706825514 Mob 07734000330 --- On Sat, 3/7/10, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote: From: Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> Subject: [Bug 433311] Re: Canon PIXMA iP2600 won't work with supplied or downloaded drivers. To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 3 July, 2010, 13:48 Mike, can you run the following commands in a terminal window and post the output: dpkg -l | grep -i canon dpkg -l | grep -i 2600 Can you also try again installing Canon's driver? Tell me exactly where you have found Canon's driver and which steps you did to download and install it? Post also the exact scree output and error messages here. -- Canon PIXMA iP2600 won't work with supplied or downloaded drivers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433311 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “gutenprint” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Similar to Bug report #54233. My old printer, an Epson D88, Parallel Port, worked OK, but it's broke and I've replaced it with a Canon PIXMA iP2600 with USB connection. The Canon printer has been installed on my Windows XP drive and works. Installing it on my Linux drive seemed satisfactory - it was discovered and the iP2000 series driver installed. If a document is selected for printing, or if I attempt to print a test page, it's put into the print queue, then after a time, I get a message that the document or test page has finished printing, but the printer hasn't budged! I've looked at the Help documentation and clicked the link to Canon's download site and downloaded the appropriate driver but the package installer tells me that this is the same driver that is already installed. I'm using the latest Ubuntu release, Jaunty. I turned on the de-bugger under 'System, Admin, Printing' and I have an error log from attempting to print a test page. To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gutenprint/+bug/433311/+subscribe -- Canon PIXMA iP2600 won't work with supplied or downloaded drivers. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/433311 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
