Canon PIXMA iP2700 series driver? [SOLVED]

[SalmonEater]

Can anyone suggest to a newbie how best to get the above printer working? I googled and it appears domestic drivers do not exist. Or do they?

Linux recognizes the printer by the above name, Firefox updates its "registry" with entries using the 2700 Series name, too, and print previews function normally. It just won't print. Leads and/or ideas, please. It's a USB lead, printer to PC. (At $29.99 incl S&H, I couldn't resist) Help much appreciated.

I just switched from the XFCE to LXDE desktop GUI of 13.1. No question, the latter is a little quicker on my machine. Thanks, developers!

[maximus]

If by saying 'domestic' you mean Slackware or Salix, then no I don't think any pre-packaged drivers do exist, but there are Linux drivers available for your printer here.

Getting them working might be a problem though for you though. I did manage to get my Canon MP270 printer working a while back but it was a real beaatch. The drivers/sources seem to be packaged in a very similar way though, if I have some time I'll see if I can dig out what I did.

Edit: A couple of questions:

Linux recognizes the printer by the above name, Firefox updates its "registry" with entries using the 2700 Series name,

When you say that Linux recognizes the printer, have you done anything to try installing this printer with CUPS? When you say 'registry entries' do you mean that you can see the printer in Firefox's File/Print dialog?

What is the output of this command?

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$ lpstat -a

[SalmonEater]

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lpstat: No destination added

being a USB printer, would not I use a different command?

No, I didn't use CUPS. (It asks for a password -- do I need to register for this, too?)

RE: Firefox -- the entries showed when I placed about:config in the address bar.

NOTE: I was most likely using peppermint when I saw the icon for designated printer in the printer config window; I set up numerous hard drives with different Linux distros and sometimes forget what I was using when i saw what. Nonetheless, I cannot get the printer set up with any flavor of Linux!

Thank you for the download, iP2700_Linux_Package.tar! It will not untar from the cli, however.

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tar -zvtf file.tar

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gzip:  stdin:  not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar:  Error is not recoverable:  exiting now

[Shador]

It's just an uncompressed tar. But with -z you force tar to use gzip, but it's none, so that's why it fails.

[Akuna]

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lpstat: No destination added

being a USB printer, would not I use a different command?

From man lpstat:

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lpstat - print cups status information
 -a [printer(s)]  Shows  the  accepting  state of printer queues. If no printers are specified then all printers are listed.

No, I didn't use CUPS. (It asks for a password -- do I need to register for this, too?)

Using CUPS is necessary. No need to register, when it asks you for a user + password, you simply need to provide root credentials to have the permission to add the new printer to your system.

[maximus]

Nonetheless, I cannot get the printer set up with any flavor of Linux!

We'll see about that!

Thank you for the information. I am working on compiling and packaging the drivers for you, I hope you are using 32bit Salix as I spent half my evening trying to make them compile on my 64bit system, only to finally figure out the source is not 64bit compatible... They compile fine on 32bit though

Watch this space, I should have the packages ready for you tomorrow.

[SalmonEater]

Thank you very much, maximus, Shador and Akuna!
Yes, I'm using 32-bit Salix.

[maximus]

Well I managed to hack something together for you, I won't bore you with the details but it should work.

Install these two packages:
cnijfilter-common-3.30.1-i486-1mb.txz
cnijfilter-ip2700series-3.30.1-i486-1mb.txz

Restart the CUPS server (open terminal, su to root):

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/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart

Go to http://localhost:631/admin in your browser

Click on "Add Printer" and follow the steps.

I don't have your printer so I can't say exactly what you will need to select in CUPS, but it should be similar to what you see at the bottom of this guide at linuxforums, but of course substituting your printer model number for the one it mentions.

Hope it works!

[SalmonEater]

THANKS to all and especially, maximus, for the drivers for the Canon PIXMA iP2702 printers I just bought! Now they're running and doing what printers are supposed to do.

I simply did what you said with the compiled txz files, using <installpkg>; once done, the machine rebooted automatically but I ran the command anyway. Then I had to shut down for awhile.
Upon turning things on again. I went to http://loclahost:631/admin and the printer was listed right at the top. Great!

This forum is most helpful -- kudos to all!

[SalmonEater]

So how'd you do it, maximus?