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Revision as of 01:29, 7 January 2014
Contents
Introduction
This is a brief guide for installing the Canon iP1800, based on the wiki for installing the Canon iP4300 printer.
Requirements
The following packages will very likely be needed:
- cups
- ghostscript
- gsfonts
- gutenprint
Install with:
# pacman -S cups ghostscript gsfonts gutenprint
Now create a directory somewhere (for the sake of this tutorial let this directory be ~/canon) and cd to it.
Download drivers
Canon Australia provides the drivers in .rpm format, rpmextract will be needed later. Download drivers to ~/canon directory.
- cnijfilter-ip1800series http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0900718601.html
- cnijfilter-common http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0900718405.html
Install rpmextract
You will need this package to extract the content of the drivers
# pacman -S rpmextract
Extract drivers
# rpmextract.sh cnijfilter-ip1800series-2.70-1.i386.rpm # rmpextract.sh cnijfilter-common-2.70-1.i386.rpm
Move the files
The command rpmextract.sh should have created a usr/ directory in the folder with the rpms. Copy every file in this directory's subfolders into the corresponding actual location. e.g. copy the files in ~/canon/usr/lib/ to /usr/lib/ Do this for all files in all subdirectories, and remember, this has to be done with root privileges.
Install the printer with CUPS
CUPS now uses libusb instead of usblp. To read more on this, see the Arch Wiki page for CUPS#Blacklisting usblp. Unload the module if it is currently loaded:
# rmmod usblp
Disable it permanently by adding it in /etc/rc.conf:
MODULES=(... !usblp ...)
If cups was already running, restart it with
# /etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
If cups is not already running, start it with
# /etc/rc.d/cupsd start
Make the cups daemon start on boot by adding it to the daemons list in /etc/rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus ... @cupsd)
Now point your browser of choice at http://localhost:631 This should present the cups web interface. If not, ensure that cups is started (see above) and that your hosts are set-up correctly (or see the CUPS article).
- Click Add Printer
- Fill in the Name, Description and Location (not really very important)
- Choose the connection method for your printer, and fill in any details required for this.
- Now you will be prompted for a Make/Manufacturer - choose Provide a ppd file (click browse)
- Navigate to /usr/share/cups/model/ and choose canonip1800.ppd
Creating links for libs
The driver needs a few additional libraries for which you have to create links. You can find the missing libraries by running the executable files in /usr/local/bin/ that you have copied earlier. To verify which libraries need linking, run the following command:
# ldd /usr/local/bin/cifip1800
You'll probably have to link
# ln -s /usr/lib/libcnbpcmcm312.so.6.50.1 /usr/lib/libcnbpcmcm312.so # ln -s /usr/lib/libcnbpess312.so.3.0.9 /usr/lib/libcnbpess312.so # ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 # ln -s /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclapi312.so.3.3.0 /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclapi312.so # ln -s /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclbjcmd312.so.3.3.0 /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclbjcmd312.so # ln -s /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclui312.so.3.3.0 /usr/lib/libcnbpcnclui312.so
Installing from AUR
The second (and better) way to install drivers is from the AUR.
- cnijfilter-full270AUR compiles drivers from sources (well, there are still some blobs in the archive). It's available for both i686 and x86_64 (crosscompiling to i686). There are some issues with monitoring and ui utilities, they may not work, but at least printing itself works.