Ubuntu 10.04 Canon IP2600 Printer How-To

[MillDaKill]

Summery:
If you are like me and you own a Canon IP2600 printer you have probably found out that Ubuntu 10.04 does not set it up automagically. After doing a little reading and some trial and error I have figured out how to get it to work and I wanted to share my solution with you all. There is a good chance that if there are other Canon IPXXXX printers that are not supported in Ubuntu 10.04 that following steps similar to the ones I am giving for the IP2600 will work (YMMV and not tested).

Notes:
1.) I have only followed these steps on Ubuntu 10.04

2.) The computer I did it on was a 32bit machine

3.) Do not follow these steps on any kind of mission critical or production machine, spend the money and get a better supported printer.

4.) It is probably wise to make sure you have a backup of important files on your computer. This guide worked for me but it has not been rigorously tested by any means.

How-To:
0.) Read all 10 steps listed below before you start. If you are a trusting person, there is a shortcut on step 3 that can save you 10-20 minutes worth of work.

1.) Download the Canon IP2600 drivers from HERE. The file should be called iP2600_debiang.tgz .

2.) Unzip and un-archive iP2600_debiang.tgz

3.) Now the fun part... The .deb files included in the iP2600_debiang.tgz were built for an older version of ubuntu which reference a package called "cupsyslib2". This old package has been since renamed to "cupslib2" so we will have to re-build the .deb packages. There is a good guide on how to re-create the .debs HERE . Follow the guide in the link and when you edit the list of dependencies replace all "cupsyslib2" with "cupslib2". If you are a trusting person and you do not want to re-build your own .deb files I have uploaded the files I customized to mediafire.

cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb


4.) Install customized "common" deb

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

5.) Install customized "ip2600series" deb

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb

6.) Chown /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij to root:root

sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij

7.) Restart your computer

8.) Install the printer in Gnome via the menus at the top of your screen "System -> Administration -> Printers"

9.) Print a test page

10.) If you follow this guide, please let me know if it worked for you

[Palanthas]

Do you have a 64bit howto as well? lol, I was/am all excited about getting my iP2600 working and had all the files ready to go (used your's btw) but when I ran the first command it comes back with...

david@david-server:~$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb (--install):
 package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
david@david-server:~$

[Ellio-pc]

Thank you Milldakill I can now use my printer. I have so far only printed a test page but everything installed and worked flawlessly. Many thanks.

[issachan]

Oh thank you for the instructions! My printer is working finally! I was beginning to think I had a giant paper weight and would have to buy a new printer right away.

The only problem I have with the printer is that it doesn't recognize that it has paper so it's constantly stopping and complaining it has no paper.

Anyway, thank you so much!! You're awesome! =D>

[nickytchao]

I all!
first, I wanna thank issachan fot his post and his files!
Then I want to bring a good new for Palanthas and all the others that have a 64 bits machine with an ip2600.
to be simple, just take the files and use dpkg -i --force-architecture to install the .deb!
That's all!

Excuse me fot my english and thank you again!

[headmower]

Many thanks to MillDaKill, I used the download links for my canon ip2600 printer. First I saved the downloads and in stalled them with the g-deb installer and then used the sudo root command you supplied and my printer works just fine. This was the easiest install on ubuntu so far. headmower@gmail.com

[Pete051]

I found I was getting an "insecure cups filter" warning that refused to allow it to print but this turned out to be the files
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij
and
/usr/lib/cups/backend/cnij_usb
had the wrong group and owner, this was solved by:
sudo chgrp root /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnij_usb
sudo chown root /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnij_usb
sudo chgrp root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij
sudo chown root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij

and now it works

[rubini]

Hello,

I did the repackaging and installed the drivers successfully. I checked the links with ldd cifip2600 and linked the libs that were missing. And I chmoded the cups directories like indicated.

But unfortunately my Canon IP2600 is still not printing.
When sending a job to the printer the printer's green light flashes once and cups tells me that it has printed: (from /var/log/cups/access.log)

"POST /printers/iP2600-series HTTP/1.1" 200 205766 Print-Job successful-ok

the /var/log/cups/error.log is not showing any errors.

Is there any kind person who could help me troubleshooting this?

Thank you,
Rubén

[Anissita]

Thanks!.
It saved me a lot of work.

[roboghast]

moosh@moosh-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
moosh@moosh-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386_1004customized.deb
moosh@moosh-desktop:~$

your solution fails