Mark Jarvis wrote: > 2) A friend has a Canon Pixma IP 1500 printer that he's trying to get > working on his Ubuntu 9.04 installation. Although the IP 2000 is > supported, the 1500 is not. He's managed to find, download, and install > drivers for it (quite impressive for someone that is very new to Linux) > but is now stumped by a "missing filter" message. I've never had to jump > through the hoops that he's already done and don't really know what sort > of a filter could be missing. Any suggestions? > > From the specs, the (unsupported) IP 1500 seem to be the same basic > engine as the (supported) IP 2000, just degraded slightly in speed & > memory. I've faked out systems before by telling the add printer wizard > that I really had a similar--but supported--printer, but that was with an > LPT connection. How does one do something similar with a USB connection? > (I'm hampered here in that I'm trying to help via phone and haven't > actually seen his box or the choices on his screen.) This should be the > easiest way to get him up & running.
http://rix.si/?ip1500 -or- http://www.canon- europe.com/Support/Software/Linux/2005/download.asp?ComponentID=369142&SourcePageID=312227#1 it's a SUSE RPM but it should be easily convertable to deb using alien. Or you can extract it and find any of a thousand guides online to install printer filters manually. Enjoy -- Ryan Rix Fedora KDE SIG Member, Phoenix AZ Ambassador, News KDE Beat Writer Please refrain from mailing me directly in replies, I am subsribing via GMane NNTP. Thank you. http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://identi.ca/phrkonaleash XMPP: phrkonale...@gmail.com | MSN: phrkonale...@yahoo.com AIM: phrkonaleash | Yahoo: phrkonaleash IRC: phrkon...@irc.freenode.net/#srcedit,#plugaz,#fedora-kde and countless other FOSS channels. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
