Re: 12.04 & Canon printer (Geoffrey)

2012-06-03 Thread Peter Kukums
Hi all, I take everything back. I haven't printed to my Canon for quite a while and when I just tried it in Ubuntu 12.04 the computer acts like it is printing - i.e. no error messages but nothing is actually printed - same problem as Geoff. Scanning function still works though. Cheers, Peter On

Re: 12.04 & Canon printer

2012-06-03 Thread Chris Robinson
it seems that all of these drivers now get installed with cups (I don't think Michael has updated the PPA to work with 12.04 because of the cups update) Chris > > From: Geoffrey >To: Ubuntu-AU >Sent: Sunday, 3 June 2012 11:55 AM >Su

Re: 12.04 & Canon printer (Geoffrey)

2012-06-03 Thread Peter Kukums
Hi Geoffrey, I have a Canon MX350 printer which I managed to get working by downloading drivers for Linux from the Canon web site. I checked the web site and there are drivers for your printer, but I notice that they only have rpms. There is a program called alien that converts rpms to deb files.

12.04 & Canon printer

2012-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
I have upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 stepwise through intermediate upgrades. Now I find that my Canon iP4200 printer will not respond to data sent by Ubuntu. The iP4200 has always responded previously (since 9.04) although never properly in colour (I must switch to MS XP). The next printer that I bu