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cannon printer will not print is their a plug in for it

Asked by pamela buffington

i got linux firefox computer, put in cd for my cannon pixma ip2600 printer, shows it is in there, light blinks on printer but nothing prints. is there something else i should have done to get it going

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 13 16:28:36 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #269977.

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pamela buffington (buffington8894) said : 		#1
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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Adam Buchbinder (adam-buchbinder) said : 		#3

The PIXMA iP2600 is supported according to linuxprinting.org:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_iP2600

However, the driver isn't included in the main Ubuntu distribution, as far as I can tell. You'll need to download and install two packages from Canon.

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100118902.html
http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100119102.html

Scroll to the bottom of each page and click 'Download'; you'll have the option to open the packages with 'GDebi' and install them. Do that, and you should be able to install the printer via the System->Administration->Printing tool, selecting the 'ip2600series' driver.

I should caution you that I don't have one of these printers, and I'm only reporting what I've seen elsewhere. There's a thread on the Ubuntu forums where some people went through finding and installing the drivers; I'm summarizing here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=775368

If you run into any problems, please reply here and I'll see what else I can do.

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