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mistrob

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Registered: 2024-09-17

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[Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

I recently moved to Arch, and one of the few things I'm having a problem with is my Canon LBP613C printer.
I have the cnrdrvcups-lb canon drivers installed, I have installed and enabled cups, and installed ghostscript as it seems to require it for some odd reason.

I configured the print driver using socket:// and lpd:// and both can find the printer, see the toner count, and attempt to print but everything stays pending and I get an non-error saying cfFilterChain: ghostscript (PID 9591) exited with no errors.

I have used the auto detected driver as well as manually chosen the correct driver.  Restarted cups a few times.

journalctl -u cups -f returns nothing useful other than starting / stopping cups service.

I had no problems getting it working in Ubuntu & Debian, there I was using the native driver from Canon.  I installed and tested individually the two popular compatible Canon printer drivers from AUR, both seem to connect to the printer, but neither can submit a job.

Last edited by mistrob (2024-09-17 13:51:54)

Roken

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Re: [Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

Probably not an answer for your specific problem, but I had no end of problems with a Canon printer, until I tried turboprint (in AUR). It made such a difference I bought a license, and still use it for my HP printer.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

https://www.turboprint.info/printers_Canon.html doesn't list any LBP printers.

The cnrdrvcups-lb  package does use the official driver from canon, but canon only provides rpm and deb packages that don't work on archlinux without adjustments.

The cnrdrvcups-lb package builds from source, while cnrdrvcups-lb-bin (currently out of date) repackages the .deb binary for use on archlinux .

There have been cases where specific models worked with only one of those packages .

You did look at the optional deps for cnrdrvcups-lb and tried installing libjpeg6-turbo and  jbigkit ?

Archlinux and derivatives are not supported by canon. Use whatever works for you, even if that means using canon drivers in a VM that runs a supported distro .

There's a reason I put that line in a pinned comment .

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mistrob

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Registered: 2024-09-17

Posts: 6

Re: [Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

https://www.turboprint.info/printers_Canon.html doesn't list any LBP printers.

The cnrdrvcups-lb  package does use the official driver from canon, but canon only provides rpm and deb packages that don't work on archlinux without adjustments.

The cnrdrvcups-lb package builds from source, while cnrdrvcups-lb-bin (currently out of date) repackages the .deb binary for use on archlinux .

There have been cases where specific models worked with only one of those packages .

You did look at the optional deps for cnrdrvcups-lb and tried installing libjpeg6-turbo and  jbigkit ?

Archlinux and derivatives are not supported by canon. Use whatever works for you, even if that means using canon drivers in a VM that runs a supported distro .

There's a reason I put that line in a pinned comment .

libjpeg6-turbo was already installed but it worked after installing jbigkit.

Thanks!!

I was able to see and connect to the printer, but the printer would say "waiting on print" and then eventually just go back to sleep.  So it was communicating, looks like I was missing some image compression package.
Now it just prints like it did with Windows & Debian & Ubuntu.

Last edited by mistrob (2024-09-17 12:52:48)

seth

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Re: [Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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mistrob

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Registered: 2024-09-17

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Re: [Resolved] Canon Printer Woes

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

Thanks, I was looking for a "solved" but didn't see one.