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Sova007

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From: Paris

Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 8

Need some help for printer canon mp520 pls

Hello, big community!!!
  I'm really interested by archlinux but i didn't manage to find a good package or a way to install my printer canon mp520, so does anyone know how to install my printer???
  Thanks for your concern see ya everybody and hope someone will solve my problem!!!!!;)

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Need some help for printer canon mp520 pls

I'm afraid it doesn't look good with the standard Canon drivers that are currently available.

Check out this link: http://openprinting.org/show_printer...on-PIXMA_MP520

However, Turboprint claim that their driver will support your printer.

Unfortunately, it is not free, but you can download a trial, to make sure that it works for you.

Here's a link: http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

Regards,
Roger

Last edited by Wintervenom (2009-03-04 23:50:11)

Sova007

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From: Paris

Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 8

Re: Need some help for printer canon mp520 pls

Nobody has another solution???
thanks man for your answer...

turok40

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 2

Re: Need some help for printer canon mp520 pls

Here is what I did:

1. Install yaourt
2. Using yaourt tool, install cnijfilter-common-old and cnijfilter-mp520
3. For me the binaries were placed only in /usr/bin and I was banging my head for days until looking a million times at the CUPS error log...turns out it was looking in /usr/local/bin for a certain file.

"/bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/cifmp520: No such file or directory"

So, just in case if the other bin files need to go there too, do these as root:

cp /usr/bin/cifmp520 /usr/local/bin
cp /usr/bin/cngpij /usr/local/bin
cp /usr/bin/cngpij /usr/local/bin
cp /usr/bin/cngpijmonmp520 /usr/local/bin
cp /usr/bin/lgmonmp520 /usr/local/bin
cp /usr/bin/printuimp520 /usr/local/bin

4. Edit your ppd (/usr/share/cups/model/canonmp520.ppd) file to allow better resolution settings (make sure you don't leave behind a canonmp520.ppd~ file, delete it if it is there after saving and quiting editor):
Replace:

*OpenUI *Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne
*DefaultResolution: 600
*Resolution 600/600 dpi: "<</HWResolution[600 600]>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *Resolution

With:

*OpenUI *CNQuality/Quality: PickOne
*DefaultCNQuality: 4
*CNQuality 2/High: "2"
*CNQuality 3/Normal: "3"
*CNQuality 4/Standard: "4"
*CNQuality 5/Economy: "5"
*CloseUI: *CNQuality

*OpenUI *Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne
*DefaultResolution: 600
*Resolution 600/600 dpi: "<</HWResolution[600 600]>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 1200/1200 dpi: "<</HWResolution[1200 1200]>>setpagedevice"
*Resolution 2400/2400 dpi: "<</HWResolution[2400 2400]>>setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *Resolution

5. I then added appropriate group and access for the user to be able to do admin tasks for printer:

sudo groupadd lpadmin
sudo usermod -aG lpadmin *username*
sudo usermod -aG lp *username*

6. log out / log in

7. Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add lpadmin to the SystemGroup line

8. Restart CUPS:

sudo /etc/rc.d/cups restart

9. Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:631/
10. Click on Administration tab and click on Find New Printers. Your printer should come up here, click on it and use the Canon MP520 Series v.2.80 Driver. If there are 2 of them, make sure you didn't leave a backup file behind from editing the ppd file (possibly a ~ backup file). You may need to "see hidden files".
11. It defaults on rear tray, I personally use the front tray. Your choice. Should be good to go, try out a test page.

Hope this helps everybody...anybody. In the meantime, I just overcame the /usr/local/bin obstacle, gonna see about contacting the AUR peeps about the installation of the package.

kesara10

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 13

Re: Need some help for printer canon mp520 pls

Just wanted to thank you for th epost 'turok40'.
These instructions worked for the Canon Pixma MP160 as well.