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Echinos

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-12-01

Posts: 16

Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

I'm trying to run my Canon PIXMA iP1500 printer.
I instaled cups and gutenprint, configured printer in cups web interface. Printer appeared in System Settings / Printers but when I'm trying to print test page or any other file, printer doesn't respond.
How to fix this?

Additional info:

cups 1.5.0-1
gutenprint 5.2.7-3
ghostscript 9.04-5
gnome-shell 3.2.1-1

[echinos@desktop ~]$ lsusb | grep iP1500
Bus 007 Device 003: ID 04a9:1091 Canon, Inc. PIXMA iP1500

[echinos@desktop ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/007/003 
crw-rw-r-- 1 root lp 189, 770 12-01 12:58 /dev/bus/usb/007/003

[echinos@desktop ~]$ lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 35352  0 
hid                    82435  1 usbhid
usbcore               144432  4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Last edited by Echinos (2011-12-01 12:35:01)

scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 444

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

Have a look at your logs here: /var/log/cups/SOMETHING.log.

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Echinos

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-12-01

Posts: 16

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

Yes. In /var/log/cups/error_log the only warning which is repeating is

W [01/Dec/2011:13:30:16 +0100] [CGI] gnome-keyring:: no socket to connect to

Other files looks normal. Nothing suspicious. In fact, system behaves like there was no problem at all. When I try to print something, I'm notified about print start and print end but as I said before printer is not printing.

scar

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 444

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

1. dou you have another machine/os where you can verify if the printer is working AT ALL?

2. could you post this? (CODE)
   # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf

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David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

See if this is any help.  Likely a problem with libpng.so

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1007702

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129350

Echinos

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-12-01

Posts: 16

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

1. dou you have another machine/os where you can verify if the printer is working AT ALL?

I'm using this printer on Windows 7. Works perfect.

2. could you post this? (CODE)
   # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf

Sure:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.5.0
# Written by cupsd on 2011-12-01 12:58
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<DefaultPrinter Canon_iP1500>
UUID urn:uuid:b6c9c2d4-1f29-3ecd-5451-f4e1f445d284
Info Canon iP1500
Location Dom
MakeModel Canon PIXMA iP1500 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7
DeviceURI usb://Canon/iP1500?serial=10CN3Y
State Idle
StateTime 1322740685
Type 45068
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>
<Printer Virtual_PDF_Printer>
UUID urn:uuid:520a4dc9-1f89-39fd-6381-1f148cbcd905
Info Virtual PDF Printer
Location 
MakeModel Generic CUPS-PDF Printer
DeviceURI cups-pdf:/
State Idle
StateTime 1322740065
Type 8450124
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>

See if this is any help.  Likely a problem with libpng.so
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1007702
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129350

I'm trying to run this printer using opensource Gutenprint drivers, not those old drivers provided by Canon. According to that site my printer should work (although support is at experimental state).

As far as I remember i was able to run this printer on Ubuntu, but no luck on Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD. The same behavior. Need to check 11.04.

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Canon PIXMA iP1500 not printing

I have a feeling those "old" Canon drivers will give you the best results with the most options once you get them working.  I believe the Gutenprint drivers are more generic.  The problem file seems to be libpng12.so.  One user renamed libpng14.so to libpng12.so and reported success (I copied libpng12.xx.so from another distro install and had success).  The Turboprint drivers probably work pretty well, but you have to pay money for those.