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davidlondonuk

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Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 49

HELP! canon ip1800 printer stops after cups update

Hi All,

After the recent cups update to 1.4.1-1, my little canon pixma ip1800 printer does not work.

I had used a couple of old debian packages to get the printer working when I first bought it: cnijfilter-common and the cnijfilter-ip1800. By using the deb2targz utility to unpack the debs, I was able to just write a short shell script to install the driver, which has worked well for ages.

I downloaded the AUR cnijfilter packages for this printer, installed or built all the dependencies, removed the old debian based printer driver and installed the AUR packages.

However, after a reboot, when I used the cups admin page (http://localhost:631) and tried to install the pixma ip1800, I keep getting the same error:

Bad device-uri "cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0"

I just don't understand why the AUR driver is not working, both parts built ok-any ideas?

I need this printer working again! Help.

Cheers for any help.

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: HELP! canon ip1800 printer stops after cups update

First things first :
http://www.archlinux.org/news/469/

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thefatprecious

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From: Austin, TX

Registered: 2009-02-13

Posts: 98

Re: HELP! canon ip1800 printer stops after cups update

I have the same printer. In addition to the steps outlined in the news entry I had to delete the printer from the cups admin panel and re-add it. Of course you'll have to redo any customizations you made to the ppd file so before you do this you may want to make a backup of that printer's ppd file (ie. /etc/cups/ppd/ Canon_iP1800_series.ppd ) to reference later.

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davidlondonuk

Member

Registered: 2009-06-24

Posts: 49

Re: HELP! canon ip1800 printer stops after cups update

Thanks,

Stopping the usblp module in /etc/rc.conf and reinstalling the printer via the cups interface did the trick-it works ok again!

von_Wanderlust

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 67

Re: HELP! canon ip1800 printer stops after cups update

In addition to the steps outlined in the news entry I had to delete the printer from the cups admin panel and re-add it.

Thanks!