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[opensuse-mobile] Unable to get printing working on Canon iP4500 with Suse 10.3
  • From: William Portal <william.portal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:16:03 +0100
  • Message-id: <4837EAE3.1060504@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I have bought a copy of Open Suse (310059239/10) and am running it on a Sony VGN-NR21Z. Mostly it works very well, but one of two things I am having diuficulty with is printing on a Canon iP4500. The Canon web-site says that it is supported and Suse seems to recognize the printer. However, when I install it using the Canon drivers (http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028476.asp?model=) but I am not sure they work. When I try and print a file, I can see it Queued in KJobViewer, but it won't print. The iP4500 printer icon is shown with a small red cross on it, indicating a problem. I think there is a problem relating to how the file is spooled to the printer. Do I need to set up a spooler and does it relate to the parameters in the command below?
lpadmin -p IP4500 -m canonip4500.ppd -v cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -E

If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. Regards,
William Portal.

The printer installation with the Canon drivers worked as follows,

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # rpm -ivh cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:cnijfilter-common ########################################### [100%]

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # rpm -ivh cnijfilter-ip4500series-2.80-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:cnijfilter-ip4500series########################################### [100%]

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # /etc/init.d/cups restart
Shutting down cupsd done
Starting cupsd done

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p IP4500 -m canonip4500.ppd -v cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0 -E
(note this ran quickly with no output)

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -d IP4500

(restarted the computer)

sony21z:/home/william/drivers # cupsenable IP4500



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