[SOLVED] Canon iP2700

[murraymint]

I've realised I never installed my printer, which I hardly ever use. I need to do something very similar to the 64-bit version of this:
https://forum.peppermintos.com/index.php/topic,913.msg7896.html#msg7896

but

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$ wget http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tiff3/libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
--2016-05-04 22:35:27--  http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/tiff3/libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Resolving cz.archive.ubuntu.com (cz.archive.ubuntu.com)... 217.31.202.63, 2001:1488:ffff::63
Connecting to cz.archive.ubuntu.com (cz.archive.ubuntu.com)|217.31.202.63|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2016-05-04 22:35:28 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Are these packages/drivers still available? I tried installing it automatically via Printers from the menu and it gets recognised but won't print anything. Thanks...

[PCNetSpec]

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wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/149178897/libtiff4_3.9.7-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[murraymint]

Thanks PCNetSpec, that did the trick

I've discovered my pdf viewer (Evince) is no good though, it wouldn't print (GNOME print preview worked). What's a good one to use?

[PCNetSpec]

Master PDF Editor
https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/
I'd include this in Peppermint if it were open source

[murraymint]

Hi, I want to install this again, in Peppermint 7 this time, but I'm getting "file not found" for the drivers. Is there any way to do this? I saw you recently helped out a user with the very similar iP2600, Mark, but he was using a 32-bit system and I'm on 64-bit. Cheers.


EDIT: the libtiff downloads but the "canon trunk" ppa is "unable to locate package", possibly because there's no version for Xenial.

[murraymint]

Just bumping this because it's not solved any more for PM7. I'm going to give this printer away to a Windows user anyway but it'd be nice to get it working one last time.

[PCNetSpec]

Try

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mark-pcnetspec/canon-printer

then

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sudo apt-get update

then

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sudo apt-get install cndrvcups-common cnijfilter-ip2700series

now set up the printer the normal way, selecting

Canon > IP2700

as the driver.


In the future, can you please not change the status of a topic marked as (SOLVED) to (un-SOLVED) just because you now want it for different version of Peppermint .. the ORIGINAL issue WAS solved for Peppermint 6 as asked, it doesn't become UNSOLVED just because you add another Peppermint version to the mix
(Ideally you'd have changed the title here to include "Peppermint 6", and started a new topic for Peppermint 7)

[murraymint]

Thanks, it installed! Now I'm wondering if there's any way to put it through a cleaning cycle in Linux, because I can't find one. The test page has sections missing/very faint.

[PCNetSpec]

No idea .. is there nothing in the driver properties for print head cleaning ?

and is the driver issue now (SOLVED) ? .. if so, can you please stop adding new issues to this topic, mark it solved, and start a new topic about head cleaning.

[murraymint]

Yeah, the driver's solved but the only maintenance option is to print a test page. I'll not bother starting another topic because I don't have a lot of time to sort this out.