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mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

I wish I could get this working. Its one of the last things I still have to turn to XP for. Somethings I have tried:

I have successfully set up 4.1.2 (and earlier 4.1 and 4.0) as a pass through printer server so I can print from XP through Puppy hooked up to the USB Canon i250. See for details:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22363&start=30
This is using a Samba and CUPS combo. It proves that my PC's (EeePC901) USB port is working fine at least.

But the holy grail of printing from within Puppy from any version to my Canon i250 still eludes me. Most recently I have been tryng with 4.2.

1) Tried out of the box first. No joy.
2) Then tried

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40444&start=105 (my post)

and in particular

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=274516
(by ttuuxxx)

3) finally tried rcrsn51's/jakfish's suggestion to use CUPS 1.3.9. I am also using an Eee like jakfish posts:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40607
and
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=290637#290637

In all cases I can run CUPS and add a printer but apart from a couple of blinks of the i250's green LED I get nothing out although in each case CUPS reports the printing was finished.

Any more ideas?

Regards Mike

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009, 16:22 Post subject:

I am confused by your references to the Samba server. Is it currently running on the Eee? If so, disable it. You don't need Samba to make a Puppy printer networkable.

How is your Canon i250 connected? As a local USB printer or as a remote networked printer?

Patriot · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734

Hmmm ...

I have only 2 comments here :

1. WindowsXP printing to a puppy shared printer can be done directly with ipp, example: http://puppypc:631/printers/canon-i250

That should work if you have the correct printer driver or at least a compatible driver installed. I believe you're using samba to bypass cups specifying a raw printer and if that's true it brings me to no 2 below.

2. This issue you're having sounds like with the printer driver itself. Can you tell me which canon driver are you using ?

From what I know (and I don't know much), canon i250 drivers are kinda specific (and somewhat outdated). Either use the one from here :

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0020547.asp
-or-
www.turboprint.info

Rgds

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009, 18:20 Post subject:

What CUPS driver have you tried to use with your i250?

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009, 18:39 Post subject:

The BJC250 and the i250 are two different animals.

Go to Patriot's first link, search for the i250 and get the two rpms. It looks like there's enough stuff in them for a CUPS driver for Puppy.

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009, 18:52 Post subject:

I checked the .deb file from your link and it looks like it's got the same content as the two rpm's.

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 06 Apr 2009, 19:22 Post subject:

Well, that's odd. In Puppy 4.1.2, I can click on the .deb file and it extracts into a folder named "usr". But in 4.2, I get an error.

In any case, once you have the extracted usr folder, you want to merge it with your main /usr folder. Open another ROX window and go up one level to /. Drag the new usr folder over into an empty space and let it merge. (There's probably a better way to do this.)

Then run CUPS. Let us know how it works out.

[Edit] In 4.2 you can install it from the console:

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 07:44 Post subject:

Glad to help.

Prior to Puppy 4.2, the Printer Wizard would automatically restart the CUPS daemon. This is necessary to make any new PPD files become visible. I have added the manual restart command to the code above.

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

It happened twice so I thinks its real. After installing the deb file above and then running CUPS, under the Canon list of printers there was only i255 and not i250. I added the i255 in any case but it does not make the i250 print but the strange thing is that I then modified the existing printer and in the drop down list i250 was there! After that it was plain sailing.

Thought it was worth reporting even though it does not seem logical.

Mike

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 07 Apr 2009, 14:37 Post subject:

I'm not surprised. CUPS 1.4b2 is buggy in a number of ways. If you want to mess around, try installing CUPS 1.3.9 from here. . I think that you will find it more stable.

BTW, could you please mark the initial title of the thread as "Solved".