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Howto : Install Canon LBPxxxx printer on Ubuntu | 10.11 Natty Narwhal

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Ubuntu

This tutorial will show you how to install Canon LPB2900 on Ubuntu,debian lenny and LinuxMint, tested also on Canon LBP3100 and is working, and should work on all the Canon laser printers LBP XXXX Series.This tutorial is an update of my ealier one but just for Ubuntu,debian lenny and LinuxMint. See my original Tutorial if you want to install CanonLBPxxxx in other linux distribution.

1st Method (Adviced): Installation in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10 and Ubuntu 11.11 Natty Narwhal :

This method consist in using RADU script, I tested this script in my Ubuntu 10.10 and LBP2900 and is working fine,

The current supported printer models for the 1.90 release of the driver are: LBP-1120, LBP-1210, LBP2900, LBP3000, LBP3010, LBP3018, LBP3050, LBP3100, LBP3108, LBP3150, LBP3200, LBP3210, LBP3250, LBP3300, LBP3310, LBP3500, LBP5000, LBP5050, LBP5100, LBP5300, LBP7200C.

- To install the driver, download the script from here,, extract it to your home directory, then run this command:

 

sudo ./canonLBP_install.sh PRINTER_MODEL

PRINTER_MODEL : Use your model of printer

- When the driver is installed, go to Menu–> Administration–> Printer and disable LBPxXxx-2, don`t remove it because the system will creat it again. Now set LBPxxxx in my case LBP2900 AS DEFAULT PRINTER.

- Now restart your computer

Method2 :

Before to start the installation of Canon LBP2900 please check if these packages are installed

1/3: cups-common
2/3: portreserve
3/3: cups

 

If all is installed then we go further with the installation steps :

1- Download the driver from here, or from :

Download from this Link

The 2.0 driver download can be found here: 2.0E Driver tar.gz. Includes source, RPM, DEB and Documentation on how to install. The driver is reported working for the current Canon series :

 

 

Printers reported to work with version 2.0 on Lucid

  • LBP810
  • LBP3010
  • LBP3200

Printers reported to work with version 1.9 on Jaunty & Karmic

  • LBP810
  • LBP2900
  • LBP3000
  • LBP3010
  • LBP3200
  • LBP1120
  • LBP1210
  • LBP5050
  • LBP5050n

2- Change to the folder where you download the driver and extract it, in my case :

 cd /home/zinovsky/

3- Extrat the driver to your home directory

tar xvf CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_V200_uk_EN.tar.gz 


4- Change to the folder where you extract the drivers , exactly to the debian drivers, in my case :


/Desktop/CAPT_Printer_Driver_for_Linux_V200_uk_EN/driver/debian 


ls


Output


 cndrvcups-capt_2.00-2_i386.deb  cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386.deb



(Newbies you can go directly to the folder and install the driver by clicking on the files in this order first common and then install capt then continue the installation from Step 8)







5- Now install the debian package using the command :


sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_2.00-2_i386.deb


and


 sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt_2.00-2_i386.deb 


N.B if you got an error while trying to install the drivers,then use this command to correct the error


sudo apt-get -f install 


Driver is installed .


6- Now we have to restart CUPS :


sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart





7- Now type :


/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP2900 -m CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E





N.B : If you are trying to install another LBP printer other than LBP2900 then use the command bellow   and choose the CNCUPSLBPxxxxCAPTK.ppd 


that correspond to your printer model and replace it in the the command above.


ls /usr/share/cups/model/ |grep CNCUPS 


8-and then


  /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o /dev/usb/lp0


N.B : If you are trying to install another LBP printer other than LBP2900 then change LBP2900 in the command above with your LBPxxxx printer 


output : 





 


9- Start ccpd :


sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd start


10- Now Set ccpd to start when you startup your computer:


For debian use :


sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 20


for other distributions i prefer this methode :


gedit /etc/rc.local


and add at the end :


 /etc/init.d/ccpd start


save and close


11- Printer is ready to print :)


Status Monitor :


to monitor printing type :


captstatusui -P LBP2900





 Important for Ubuntu9.04 jaunty jackalope  : 


If after following this tutorial you still can not print, and you got appear a second printer LBP29002 , then use this command :


1-If you got a second printer LBP29002 that appear as installed, use this command first :


lpadmin -x LBP29002 && sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd restart && sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart 


If you can print so is ok, if not continue bellow


2- Remove this package :


sudo apt-get remove hal-cups-utils 


3–Setup a launcher with a right click on your desktop and choose Create launcher :


then enter this command in the command place :


gksudo /etc/init.d/ccpd restart && /etc/init.d/cups restart 







 And everything will work perfectly. I already test it several times and is working. 


N.B :   Please don`t forget to report any issue in our forum for Canon Printers (Link to the Forum)





Thanks to everybody that helped to resolve issues with Jaunty or by reporting issues or by suggestions, special thank to Ricardo


N.B : Comments are disabled in this post,   Please don`t forget to report any issue in our forum for Canon Printers (Link to the Forum)


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For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com 











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133 Comment(s)

  • Dim

    Why not write instructions for human beings, after all you’re talking about Ubuntu and Mint:
    1. Download the .tar.gz
    2. Right-click, choose “Extract here”
    3. Go to the folder where files have been extracted and install by double clicking first “..common” and then “..capt” file
    4. Restart

    … not sure if it’s possible to rewrite the rest commands, as I don’t understand their meanings but you get the idea.

  • luluprat

    :(
    after a reboot the printer doesn’t work even if i stop and restart ccpd… why

    • zinovsky

      Which distribution you are using ? and which driver version you used 1.80 or earlier version ?

      • luluprat

        :oops:
        I use mint 7 and 1.6 driver …
        but i have to make more test to tell you exactly what happen …
        it seems to work again after i kill ccpd process …
        tomorow i tell you
        thanks for the fast reply

        • zinovsky

          For LinuxMint7 Gloria i test it with driver 1.6 several times and is working
          perfectly, please if you have any issue report it so we can help you to resolve
          it :)

          • luluprat

            hello
            i turn on my laptop without docking cable to the printer. the ccpd is start at the boot time .
            when i connect the printer it is not recognise.
            i have to kill the process ccpd(ccpd stop doesn’t work) and ccpd start to work with…

  • http://na Martin

    worked fine until first reboot when printer automatically re-installed, giving two versions of printer which both did not work. Thanks, this is as close to a resolve as yet!

    • luluprat

      :(
      another error is the duplex mode on the lpb 5100 that doensn’t work at all:
      [Job 41] pstocapt3 write error,32.

      • zinovsky

        luluprat, if you got this message this mean that there are permission problem, please use this command to make fifo accesible for all

        sudo chown lp:lp /var/ccpd/fifo0
        :)

    • zinovsky

      Martin, Did this happened on Uuntu Jaunty ? and which driver version you used ?

      • luluprat

        i had done this before testing :
        sudo chown lp:lp /var/ccpd/fifo0
        and i have this error :
        pstocapt3 write error,32.

        this only happen in duplex mode
        i am under jaunty .. is it the problem ?

        • zinovsky

          This mean that the printer is working just in duplex mode not?
          as i said before under Mint7 work perfectly, please if you got any error give put the output on the forum under canon printer topic

  • slay

    it stops on step 5…

    this is what it gives back:

    Jun 12 21:09:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 2998.159515] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
    Jun 12 21:09:39 ubuntu kernel: [ 2998.182129] usblp0: removed
    Jun 12 21:09:40 ubuntu kernel: [ 3000.236045] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
    Jun 12 21:09:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 3000.380753] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Jun 12 21:09:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 3000.384728] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0×2676
    Jun 12 21:19:24 ubuntu python: hp-info[6600]: warning: No display found.
    Jun 12 21:19:25 ubuntu python: hp-systray[6601]: warning: No display found.
    Jun 12 21:19:28 ubuntu python: hp-info[6600]: warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running?
    Jun 12 21:40:04 ubuntu — MARK –
    Jun 12 21:59:31 ubuntu python: hp-systray[9994]: warning: Qt/PyQt 4 initialization failed.

    what should i do now?

    • pirat9

      maybe you need some dependencies .

      please
      apt-get install python Qt4 Qt PyQt4

      and try again !!!!

  • David

    Can’t seem to get this working. Everything installs OK but I get the following message from the Step 10—

    Could not transfer data to the printer because of the large amount of data, or a data transfer error occurred.
    Click Resume to resume printing from the top of the page which was not printed completely.

    I am trying to install a LBP 3100 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. The file I am trying to print is a one page text document.

  • Linette

    Great stuff!
    Had a few problems as my ccpd seemed to be hanging, and I was forced to kill -9 it (!) but now it’s printing like a charm!

    You’ve managed to help me where squillions of sites have failed. Thanks! :)

  • Abu Balqis

    Dear Zinovsky
    Thanks a lot for the tutorial
    Finally my printer installed in jaunty..

  • kdblitz

    hello, I’m currently using fedora 11 and I’ve successfully printed on my printer. unfortunately, after restart, I cannot seen to print any file anymore. :(

    furthermore, when i type:
    captstatusui -P LPB2900
    I get this:
    *** captstatusui Socket Error ***

    I’ve tried restarting ccpd and cups, but the problem still persists.

    PS can I find a link to the 1.3 driver?
    http://downloads.unixmen.com/drivers/CANONLBP2900/CAPTDRV130.tar.gz is dead.
    I’ll try my luck there since i used 1.6 now. thanks!

  • zinovsky

    The driver 1.6 is good for fedora 11,no need to use 1.3
    see this topic in the forum :
    [url=http://www.unixmen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=138]Canon LBP2900 printer installation issues on Linux[/url]

    and also Check how many printers appear in your printer list for example if you see :
    LBP29001 and LBP29002

    • Rob Hurle

      Zinovsky, Thanks heaps for your work on Canon printers. I have an LBP7200Cdn printer which is a network printer. I’ve carefully followed your tutorial for the LBP2900 but can not get the printer to work on Lenny. I had to replace your USB device with "socket://192.168.87.12:9100" as this is what the printer’s IP is, and it listens on port 9100. It seems to be a communications problem. The debian system can communicate with the printer on port 80 OK (see the toner left, etc, etc). Mostly I have tried to do all of the configuration through CUPS. Any ideas on getting the Canon drivers working in this situation? Thanks again.

  • Anonymous

    Many, many thanks!!! Excellent tutorial. This solve one of my biggest problems in Ubu.
    :)
    Regards

  • m1r0

    Hello people,

    i have folowed all steps from this guide but this time printing is not working :(

    OS: Ubuntu 9.04 32bit
    Driver: 1.60
    (installed all 3 files needed before driver)

    captstatusui -P LBP2900 gives window without printer ready status (just empty)

    also what i have noticed that i dont get LBP2900 and LBP29002 anymore.

    any help is appriciated

  • Anonymous

    great!!! it`s works on Jaunty with 1.60 drives. Many, many thanks, Zinovsky :)

  • zinovsky

    You`re welcome :)

  • Paul

    Hello Zinovsky

    First of all, thank you for providing such beautifully clear instructions. I’ve had a Canon LBP5000 for a while now and had it running nicely from Hardy through to Intrepid & Jaunty .04 and I wish I’d seen this guide when going through the hoops.

    I’m now running the (final?) beta of Karmic and I think there have been changes to cups. It seems that cups is not recognising the old libcupsys2 (I think there was a dummy to handle this previously?). I think they’ve totally dropped the ‘sys’ suffix but the Canon driver still needs it.

    Do you have any ideas for this? Here’s what happens when I try to install the cndrvcups common deb package:

    [quote]sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.6*.deb
    Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-common.
    (Reading database … 154162 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_1.60-1_i386.deb) …
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common:
    cndrvcups-common depends on libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.23); however:
    Package libcupsys2 is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    cndrvcups-common
    [/quote]

    Thanks for looking

    Paul

  • Paul

    [quote]sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.6*.deb
    Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-common.
    (Reading database … 154162 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_1.60-1_i386.deb) …
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common:
    cndrvcups-common depends on libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.23); however:
    Package libcupsys2 is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    cndrvcups-common[/quote]

  • Paul

    oh – of course, this is what happens if I try and install libsyscup2:

    [quote]sudo apt-get install libcupsys2
    [sudo] password for paul:
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Note, selecting libcups2 instead of libcupsys2
    libcups2 is already the newest version.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.[/quote]

  • zinovsky

    Thank you for your post, the truth i still diden`t start yet to test canon LBPXXXX in Karmic, i think is the time because just few days and karmic final will be released, i will install the beta version tomorow in my laptop ( I have karmic now but installed on Virtualbox) and will try to install my LBP2900 on it.From y think is problem of dependencies, try this command :
    [quote]sudo apt-get install build-essential[/quote]
    i will test and will keep you informed.
    I opened a Topic on the forum for canon LBPXXXX Series on Karmic at the forum, there we have where to past outputs than here in comments :

    [url]http://www.unixmen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=271[/url]

  • Paul

    Thanks for this Cory.

    I get libsys going with this and capt and common install fine, but my test print is hanging in the queue

  • muaddip

    i really thank you for tutorial. at the end my printer worked

    • zinovsky

      You are welcome,In which ubuntu version you installed the printer ?

  • waz

    i followed tutorial from start to end on 9.10 32bit with 1-60 drivers from cannon. printer not printing(in que) or showing up in captstatusui -P LBP2900. after restart even prints: *** captstatusui Socket Error ***
    any help is appriciated…

  • zinovsky

    Is workinggg in ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala :) , i just test it this afternoon. I rebuid the driver 1.60 , you can [url=http://sites.google.com/site/unixmenhowtostutorials/Home/CAPTDRV160-unixmen.tar.gz?attredirects=0]download it from here[/url].
    [url=http://www.unixmen.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=31]For issues post in the forum please[/url]

  • Anonymous

    I installed firstly at 9.04 then i got a problem and i could install printer 9.10 very easly

  • John T

    Thank you for all of your efforts.

    I’ve tried installing your new drivers under 9.10 and the installation problem proceeds without a hitch!

    However I,ve tried both the terminal based printer install that you suggest and the automatic process and both result in a printer which seems perfect in every respect, except it does not print. I get the following lines in the message log.

    Do you have any advice please

    Nov 4 14:28:46 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1967.404359] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 4
    Nov 4 14:28:46 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1967.404483] usblp0: removed
    Nov 4 14:28:51 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1972.128021] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
    Nov 4 14:28:51 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1972.308091] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    Nov 4 14:28:51 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1972.312237] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x266E
    Nov 4 14:28:53 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1973.619369] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:29:15 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1995.937196] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:29:26 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2007.154475] c3pldrv[7045]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bfd1193c error 4 in libc-2.10.1.so[110000+13e000]
    Nov 4 14:30:28 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2069.196112] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:31:04 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2104.808460] c3pldrv[7554]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bfbf59bc error 4

  • John T

    Those last few lines …
    Nov 4 14:28:51 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1972.312237] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x266E
    Nov 4 14:28:53 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1973.619369] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:29:15 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 1995.937196] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:29:26 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2007.154475] c3pldrv[7045]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bfd1193c error 4 in libc-2.10.1.so[110000+13e000]
    Nov 4 14:30:28 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2069.196112] usb 1-4: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while ‘usb’ sets config #1
    Nov 4 14:31:04 psynapse-laptop kernel: [ 2104.808460] c3pldrv[7554]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bfbf59bc error 4

  • nilay

    in my lbp2900 canon print when i give print test page then it’s working vry fine but when i tried to print a document the it’s not working……….plz help…

  • paul

    zinovsky, you are a star :D

    thanks so much for repackaging the drivers to sort out the cupsys issue. My LBP5000 now works perfectly in karmic koala 9.1. I haven’t rebooted yet but it’s looking good so far.

    (I can’t seem to print to lpr but it seems not related to the canon driver)

    Thanks again

    Paul

  • John T

    Hi,

    Following on from my previous, I have a nasty feeling I know what the problem is; while the Canon drivers work perfectly with the 5200 (same as 5100), the USB product ID (04A9:266E) is most likely different. Will cppd cope with this please?

    Again many thanks for undertaking a difficult but much needed task.

  • Derek

    Great stuff Zinovsky, many thanks for going through the trouble of repackaging.

    Any chance of an update for Ubuntu Karmic on amd64 ?

    rgds

    Derek

  • alessio

    Hello I tried your method on Karmik and When I type the line [b]sudo /etc/init.d/ccps start[/b], the output is

    [b]Starting /usr/sbin/ccpd: .[/b]

    I don’t understand what those means, and of course the printer’s doesn’t work. There’s somebody can hel me?

  • sravankumar

    Hi Iam trying to enable canon LBP3100 on a customized linux.
    captstatusui is giving the Printer error as
    “Check the Devicepath of /etc/ccpd.conf”.
    verified the configuration(cupsd.conf and ccpd.conf) and it looks ok.
    Is there any ways of debugging CCPD daemon.

    Thanks in advance

  • http://it-pu.com Frank

    Thanks a lot for your tutorial.
    On my Debian 5 – lenny works fine.
    Only thing is strange that needs about 30-40 sec to start printing, on ubuntu or windows OS, canon LBP2900 starts printing immediately.
    Otherwise, it works fine, thanks for your work here.

  • kenturion

    i use ubuntu 9.04 and 1.6 driver
    when i type :
    captstatusui -P LBP3200
    i get this :
    **(captstatusui:12549):WARNING**:Invalid borders specified for the pixmap :/home/pauly.themes/eLeopard/gtk-2.0/buttons-default.png,borders don’t fit within the image
    please help
    :evil:

  • wenki

    hello,I’m a Chinese user.Why I could not download the package named CAPTDRV160-unixmen.tar.gz.Could you send the package to my email:wenki2004@yeah.net.Thanks a lot

  • wenki

    Hi,my OS is ubuntu9.1 I install the canon2900 dirver in my OS,but it doesn’t work,I want uninstall it and try install again,how do I uninstall the canon2900 driver.

  • wenki

    Hello，I use CAPTDRV160-unixmen.tar.gz installed following the Tutorials.Every step is ok .but when I enter “captstatusui -P LBP2900″order the screen says*** captstatusui Socket Error ***.and LBP 2009-2 is in print list .(My OS is ubuntu 9.1/n/l.and I use it in VM7.0.)
    What shall I do?

  • waz

    hello Mr Zinovsky,

    after DL 1.60 unixmen drivers for 9.10(32bit), gone thru tutorial till end , printer status not working… just empty status window.

    two printers display 2900 and 2900-2 …

    any tips are appriciated…

  • waz

    in addition, there is nothing from cannon on lsusb list but cups display printer in cups admin page…

  • Sparc

    Hi, thanks for the tutorial. Unfortunately, it does not work for me.
    I use Ubuntu 9.04.

    When I type: captstatusui
    I get: *** captstatusui Socket Error ***

    What could that be?

  • Sparc

    Sorry, I meant to say: “captstatusui -P LBP1120″

    I’m trying to install a LBP1120

  • Sparc

    I got it to work, after I followed your
    instructions for the third time.
    I must have made a small mistake!
    Does this also work with the latest
    Ubuntu, 9.10 ?

  • zinovsky

    Actually with ubuntu9.10 still not working prooperly, you will have problems after restarting (with ubuntu9.10) hope that will resolve this issue soon.
    Thanks for everybody s comments

    • navin

      I tried everything that is listed in the steps to make my printer work in karmic, no use so far. The problem is still there or rectified?

      printer: canon lbp2900b
      Os: ubundu 9.10
      driver: CAPTDRV160-unixmen.tar.gz

      When I do captstatusui -P LBP2900 .. nothing is getting displayed in the resulting GUI.

      all the print test pages gets disappeared without printing from the print queue. Where am I missing out?

  • Bhaskar

    It worked like a charm on Karmic koala.
    I downloaded the driver built by you and just followed your steps.

    thanks for your help!

  • ajpattel

    HI all,

    First I would like to thanks all for this nice article.
    My problem is little bit different,I am connection canon LBP-3300 with linux system with CUPS and canon linux driver and shared with linux-samba-print server.

    Now we have some windows system too and wants to get print from windows to linux connected canon CAPT printer.

    is there any way to do this?

    thank you.

  • Skrblik

    Haloo ,guys ,after all restarts or switching off/on printer i get second printer and cant printing.After using command lpadmin -x LBP29002 && sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd restart && sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart is everything OK and printer working.Pleas help me fix this problem

  • navin

    Thanks a lot zinovsky! It worked! I made a mistake earlier. didn’t check for the dependency, portreserve was not installed, but it didn’t throw up any dependency problem. it started to work after that was rectified, but it was short lived.I noticed a second printer, so i deleted the second printer and rebooted the system. It didn’t work after that. I left it for few days and thought I would work again on it with a fresh mind. Right after booting today, I tried to print, and it printed without any problem! Cant really figure out what was the reason behind it! Thanks for the driver and for the help in setting it up.

  • nert

    Hi Everybody I am new to Ubuntu (to Linux in fact…) and of course my LBP2900 didn’t work in the first place…

    …after spending hours trying and reading posts I finally found an solution. It’s derived from a post in the german ubuntu Forum “Installing the LBP5000″. It works pretty well and is very logical to me. I found out that the most important thing is to switch the printer (LBP 2900) off during the installation and to use the CAPT Driver Version 2.0!

    Since I was so happy to get the LBP2900 working that I posted my solution on my Blog. You will find a link to the driver aswell.

    My Blog: http://www.sunscreen.blog.com

    I hope it works for You! I’d be happy for Feedback.[size=medium][/size][color=black][/color]

  • anka

    great! its work perfect on Lucid Lynx (Canon LBP2900, drivers 2.0). Thank You :)

    PS. >> after installation drivers by GUI: “(Newbies you can go directly to the folder and install the driver by clicking on the files in this order first common and then install capt then continue the installation from Step 8)”
    i continued from step 6 (restart cups)
    PPS. printers window: menu “help”=>”solving problem”

  • Gustavo

    Hy Unixmen!
    Thank you for your tips, but unfortunatelly LBP1120 just does not work on ubuntu 10.4.
    I installed many times, followed different configurations and untill now, the printer is dead :(
    Do you have any ideias?

  • http://acooda.com acooda

    드디어 잠자고 있던 프린터가 깨어났습니다!

    9.04이전까지 계속 안되다가 9.10에선 아예신경을 안쓰던 프린터

    lucid에서 이 튜토리얼 보고 성공 했네요.

    지금까지 리눅스 사용하면서 처음으로 프린터연결 성공해보네요 :)

    기념으로 글 남깁니다.

    i really thank you for your tutorial

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  • simran

    i am using ubuntu 10.4. i have canon lbp-1210. i did as u said above. i even did apt-get build-essentials which is mentioned in above replies. further while trying to install for second time in step 10, after this “sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 20″, i added “# /etc/init.d/ccpd start” in rc.local (before exit 0). also tried restarting.

    but still i am unable to get a print. what further information i must provide to u for help?

  • http://radu.cotescu.com Radu

    By far, the easiest way to install the LBP printers on both amd64 (btw, your method does not cover for the 64-bit users) and i386 is to use a script I wrote which makes all the install process a one line “nobrainer”.

    The script’s details are [url=http://radu.cotescu.com/2010/03/20/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/]here[/url].

  • http://goinggnu.wordpress.com shrinivasan

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot for this article.
    I am struggling with my printer for 1 year.
    Because of this, we could not move to linux in my office.

    I followed the article.
    It printed only one page.
    after that no response.

    How to troubleshoot it?
    any log file?

    –

    sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o /dev/usb/lp0

    CUPS_ConfigPath = /etc/cups/
    LOG Path = None
    UI Port = 59787

    Entry Num : Spooler : Backend : FIFO path : Device Path : Status
    —————————————————————————-
    [0] : LBP2900 : ccp : /var/ccpd/fifo0 : /dev/usb/lp0 : Modified

    —

    captstatusui -P LBP2900

    shows empty window.

    —

    Please help me.

    Thanks a lot.

  • Matti

    :D
    Following the instructions, plus doing
    chmod a+rw /dev/usb/lp0
    and restarting ccpd instead of just starting, i.e.
    sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd restart
    Have Fun
    Matti

  • khushali

    where do type in the step 7 ?
    i have it installed and restarted my computer.

  • khushali

    im using the Ubuntu 9.10 – the karmic Koala

  • http://radu.cotescu.com Radu

    @Zinovsky: Have you had the time to test the script?

  • David Liell

    I am using Lucid 10.04 with Canon LPB3100 and latest drivers. I cannot print a PDF file using Acroread. It just loops without any output.
    I now just use Evince Document Viewer which prints OK.

  • http://daa.fi Ville Tiensuu

    I use Ubuntu 9.10, and i have Canon LBP-5200 printer.
    I tried to get it working, but i cant do it whit these commands. Printer is just not working. I cant connect to my printer, and when i try to use Ubuntu:s own printer adding manager, it says "There is no driver for Canon LBP-5200 Printer".
    What i do?

  • http://kdbwnf.wordpress.com kdbwnf

    Hi. My printer worked once after first installation but when I restart the computer , it doesn’t work.
    I tried to reinstall the printer but i receive this error in step 10 :
    "
    update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/ccpd missing LSB information
    update-rc.d: see
    "
    Can you help me?

    (Sorry about my English!)

    • Zinovsky

      Hello Sindo,
      I didn`t have time to look into the issues of canon, now there is a nice script from radu and is working fine try this[url=http://radu.cotescu.com/2010/03/20/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/]this link[/url]

      • A Dominic

        I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. AND the Link U mentioned doesnt work

  • Andries

    stupid question, but i installed 2.00 and should ahve installed 1.9 how do i delete 2.0?

  • Andries

    okay i got the file extracted and all. however this is what happened at step 8

    [u]linuxmint ronsard #[/u] /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o/dev/usb/lp0
    Please input -o [Printer Device Path]
    [u]linuxmint ronsard # [/u]/dev/usb/lp0
    bash: /dev/usb/lp0: Permission denied

    help…serious newby here

  • mfrerebeau

    Printers reported to work with version 2.0 on Lucid

    LBP1120

    Thanks a lot for tuto !!

  • gord r.

    anything for canon pixma ip2200 printer ?

  • Zinovsky

    [quote=gord r.]anything for canon pixma ip2200 printer ?[/quote][url=http://www.unixmen.com/hardware-linux/251-install-canon-pixma-ip1880-in-linux]For Pixma check this post[/url]

  • Anonymous

    enter your message here…

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    The business loans suppose to be very useful for guys, which want to start their business. In fact, that’s comfortable to receive a consolidation loan.

  • http://enteryoursiteURL... Frank

    Unixman, you’are the Man! I have the same printer LBP2900 and followed your basically similar instructions from Ubuntu 8.04, Debian Lenny, now I installed printer on Debian Squeeze (amd64 – kde) successfully.
    However method1 looks very elegant, but didn’t work out for me, although everything looked ok.
    Method2 works fine.
    Thanks a lot, all the best,
    Frank

  • vinodkumar

    iam a using ubuntu 10.10maverick meerkat.I follow you tutorial. 10.10 canon lbp2900.Still nproblem in printing. printer installed .but no print.

  • vinodkumar

    iam a using ubuntu 10.10maverick meerkat.I follow you tutorial. 10.10 canon lbp2900.Still nproblem in printing. printer installed .but no print.

    • vinodkumar

      now my printer is working but it will prints after 5-10 minutes
      pls help me

  • http://enteryoursiteURL... deaid

    Thanks! Script works perfectly!

  • frank

    Dear Zinovsky
    I have bought a new Canon LBP5050n
    I am very new to linux and I am not a computer geek!
    I am using 10.04 Ubuntu
    I have downloaded the drivers from the canon site tried to install but can’t get any thing to operate
    I get a printer symbol in the admin printer section

    I don’t want to go back to Windows but I may have to. HELP PLEASE Try to make it simple HELP HELP

  • arno

    A tip:
    To install from the xx.deb files did give big problems. Never have seen the LBP2900 working.

    After using the xx.rpm files and transfered them to xx.deb files with alien the installation is no problem anymore

  • http://nguyennamhong.fws nguyen nam hong

    How to install Canon LBP 2900 on Scientific Linux 6?

  • Agustin TPM

    I LIKE TO INSTALL CANON LBP CANON ON UBUNTU 11.4, IT’S POSSIBLE

  • nilay

    to M.ZINOUNE (ZINOVSKY)
    Many many thanks, may God bless you my frnd..

  • jonneal

    Thanks for the help Z … the script worked fine for my LBP-1210 on 11.04

  • Mauritius

    I’m so sorry, the package cndrvcups enlisted above is time waste. Doesn’t even get installed, lacks a (deprecated inside narvaal) packg gs-esp etc.

    Instead, [u]this tutorial works fine[/u] for LBP810 !!
    http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/installer_canon_lbp

    It’s in french like me, but english links are given too.

    Enjoy it :)

  • http://enteryoursiteURL... badol

    I need Canon LBP3150 software

  • Ferdaus

    I am having problems installing Canon LBP6000 in Ubuntu 11.04

    Any solution guide will be of great help

  • Tomáš Bernat

    Hello, I am trying first method. I own LBP3010 and Ubuntu 11.10… everythink looks fine, but when I try print something. Ubuntu says "Printer filter is missing". Print is in queue, but "wrong configuration of printer". Does anybody know where would be a problem? Maybe this quide doesnt work with new vs of ubuntu?

    I am sry for my language :)

  • chandrageetha

    Great!!! got my Canon LBP2900 Lasershot
    printing, following these instructions

    Thank You a Lot
    with prayers for you

    chandrageetha

  • Vishnu V

    In Ubuntu 11.10 i tried these steps to install LBP2900
    But at the command
    /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP2900 -m CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E

    i got an error says
    lpadmin: Bad device-uri scheme "ccp".

    Please Help
    Thanks
    Vishnu V

  • surendran

    how to install Printer Canon LBP2900 in ubantu 9.04

  • marker1k

    Thanks, man. I successfully configured LBP5050.

  • mfrerebeau

    enter your message here…[quote=mfrerebeau]Printers reported to work with version 2.0 on Lucid

    LBP1120

    Thanks a lot for tuto !![/quote]
    There was an ubuntu (lucid) update today : My printer LBP-1120 does not work.
    I tried the 1st Method with last drivers but nothing to do…
    The "captstatusui -P LBP-1120" run the window status but don’t write "ready" status or other error : it write nothing !?
    Last week it ran perfectly … :(

  • mfrerebeau

    [quote=mfrerebeau]enter your message here…[quote=mfrerebeau]Printers reported to work with version 2.0 on Lucid

    LBP1120

    Thanks a lot for tuto !![/quote]
    There was an ubuntu (lucid) update today : My printer LBP-1120 does not work.
    I tried the 1st Method with last drivers but nothing to do…
    The "captstatusui -P LBP-1120" run the window status but don’t write "ready" status or other error : it write nothing !?
    Last week it ran perfectly … :([/quote]

    ok, I "resolved" the problem : after restart PC and kill all process ccp and restart demon ccpd, it works !!

    Thank you for keeping this updated driver !

  • Happyhongkong

    Your advice here is really really helpful and solved my problem for years!!!!
    Thank you very very much!!!! I love you so much!!!

  • kokoliko

    Somehow using the script from Method 1 changed the theme of my Ubuntu 10.04. No problem changing it back via System -> Preferences -> Appearance though. Only too bad the printer still doesn’t work. Although this probably has to do with it being installed before the installation with the script mentioned above and suddenly stopped working (also before script installation). I can see the printer as LBP3000 (correct model) in System -> Administration -> Printing, but it just won’t print. It sais “Processing” in “Document Print Status” for a while and then it disappears and nothing happens.

    I’ve tried removing the CUPS-files and reinstalling, but without progress.

    I’d appreciate suggestions on how to solve this problem, or on how to do a proper un/re-installation.

  • David

    Just tried this with an LBP3100 on Linux Mint Lisa (12.0). but not working. I used your script which worked OK. The printer is installed but refuses to print. Any ideas?

  • Cipricus

    It seems that this solution is based on Radu Cotescu’s script – but also that thisscript would not work in Ubuntu 11.10

  • Cipricus
  • Betyarka

     radu script not working Kubuntu 64 bit   .

  • CIPRICUS

    THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE WITH THE SCRIPT FOR ALL 11. 10 AND ABOVE UBUNTU AND RELATED SYSTEMS  : PLEASE SOMEBODY REPORT IF IT EVER WORKED IN SUCH CASES

    • Anonymous

      Hi, i`m working on updating RADU script, i will do my best to make it ready by the weekend.

      • Cipricus

         Really would appreciate it !

         That’s the spirit I was looking for when I passed to Ubuntu not two months ago !!!

        • Anonymous

          I updated the script, please Download the driver from this link, if you have 64bib computer this will not work for you, i m still working on this part. Please report if this worked for you.
          Thanks

          • Ciprian Sandu

             

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            Very sorry to say that it didn’t work for me.
            I will try to provide some information on my case maybe it would prove useful.
            My printer is Canon LBP-1120The result is the same as before the update. As others that commented here, the driver is installed without error message and the printer appears in the list. But it just says idle.
            What should I say? First, in the readme file it is said to enter a command like “sudo ./canonLBP_install.sh LBP5050“. But in fact that gives me an error and I had to replace it with like “sudo ./canonLBP_install.sh LBP-1120“ – I mean I added that line, I don’t know if that means something or not.
            Another thing: in the terminal, after the installation it is said:
            “Go to System – Administration – Printing and do the following:
             1. disable LBP-1120-2 but do not delete it since Ubuntu will recreate it automatically;
             2. set LBP-1120 as your default printer;
             3. reboot your machine and print a test page.”
            No such name (LBP-1120-2) appears in my list that I should disable, just the simple “LBP-1120“
            (That’s what I see: http://www.zimagez.com/full/edebf61ef9c86e41329a618ec91320d43442f16ac110fcf76924c0fb25bf0a9debb939ba49dabcb7bdb8d91c6837536ac09a32c808864395.php)
            In the printer properties appears “Canon LBP1120 CAPT ver.1.5“. If 1.5 stands for the driver that would be odd, as the version of the driver is 2.40-1.

          • cipricus

             Tried it and no luck.

          • flomar

            Hi @zinovsky:disqus, any chance you advanced with the 64-bit problem?

        • Anonymous

          I updated the script, please Download the driver from this link, if you have 64bib computer this will not work for you, i m still working on this part. Please report if this worked for you.
          Thanks

      • Frustrated

        Thank you Zinovsky! Any progress on updating the Radu script for 11.10?

  • cipricus

    Having the same issue and finally got lucky: I hope this helps others (at least as model of obstinacy) : http://askubuntu.com/a/106260/47206

  • cipricus

    The problem here is indeed a bug related to 11.10.
    The bug is discussed here:
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/842823
    Look at my question and the answers here: http://askubuntu.com/q/105891/47206

  • maverick555

    will this work for LBP 2900 B ?

  • Rob Hurle

    Now that Debian has gone over to dependency based boot sequencing, a new header is needed in the ccpd script in /etc/init.d:

     ### BEGIN INIT INFO
    # Provides:          ccpd
    # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $cups
    # Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
    # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
    # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
    # Short-Description: Start ccpd at boot time after CUPS starts
    # Description:       Enable the Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS
    ### END INIT INFO

    This header goes at the top of the ccpd script.  ccpd must start after CUPS starts, hence the $cups reference above.  $cups must be defined in /etc/insserv.conf or as a separate file in /etc/insserv.conf.d.  It is defined as a line like this:

    # Define $cups to be the CUPS daemon  (cupsd)
    # Other printer daemons (at least, the Canon one) must start after CUPS is running.

    $cups              cups

    where “cups” is the name of the script in /etc/init.d that starts cupsd.  Once this is done, run the command:

    insserv ccpd

    You should then see two instances of ccpd when you run the command:

    ps -ef | grep ccpd

  • cipricus

    Still no luck with LBP 112O IN 11.10 ONEIRIC. What’s the situation in 12.04?

  • Frustrated

    No such luck with LBP-1120 in Ubuntu 12.04 guys, just a heads up. Anyone know a solution that works?

    • cipricus

      see links in my recent post

  • cipricus

    I have succeeded in installing the LBP-1120 Canon printer in 12.10 following the Uubuntu documentation for 12.04 (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CanonCaptDrv190#Ubuntu_12.04_Install) and the manual that comes with the 2.4 drivers downloaded at the same address. The steps that I followed are presented on this askubuntu page (http://askubuntu.com/q/105891/47206) and on the blog here (http://cipricuslinux.blogspot.fr/p/printing.html)

  • siri

    thanks it’s working for me in linux mint

    • Guest

      what is?

  • zinovsky

    Apart of downloading,extracting and installing the drivers, the rest of instructions need to be done in a terminal, i tried to use th simplest way so every linux user even a newbie can understand it, and if you read the comments of people of the original tutorial you can understand that most of people they diden`t find any problem using this tutorial.
    for Linuxmint,is based on Ubuntu so i mentioned LinxMint to show to the users of this distribution that this tutorial also is For Mint.
    If you have any idea ,we welcome any suggestions , and also if you see any mistakes on the article even language mistakes please don1t hesitate to give your feed.
    Did the tutorial worked for you ?

  • luluprat

    :oops: i am under mint 7 and i use 1.6 driver

  • zinovsky

    Does the printer is installed without problems ? Try to print test page

  • Paul

    ok, the captcha on that phpBB forum is way to difficult to read – I got locked out :oops:

    my build essential is new:

    [quote]build-essential is already the newest version.[/quote]

    Will try and register again later…

  • Cory
  • Zinovsky

    Hi Radu,
    Thanks for the script, i will try it this evening then i will add a link to your script in this article as a second method.

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