TikiRobot! » printer drivers http://www.tikirobot.net/wp Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy! Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:14:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Printing with the Canon PIXMA iP6700D, CUPS, and Fedora http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/10/28/printing-with-the-canon-pixma-ip6700d-cups-and-fedora/ http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/10/28/printing-with-the-canon-pixma-ip6700d-cups-and-fedora/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:35:32 +0000 shag http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/10/28/printing-with-the-canon-pixma-ip6700d-cups-and-fedora/ This might save someone some time and hassle. Recently, I needed to print on a friend’s Canon PIXMA iP6700D printer from my Fedora 7 laptop. Turns out that the default drivers used in this setup print blank sheets and useless micro images rather than anything useful.

Looking around for help resulted in some pointers to this Canon FTP site, but it never responded. Digging a little further turned up this useful page, mostly in Japanese, but if (like me) you don’t read Japanese, you can find the files you need by searching the page for the file sizes. The two files that you need for the iP6700D are:

cnijfilter-common-2.60-3.i386.rpm

which you can find by searching the page for “24,410 byte”, and

cnijfilter-ip6600d-2.60-4.i386.rpm

which you can find by searching the page for “2,054,347 byte“.

Download these two files, install them as root with ‘rpm -ivh cnijfilter-common-2.60-3.i386.rpm cnijfilter-ip6600d-2.60-4.i386.rpm’, and you should be able to find the new driver in the GUI printer config tool, system-config-printer.

Incidentally, it looks like the source RPMs are there too. Pretty cool!

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