driver for Cannon ip2600 Needed

[dick]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Canon provided Driver for Pixma ip2600 in the past now claim that they do not provide same doe's anyone have same unable to use this printer ...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.17+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This is not a bug in Firefox but a request for drivers.

Changed to Ubuntu as project and it needs to be placed in the right project/package

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

The official drivers for this printer are proprietary and closed source,
therefore we cannot/are not allowed to include them into Ubuntu.

Actually your printer manufacturer needs to provide a openprinting distribution independent driver package as described here: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/WritingAndPackagingPrinterDrivers
This would allow automatic download and installation of the manufacturers printer driver by system-config-printer as already implemented by this specification: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/printerdriverautodownload since Ubuntu Intrepid.
As mentioned the system-config-printer part is implemented.
You should ask your manufacturer in this case Canon to provide a distibution independent package that allows their printer driver to be installed automatically on Linux in general (not only Ubuntu).