No driver for Canon i250 printer

[sam tygier]

Binary package hint: cups

The printer is detected when plugged in, but the "Generic text-only printer" driver is selected. This does not print anything, even a plain text document in gedit.

I tried manually choosing the printer in the system->admin->printing but i250 is not in the list of canons.

there are instructions of the web about getting
http://download.canon.com.au/bj/i250linux/bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm
http://download.canon.com.au/bj/i250linux/bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm
and using alien.

these drivers ought to be included in the repos (or partnet repo).

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

There is a workaround that is posted on the web. The following commands are for Intrepid 8.10
[code]gksudo "aptitude -y install libpng3 libtiff4 cupsys alien"
cd /tmp
wget http://download.canon.com.au/bj/i250linux/bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm
wget http://download.canon.com.au/bj/i250linux/bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm
gksudo "alien --scripts bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm"
gksudo "alien --scripts bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm"
gksudo "dpkg -i bjfiltercups_2.3-1_i386.deb bjfilteri250_2.3-1_i386.deb"
gksudo "ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3"
gksudo "ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2"
gksudo "/etc/init.d/cups restart"
[/code]
The code don't actually set the printer up. You will still have to do that in the normal way through System → Administration → Printing. When offered the option, tell the computer to use the PPD file at /usr/share/cups/model/canoni250.ppd.

New > Confirmed

[Grey Nicholson (greytheearthling)]

I should point out that this script doesn't actually work reliably—I published it when it worked for me first time, but the printer's since stopped working again.

[bigal50 (bigal50)]

This could be a work around until it shows up in Foomatic

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-i250

[Dante Díaz (dante)]

Yes, i still have this model of Canon printer and can't make works with Ubuntu :(

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Note that we cannot include the proprietary drivers mentioned here and also on the OpenPrinting web site in the Ubuntu distribution. It is in the hands of Canon to provide drivers which work flawlessly with the current Linux distributions and also make them auto-downloadable via OpenPrinting. This is not a bug of the Ubuntu distribution.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

There are 2 ways that this could be fixed in ubuntu.
1) Jocky could install the proprietary driver (as done with various wireless and graphics card)
2) An opensource driver could be written.
There for it makes little sense to mark this as invalid

[Pad (apourir)]

This might be an old bug report but I'm still using this old Canon i250 and, since I updated my Hardy Heron to Lucid Lynx I don't manage to make it working.
I have an "unknown tag" error message when converting .rpm to .deb... Then when I run an impression the impression manager tell me that the job is done... but nothing started

P.S. Excuse me if this isn't proper English but I have a very big handicap for speaking foreign languages: I'm French :p

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Jockey has been superseded by software-properties, which now handles
third-party driver configuration.

[dino99 (9d9)]

cups works with the i250: http://david.dw-perspective.org.uk/Canon-i250-On-Linux.html