Durante mi estancia en inglaterra compré una impresora Canon PIXMA iP2600. Salía bien de precio y los cartuchos de tinta, aunque caros, eran los más baratos de todos los que estube mirando.
El caso es que ¡oh sorpresa! resulta que la impresora no funcionaba en Ubuntu 64-bits, y tras leer mucho y probar varias cosas, no habia manera.
Resulta que ayer actualicé ubuntu, y se actualizaron algunas cosas relacionadas con la impresora, así que me dije, volvamos a intentarlo, y hoy ha funcionado ya esta impresora a la primera.
El tema, es que los drivers de Canon para la PIXMA iP2600 sólo estan en 32-bits, y mi ordenador es 64-bits, así que hay que hacer un truco manso (truco que no funcionó hace 2 o 3 meses cuando intenté instalarla).
Así que, para el que le pueda interesar, los pasos que he seguido para instalar esta impres han sido:
- Ir a la página de Linux Printing y buscar mi impresora
- He encontrado esta página con los drivers de la canon PIXMA iP2600
- He descargado los drivers para 32-bits (no existen los de 64-bits):
- cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb de http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100118902.html
- cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb de http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100119102.html
- He forzado la instalación de ambos paquetes con dpkg:
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sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
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sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb
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- Y finalmente he conectado el USB, he abierto el Printer Manager (System -> Administration -> Printing), y le he dado a nueva impresora, después he pulsado siguiente siguiente dos veces, le he dado a finalizar, me ha preguntado si imprimía una página de prueba y…
- ¡voila! la página se ha imprimido con éxito!
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20/06/2009 at 6:07 am Permalink
I have a canon pixma ip2600 printer which i am trying to get working on ubuntu 9.04 and tried to add the driver files from this site, but being a greenhorn and computer illerate i can’t seem to get my printer working. Can anyone help (step by step instructions)?????? Steve headmower@gmail.com
24/07/2009 at 11:27 am Permalink
thanks! With this note, I was able to install your canon iP2600 printer in my ubuntu linux )))
04/08/2009 at 3:25 pm Permalink
In the terminal, I get error ______dpkg: error processing –force-architecture (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
–force-architecture
cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb
I run 9.04 64bit…
any help is really appreciated!
25/08/2009 at 8:33 pm Permalink
When i tried, i got the following error:
“dpkg: error processing –force-architecture (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb (–install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
–force-architecture
cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
guser@guser-desktop:~/downloads$ sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
sudo: unable to resolve host guser-desktop
dpkg: error processing –force-architecture (–install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb (–install):
package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
Errors were encountered while processing:
–force-architecture
cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb”
25/08/2009 at 9:32 pm Permalink
i found a modified form of that command and it installed correctly:
sudo aptitude install -f [package name]
Do it first for the common file and then for the ip2600series file.
Now the problem i am trying to solve is why when i send a print job, it is accepted and shows job complete but the printing never happens.
29/08/2009 at 7:39 pm Permalink
Hi Ronald,
maybe you should try to find a forum or something about printers to ask specific questions.
I am not an experd in this. I just found a way of making the printer to work for me. If you have installed the driver, but now you have more problems… I don’t know what could be happening
I’m sorry I don’t have any answers for you.
16/10/2009 at 6:07 pm Permalink
Thanks! Printer got autodiscovered by installing the drivers and unplugging and plugging in the printer
16/10/2009 at 8:54 pm Permalink
You are welcome
24/10/2009 at 7:09 am Permalink
Just wanted to say that it worked a treat! Fantastic effort! Thanks! x