Thursday, September 27, 2012

Install Canon LBP 2900 printer on Ubuntu


Step 1:

Go to the following web page and download the Driver.tar.gz:

Step 2:

Extract Driver.tar.gz either by right-clicking on the file and selecting "Extract Here", or in the Terminal in the directory you downloaded it into and entering the following command:


$ tar -xvf Driver.tar.gz







This
 should create a new directory called Driver which contains two files: 
cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.rpm and cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.rpm.







Note
 that the latest version of the drivers contain .deb packages, which you
 can use instead of the above procedure to convert RPMs. These
 rpms need to be converted into debs so that we can install them, and to
 do that we need to install alien. You can do that with Synaptic (System
 > Administration > Synaptic) or in the Terminal:








$ sudo aptitude install alien







Then, you convert the files using alien in the Terminal:








$ sudo alien -c cndrvcups-capt-1.30-1.i386.rpm
$ sudo alien -c cndrvcups-common-1.30-1.i386.rpm







Install the debs you have just created by double clicking on the files or using the Terminal:








$ sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.30-2_i386.deb cndrvcups-capt_1.30-2_i386.deb



Step 3:



In order to load the new drivers we have installed we need to stop and restart CUPS. Firstly we stop CUPS:








$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys stop







Note: if youre using ubuntu 8.10 & dont have this file in this path, just run:




$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop







Check
 that it is stopped. All the times I have done this, CUPS had stopped 
first time but apparently this may not always be the case due to the 
installation of ccp:








$ sudo ps ax | grep cupsd







Which will give you something like this:








cupsys   24897  0.0  0.1   4336  1976 ?        SNs  07:35   0:04 /usr/sbin/cupsd
username 24738  0.0  0.0   2896   836 pts/0    S+   21:21   0:00 grep cupsd







If
 you only get a line that ends with "grep cupsd" CUPS has stopped and 
you can carry on. If you also get a line that ends with 
"/usr/sbin/cupsd", as shown above, CUPS has not stopped and you will 
have to try the following method to stop it:








$ sudo killall -9 cupsd







The aliened debs are not perfect so we have to do some of their the work for them. Create two directories:








$ sudo mkdir /var/ccpd
$ sudo mkdir /var/captmon







And a fifo:








$ sudo mkfifo /var/ccpd/fifo0







Make fifo0 accessable to everyone:








$ sudo chmod 777 /var/ccpd/fifo0







In
 Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty, change the owner of fifo0 into root (failing to
 do so gives you an error: Unable to copy PPD file in step 4):








$ sudo chown root /var/ccpd/fifo0







You may need to make the permissions of the /usr/share/cups/model directory more permissive.




$ sudo chmod -R a+rX /usr/share/cups/model







Once you have done this, start CUPS again:








$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start



Step 4:



Register
 the printer driver with the print spooler with the following command, 
replacing [printer model] with your printer model and [printer driver 
file] with your driver file:








$ sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p [printer model] -m [printer driver file] -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E







For example, the command for the Canon LBP 2900 would be:








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







Note: If you get the error lpadmin: Unable to copy PPD file!, try substituting -P for -m above.



If you are unsure of what your driver file is called you can get a list of the available drivers:








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







Look
 for the one that matches your model number. Some of them end with 
"K.ppd" and some end with "J.ppd". I have no idea what difference is, 
the K ones have worked fine for me so far.







Added
 2007-12-09: under Ubuntu 7.10, the K ones constantly use about 75% CPU,
 while the J ones don't. I did not find any problems with the J file so 
far.







Ubuntu Edgy and Feisty are searching the driver in /usr/share/ppd/ so I created a link:




$ cd /usr/share/ppd/
$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd







Once
 registered your printer should appear in the System > Administration
 > Printing dialog. For 8.10 users: first be sure to delete old 
printer which was "installed" before the driver installation.







Register the printer with ccpd daemon, once again replace [printer model] with your printer model:








$ sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p [printer model] -o /dev/usb/lp0







For example, the command for the Canon LBP 2900 would be:








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



Step 5:



Replace /etc/init.d/ccpd with the script below (originally taken from http://rdoursenaud.free.fr/debian/capt.html):








#
# ccpd          startup script for Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS
#
#               Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
#               by Raphael Doursenaud <rdoursenaud@free.fr>
#               and Markovtsev Vadim  <markhor@mail.ru>

DAEMON=/usr/sbin/ccpd
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/ccpd
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=ccpd
DESC="Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case $1 in
  start)
        log_begin_msg "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
  stop)
        log_begin_msg "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
  status)
        echo "$DESC: $NAME:" `pidof $NAME`
        ;;
  restart)
        log_begin_msg "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
        sleep 1
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
        log_end_msg $?
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: ccpd {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0





Copy and paste the above script into a new text file, then backup and replace the old version:








$ sudo mv /etc/init.d/ccpd ccpdold
$ sudo cp [text file you created] /etc/init.d/ccpd







Give everyone execution rights to the new file:








$ sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/ccpd



Step 6:



Start the ccpd daemon:








$ sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd start



Step 7:



Set ccpd to start when you startup your computer (must be greater than CUPS runlevel):








$ sudo update-rc.d ccpd defaults 60



Step 8:



Switch off the printer and reboot your computer. Once you have logged in, switch on the printer again.



Step 9:



Test your installation.







First test:








$ sudo ccpdadmin







Which should output this:






Usage:
  ccpdadmin [-p Printer-name -o Printer-dev-path]
  ccpdadmin [-x Remove-Printer-name]


 CUPS_ConfigPath = /etc/cups/
 LOG Path        = None
 UI Port         = 39787

 Entry Num  : Spooler   : Backend       : FIFO path             : Device Path  : Status
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
     [0]    : LBP2900   : ccp           : /var/ccpd/fifo0       : /dev/usblp0  :







Second test, replace [printer model] with your printer model








$ captstatusui -P [printer model]







For example, the command for the Canon LBP 2900 would be:








$ captstatusui -P LBP2900







This will launch a window that after a bit should say "ready to print".



Finally open a file and try to print it.












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  1. VSeptember 15, 2016 at 3:14 PM
    Thanks in advance for the detailed guide!

    Will test on my machine!
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