How to install Canon LBP printers in Ubuntu

sudo ./canonLBP_install.sh PRINTER_MODEL

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  Sean O'Neill March 26th, 2010 at 18:11

  Just used your script – it worked great. Thanks a million – I have pulled my hair out trying to get this working (LBP-1210 on Ubuntu 9.1 32 bit). I am not an ubuntu head.

  Here is one for you, would you now tell me how to get the same printer working as a network printer with Win 7 64bit. Drivers are a real problem with WIN 7 64 bit. Is there anyway that a printer can be setup so that it uses local printers ?

  Thanks again.
  Sean.

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    Radu March 26th, 2010 at 21:39

    Sean, I’m glad everything worked okay. Maybe you can write on Ubuntu’s wiki about this (that your model worked okay with the script and with the drivers). The Windows 7 driver for your printer is located here but I don’t know how well it works. Sharing your printer with Windows is easy. Assuming that I got this right, you want to connect your printer to your Ubuntu machine and access it from Windows. For this you have a great guide on Ubuntu’s wiki. The parts that are of interest for you are this one for the printer server and this one for your Windows client. I have used those guides too for sharing a printer between my computers at home and everything is working dandy .

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  Zhu April 9th, 2010 at 14:12

  Thank you very much Radu. I had tried a lot of ways from Google to make my LBP1120 printing anything. None of them worked for me. But your script is just the miracle. And now my Canon LBP1120 PRINTS on Ubuntu 9.10 amd64!
  Thank you very much!

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  lm April 14th, 2010 at 01:09

  hello
  I’ve executed this script on ubuntu lucid beta2
  the system has displayed lbp3010
  but as I give the order to print nothing happens not

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  Radu April 14th, 2010 at 11:15

  @lm: Have you followed the instructions written by the script in your terminal precisely? Because I did that on Ubuntu Lucid on my laptop and everything worked well. Of course, I own an LBP2900 but the driver supports your printer model as well.

  To check that there isn’t a driver problem open your terminal and follow this:

  radu@data:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd status
  Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS: ccpd: 1335 1184

  If you don’t see two PIDs there’s something wrong. In that case delete your previously installed printer, re-run the script and follow those instructions displayed at the end. Don’t forget to reboot your machine before printing the test page.

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  lm April 14th, 2010 at 20:01

  Hello
  thank you for your reply

  in the terminal I typed: sudo ./canonLBP_install.sh LBP3010

  here is what I see in the terminal

  I find no problem to install my printer on karmic manually because I downloaded the drivers from the official site, but I would like use your script because I love the automatic setup.

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  Radu April 14th, 2010 at 20:42

  Install libstdc++6. You should have no problems afterwards.

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  lm April 14th, 2010 at 21:32

  thank you again
  the problem of dependent package is resolved
  this problem remains:

  sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd status
  Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS: ccpd: 977
  captstatusui -P LBP3010
  [1] 1844
  sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd status
  Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS: ccpd: 977

  after restart the pc my printer works
  and i see

  Canon Printer Daemon for CUPS: ccpd: 1178 972

  Therefore it works but how to do everything by the script without adding manual…

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  Radu April 14th, 2010 at 23:22

  The script does everything. You should just restart your machine after installing your printer and setting it as default. I’ve told you before that I’ve tested the script on my laptop which runs Lucid right after you have posted your first comment.

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  lm April 15th, 2010 at 00:22

  Again thank you
  but before using the script I’ve manually installed libstdc + +6
  I Prefair, do everything by the script
  even for libstdc + +6
  is it possible to integrated libstdc + +6 in the script

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  Radu April 15th, 2010 at 00:32

  I guess I can add that too. But the problem is that on some systems (I think prior to 9.10) that package should be libstdc++5. Maybe I’ll add an if there… I wanted to add an uninstaller too.

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