Explore Your World: Install Driver Canon iP1300 in Ubuntu Manually

In general, the existing printer driver on ubuntu, and we can immediately install the System administration. but many features the printer does not work properly, and it causes our printer does not work properly.Here there is another way to install the printer driver manually.

to install it we follow these steps, login as root by type :

$ sudo su

$ apt-get install alien

Download driver canon ip1300 here. then extract file .tar.gz have you downloaded by type :

$ tar -xf iP2200_Linux_260.tar.gz

Delete the file. rpm which we do not need, search for files cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm by type

$ rm -r cnijfilter-common-2.60-1.src.rpm

Go to active directory to convert file .rpm to .deb by using alien application by type :

$ alien -d -c *.rpm

then intall file .deb that converted by type :

$ dpkg -i *.deb

To install this driver we need additional packages from the repository libgtk1.2, by type :

$ apt-get install libgtk1.2

Create links between files to be more information type : "$ man ln'"

$ ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 /usr/lib/libxml.so.1
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

default configuration ip2200.ppd still able to work, following only improve the results of your printer, Make your choice as the level of detail you need by type :

$ gedit /usr/share/cups/model/canonip2200.ppd

*OpenUI

*CNQuality/Quality: PickOne

*DefaultCNQuality: 3

*CNQuality 2/High: "2"

*CNQuality 3/Normal: "3"

*CNQuality 4/Standard: "4"

*CNQuality 5/Economy: "5"

*CloseUI:

*CNQuality

*OpenUI

*Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne

*DefaultResolution: 600

*Resolution 600/600 dpi: "<>setpagedevice"

*Resolution 1200/1200 dpi: "<>setpagedevice"

*Resolution 2400/2400 dpi: "<>setpagedevice"

*CloseUI:

*Resolution

Restart cups by type :

$ killall cupsd

$ cupsd

Add your new printer

Open printing dialog in system settings
Add new printer
Choose Canon IP1300 USB # entry
When asked choose to manually choosea PPD file
browse to /usr/share/cups/model/canonip2200.ppd
Apply all settings and close wizard.

At this step, your printer is ready to work, but can’t print black colour except you add black cartridge. The next steps is the steps to make printer simulated the black colour from colour cartridge that was installed.

Go to terminal and edit file canonip2200.ppd by type :

$ gedit /usr/share/cups/model/canonip2200.ppd

and add this line

*OpenUI *CNInkCartridgeSettings/Ink Cartridge Settings: PickOne
*DefaultCNInkCartridgeSettings: color
*CNInkCartridgeSettings color: “Color Only”
*CNInkCartridgeSettings bk: “Black Only”
*CNInkCartridgeSettings bkcolor: “Both Black and Color”
*CloseUI: *CNInkCartridgeSettings

Save and exit text editor, and restart your machine by type :