Installing Canon LBP2900 printer on Lenny
I have Canon i-SENSYS LBP2900 laser printer. It works good under WinXP SP2.
Today I decided to configure it under Debian Lenny. On Canon's website I
have found necessary drivers:
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0028622.asp?model=
From there you can download CAPTDRV160.tar.gz archive which has readme,
manual and driver itself in .rpm & .deb formats.
There are packages for Debian:
cndrvcups-common_1.60-1_i386.deb, cndrvcups-capt_1.60-1_i386.deb
I was following the detailed installation instructions (from Canon),
which is in "doc/guide-capt-1.6xe.tar.gz" file of total archive.
First of all I installed "cups" package (with dependencies),
"ghostscript" package had been already installed. Then I installed two
afore-mentioned .deb-packages from Canon. Next I restarted CUPS using "#
/etc/init.d/cups restart" command. Then I registered printer as
"canon2900" using "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p canon2900 -m
CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp:/var/ccpd/fifo0 -E" command (as I
understood it simply copies .ppd-file for concrete printer model from
/usr/share/cups/model/ to /etc/cups/ppd/). Next I registered my printer
in ccpd-daemon's config file using "/usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p canon2900 -o
/dev/usb/lp0" command (as I understood printer's driver must connect to
concrete usb-interface there). Then I started ccpd-daemon using "#
/etc/init.d/ccpd start" command and hoped that printer will become to work.
Canon gives "cngplp" utility to configure printer and to print from
file. "$ cngplp -p temp/1.ps" command produced (in KDE) window for page
range indication, paper settings etc (similarly as under MS Windows) and
after I pressed "Print" button in this window it was ought to print but
I got the following error:
cngplp: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
:0.0.
During all these procedures printer itself has given no visible signal!
Then I tried to use printer installation instruction from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardwareSupportComponentsPrinters/CanonPrinters/Canon_LBP_2900.
Many things from it has already become unnecessary because Canon gives
.deb-packages now.
In particular, I have replaced "/etc/init.d/ccpd" script to one given on
this website (in Step 5). I have also used "update-rc.d ccpd
defaults 20" command for automatically start of ccpd-daemon while system
booting.
After OS rebooting nothing changed. But I tried "$ captstatusui -P
canon2900 &". It opened a window (print monitor) and select
"Options/Cleaning" menu item. Then printer responded! (for the first
time). It began to slowly press in lines (without toner) on the paper.
But "$ cngplp -p temp/1.ps" command produces such error as before.
My hardware:
mb: 8RDA3I rev 3.3
northbridge: nForce 2 Ultra
southbridge: MCP
cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7)
printer: Canon i-SENSYS LBP2900 (interface: usb)
My software:
Debian Lenny
kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686
x11: xserver-xorg 1:7.3+14
kde 3.5: kde-core 5:48
cups 1.3.7-9
canon drivers: 1.60-1
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