acal3000
07-08-2007, 08:22 AM
After long time with thsi problem with some page i visited I finally go working this damned printer on on Linux
There was a solution before some comercial program called Turbo Print but I didn't like it Also has a freeware version but has a limitation but quality printing was bad and prints a damned d turbo print logo on certain part the impression and ruining the whole work . To remove that logo you have to get the paid version
The Gimpprint drivers (formely knows as Guntent print drivesr or something like that)) didn't support my model or at least I tried them
Canon Asia had some rpm in their page to this printer but this useless driver doesn't work
They put and updated driver in march 2007 (recently) but this ones also didn't work or at least not for me . I tried visting again vising their page to see if was a more updated version and they have only the bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm but removed the two 3 rpms from the linux drivers I dowloaded from them like a month ago ( I really don't know why of this ) but anyway the drivers were crap again
So here is how is goes
Download this rpms
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-2.50-2.i386.rpm
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm
The process to install is nothing so complicated I suggest do it in terminal and not directly click on the rpms (like you do windows executables coz in linux sometimes installing programs works better in terminal than graphical mode
Remeber has root priviliges in terminal first before installing installing anything on linux )
On Mandriva install I just went to directory I had the files
Type dir
To get the the directory structure
ON mandriva I just used urpmi ( this is different on every distro) for example
urpmi bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
the wait until installed
and then repeat the same process with other two files
The rpm file name don't have case typing (just copy/paste= the name from the dir structure (that why i said you write dir first to see files in the directory (too sad that couldn't be done in the DOS days when all was commandline)
The page where I found this files said that are supposed with other distros too
Ones was Fedora Core and Ubuntu
The thing with Ubuntu is that the distro is based in Debian so need *.deb packages to install
So first you need to download a utilty from the repos called Alien to convert to rpms to deb packages and get the drivers compatible with Ubuntu I can't rememebr the exact commands coz I deleted kubuntu some months ago and went with mandriva so so the Ubuntu documentacion,wiki or the forum can help with that
Allso the way to install deb packages in Ubuntu in terminal is dpckg -i or something like ( can't remeber the rest of the parameters)
On Fedora I think the command to install is yum ( don't cuote me coz im not sure I was still too noob when I was on fedora) and I still learning) maybe it's another the command I don't know maybe JN4 or the fedora forum can help with that one too)
There was a solution before some comercial program called Turbo Print but I didn't like it Also has a freeware version but has a limitation but quality printing was bad and prints a damned d turbo print logo on certain part the impression and ruining the whole work . To remove that logo you have to get the paid version
The Gimpprint drivers (formely knows as Guntent print drivesr or something like that)) didn't support my model or at least I tried them
Canon Asia had some rpm in their page to this printer but this useless driver doesn't work
They put and updated driver in march 2007 (recently) but this ones also didn't work or at least not for me . I tried visting again vising their page to see if was a more updated version and they have only the bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm but removed the two 3 rpms from the linux drivers I dowloaded from them like a month ago ( I really don't know why of this ) but anyway the drivers were crap again
So here is how is goes
Download this rpms
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-2.50-2.i386.rpm
http://files.alfansa.org/bjfilter-pixmaip1000-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm
The process to install is nothing so complicated I suggest do it in terminal and not directly click on the rpms (like you do windows executables coz in linux sometimes installing programs works better in terminal than graphical mode
Remeber has root priviliges in terminal first before installing installing anything on linux )
On Mandriva install I just went to directory I had the files
Type dir
To get the the directory structure
ON mandriva I just used urpmi ( this is different on every distro) for example
urpmi bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm
the wait until installed
and then repeat the same process with other two files
The rpm file name don't have case typing (just copy/paste= the name from the dir structure (that why i said you write dir first to see files in the directory (too sad that couldn't be done in the DOS days when all was commandline)
The page where I found this files said that are supposed with other distros too
Ones was Fedora Core and Ubuntu
The thing with Ubuntu is that the distro is based in Debian so need *.deb packages to install
So first you need to download a utilty from the repos called Alien to convert to rpms to deb packages and get the drivers compatible with Ubuntu I can't rememebr the exact commands coz I deleted kubuntu some months ago and went with mandriva so so the Ubuntu documentacion,wiki or the forum can help with that
Allso the way to install deb packages in Ubuntu in terminal is dpckg -i or something like ( can't remeber the rest of the parameters)
On Fedora I think the command to install is yum ( don't cuote me coz im not sure I was still too noob when I was on fedora) and I still learning) maybe it's another the command I don't know maybe JN4 or the fedora forum can help with that one too)