Friday, September 13, 2013

Installing Cannon lbp 2900b printer on Linux Mint 17.1



1. Power On Printer after login check              
    ls -l /dev/usb/ should return lp0

2. Install packages downloaded from canon site
    cndrvcups-common_2.60-1_amd64.deb
    cndrvcups-capt_2.60-1_amd64

3. Install following
        sudo apt-get install portreserve, gsfonts, gsfonts-other, gsfonts-x11
        sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libpopt0:i386

4. Type on Terminal
        sudo service cups restart
        sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP2900 -m CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp://localhost:59687 -E
        sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o /dev/usb/lp0
        sudo service ccpd restart


5. Ensure that there are two processes by checking
        sudo service ccpd status captstatusui -P LBP2900

6. If you are seeing the message Ready to print, you are done!
    Else you may have to restart the system, and repeat all the steps. 
    Switch off the printer and switch on. Another printer LBP2900-2 may install disable it in printers app.

7. To ensure that printer is available after reboot edit /etc/rc.local and add
    service cups restart service ccpd restart

 

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