HowTo setup Canon iRC 2880i printer in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

If you want to setup Canon iRC 2880i printer in Hardy follow this procedure

1. Goto System->Administration->Printing

2. Create a new printer queue


3. Select the type of connection to the printer (mine is Windows Printer via SAMBA)

4. Input the printer settings eg: 10.0.0.1/NameOfPrinter and authentication if needed

5. For drivers use Generic->PCL 5c->Generic PCL 5c Printer Foomatic/hpijs

6. Give it a name and you're set to go

If you would also like to print in colour then this is where the fun begins.

You will need the UFR Printer Drivers from Canon .

If you're using the iRC 2880 then you can go straight here

Once you have the drivers and have extracted them then follow these steps.

Note: If you are using a version of Ubuntu that is older than Hardy you should just be able to run the deb file in the Debian folder and then you can skip to step 6

1. If you try and run the deb file in the Debian folder in Hardy it will give a dependency error regarding libcupsys2-gnutls10. So...

2. Run sudo apt-get install alien

3. Go to the extracted drivers RPM directory in a Terminal

4. Run sudo alien -c *.rpm (The -c will include any scripts in the package)

5. Run your newly created deb packages. First the cups common one then the driver one.

6. Follow the intructions above for the setting up of only black & white printing up to and including step 4

7. For drivers use Canon->iR C2880/C3380 UFR II->iR C2880/C3380 UFR II (or whatever model you are using)

8. Give it a name and you should now be printing in colour

In case you were wondering why you get the dependency error in step 1, the reason is that the Debian package was converted from a RPM one, using alien. Alien picked up the dependencies that where present on the system that the package was initially created.

Source from here