Printing with Cannon MF4150

[Aviram Jenik]

Eliyahu,

I've had mixed success with this printer; while the drivers do
eventually work, they sometimes require some fiddling. The
instructions unfortunately differ from version to version.

Is your system 32 bit or 64 bit? If 32, try version 230. It has .deb
files and should work out of the box.
If 64, a simple 'alien' does not work. There are dependencies that
need to be installed, and you need to symlink the 64 bit directory -
sorry, I don't have the instructions in front of me and could find it
in a couple of minutes of googling.

Also, reboot between attempts. Yes, that should not matter on decent
package installations, but it does matter here.

- Aviram



On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:39 PM, eliyahu cohen
<eliyahu.cohen1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Apologies if you get this twice, I have a Cannon MF4150 multi-function printer and a Debian Wheezy box I want to connect. I converted the RPM packages provided by Cannon (in the Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V240_uk_EN.tar.gz tarball) to Debian packages. I used system-config-printers to install the printer. The system-config-printers utility identified the printer as MF4100 and claimed to find the correct PPD file as well (I also tried switching the PPD file to the other 4100 series drivers provided in the cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-2.40 package with no luck). The printer is connected via USB. When I setup the printer via the system-config-printers and press print a test page, the printer status (in system-config-printers window) goes from idle to printing to complete, however nothing is actually printed. I tried printing from my browser as well without success. The cups error log returns:
>
> D [18/Apr/2012:12:47:51 +0300] Returning IPP successful-ok for Print-Job (ipp://localhost/printers/Canon-MF4100-Series) from localhost
>
>
> which I believe should mean that the printing was successful, but nothing was printed. Has anyone else succesfully printed using Linux and the Cannon MF4150 printer?
> I pasted the entire debug log for my test printing attempts to http://pastebin.com/h5fwFpb5 in case someone sees something obviously missing there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eli
>
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