Printing with Canon Pixma iP1800 on Fedora Core 7

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Fri Jul 18 20:51:48 UTC 2008



Valentina M wrote:
> Hi, I have a printer Canon Pixma iP1800 and I want to print on Linux. 
> I installed the following packages:
> #yum localinstall –nogpgcheck cnijfilter-common-2.70-1.i386.rpm 
> <http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/ip1800_support.aspx>
> # yum localinstall –nogpgcheck cnijfilter-ip1800series-2.70-1.i386.rpm 
> <http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/ip1800_support.aspx>
>
> They worked, the printer seems to be recognized (Im not sure) but it 
> won't print. When I send work to print "Fedora" doesnt report any 
> problem but the printer doesnt make a thing.
>
> Does any1 know how I can fix that? If that is so, plz I would like to 
> get some instructions, since I'm new on Linux.
> Thank u,
> Valentina

What does lpstat -t say?

kevin





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