Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 832092
Running cnijnet should provide URI of Canon network printer after installing the official Canon drivers
Last modified: 2012-06-14 10:02:32 EDT
Description of problem: Running the command /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijnet should give the URI of a Canon network printer after installing the offical Canon drivers. This works in Mageia 2 with the same version of CUPS as F17 (1.5.2). The URI I discovered in Mageia 2 works in Fedora cnijnet:/00-1E-8F-A6-5A-72 But if I did not have Mageia 2 to fall back on, I could not discover the URI. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Cups 1.5.2 How reproducible: Install the official Canon drivers, restart CUPS, then run the command: # /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijnet After churning a few seconds, I am returned to the prompt without any output. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install official Canon drivers 2. Restart CUPS 3. Run: # /usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijnet Actual results: No output. No errors displayed. Expected results: cnijnet:/00-1E-8F-A6-5A-72 Additional info: My Canon Network Printer model is PIXMA MG8120 How I installed the official Canon drivers is described in detail in the following forum thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1584980#post1584980
I'm afraid we can't help you with this 3rd party driver. However gutenprint has had a driver for Canon PIXMA MG8100 since version 5.2.7. Install it with 'yum install gutenprint-cups' and configure the printer queue for example with system-config-printer. You can even try the gutenprint-5.2.8 from updates-testing repository (it's still not there but should be in any moment) where the Canon driver had been significantly overhauled. Once the 5.2.8 is in updates-testing you can update from 5.2.7 with: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update 'gutenprint*'