I used Gimp-Print BJC7000, BJC7004 or BJC7100 driver for this printer. Canon Japan have drivers on their website and here:

http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/bj/other.html

but I have been unable to get them to work so far. Non-free alternative may be Turboprint(http://www.turboprint.de), but I haven't tried it.

BJC drivers allow good plain paper printing up to 600dpi (high quality). Using higher settings results in double width output rather than higher resolution.

Front paper cartridge doesn't work, driver overrides to rear sheet feeder if manually selected.

CD Printing doesn't work.

Works pretty good on both sometimes you can use the drivers for pixma ip4000