Hi all,
havig struggled for nearly a week to get my Canon Pixma ip1900 to work on Ubuntu, I finally did, thanks to a lot of googling and forum browsing. Extracted drivers, changed references to libcupsys2, changed filter permissions, dpkg -i --force-architecture (I'm on 64 bit), etc. And it worked wonderfully. Until last week.

Now, when I try and print, I get nothing. Zip. Just a message in Printing:

/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij failed

pstocanonij is present in the directory. I haven't, to my knowledge changed anything. I have reinstalled the drivers, restarted cups, but to no avail.

Anybody have any ideas?? I really need to get this going. I would get a more linux friendly printer, but I am on a tight budget for the time-being.

Would be most grateful for assistance!

Update:

Tried adding the printer via the Cups server (localhost:631).

Problem persists, but this time I checked the error log, and found these messages:

/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij: No such file or directory
(/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij) stopped with status 22!

I have checked, the file is definitely present where it should be, and also appears in /lib64. Permissions are set correctly.

I am at my wits end. Incidentally, I tried the printer on my desktop (running 10.04 i386), and it works fine, so this seems to be an amd64 issue.

Any ideas??

hi, just to let you know i'm in the same boat

i got my canon mp620 working in slackware 32 13.1 hcl post here following same procedures i could not get it to work with slackware 64 13.1

gave up because i have work arounds