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CUPS printing blank pages...

i wish to install Canon PIXMA iP1300 printer in fedora 15 gnome3 !
My printer drivers are not available in CUPS database.So i found this.As it can be seen that the method told there is for ubuntu and i nearly survived it but then i'm getting blank pages only.
So, Can someone please translate those steps for me to install my printer in fedora ?
I think i missed something and that is why i'm not able to print anything !

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4436678)

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

this is not working...when i follow those steps even the printer doesn't take the paper in earlier i was atleast receiving blank pages ejected out !
i've posted my issue on that website..

Have you added yourself to printer group?

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4437032)

Have you added yourself to printer group?

how do i do that ?
i've not shared my printer !

Either in Users & Groups
or /etc/group

Users & Groups under Advanced Tab
in /etc/group I believe you would add you name to 'lp'

I tried to install a cannon printer in cups some years back and got disastrous results only. I came to a forum, listened to everybody, did everything, and failed totally to get anything but ascii after setting up as their binary language. It would spit pages with a small number of ascii hieroglyphics on them.I tried everything that anyone could think of.

So I circumnavigated cups. Run gs-h and look for anything like a driver for your printer. Cups is a scheduler, ghostscript is actually the print engine. I wrote a hint for the LFS lot, to which someone contributed a script, and he maintains it now. Configuration information is there.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint.../files/pfs.txt

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4437296)

Either in Users & Groups
or /etc/group

Users & Groups under Advanced Tab
in /etc/group I believe you would add you name to 'lp'

/etc/group contains :

Code:

root:x:0:root

bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon

daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon

sys:x:3:root,bin,adm

adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon

tty:x:5:

disk:x:6:root

lp:x:7:daemon,lp

mem:x:8:

kmem:x:9:

wheel:x:10:root

mail:x:12:mail

uucp:x:14:uucp

man:x:15:

games:x:20:

gopher:x:30:

video:x:39:

dip:x:40:

ftp:x:50:

lock:x:54:

audio:x:63:

nobody:x:99:

users:x:100:

utmp:x:22:

utempter:x:35:

usbmuxd:x:113:

dbus:x:81:

ctapiusers:x:499:

oprofile:x:16:

rpc:x:32:

named:x:25:

avahi-autoipd:x:170:

wireshark:x:498:

rtkit:x:172:

abrt:x:173:

rpcuser:x:29:

nfsnobody:x:65534:

jackuser:x:497:

mock:x:496:

cdrom:x:11:

tape:x:33:

dialout:x:18:

floppy:x:19:

apache:x:48:

pulse:x:495:

pulse-access:x:494:

saslauth:x:493:

avahi:x:70:

cgred:x:492:

haldaemon:x:68:

hsqldb:x:96:

smolt:x:491:

mailnull:x:47:

smmsp:x:51:

stapdev:x:490:

stapusr:x:489:

stap-server:x:155:

vcsa:x:69:

openvpn:x:488:

kvm:x:36:qemu

qemu:x:107:

mysql:x:27:

ntp:x:38:

jetty:x:487:

gdm:x:42:

torrent:x:486:

nm-openconnect:x:485:

postgres:x:26:

webalizer:x:67:

backuppc:x:484:apache

sshd:x:74:

squid:x:23:

wbpriv:x:88:squid

distcache:x:94:

dovecot:x:97:

dovenull:x:483:

news:x:13:

tcpdump:x:72:

screen:x:84:

ccache:x:482:

slocate:x:21:

neuron:x:501:

gnokii:x:481:

radvd:x:75:

/etc/group- contains :

Code:

root:x:0:root

bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon

daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon

sys:x:3:root,bin,adm

adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon

tty:x:5:

disk:x:6:root

lp:x:7:daemon,lp

mem:x:8:

kmem:x:9:

wheel:x:10:root

mail:x:12:mail

uucp:x:14:uucp

man:x:15:

games:x:20:

gopher:x:30:

video:x:39:

dip:x:40:

ftp:x:50:

lock:x:54:

audio:x:63:

nobody:x:99:

users:x:100:

utmp:x:22:

utempter:x:35:

usbmuxd:x:113:

dbus:x:81:

ctapiusers:x:499:

oprofile:x:16:

rpc:x:32:

named:x:25:

avahi-autoipd:x:170:

wireshark:x:498:

rtkit:x:172:

abrt:x:173:

rpcuser:x:29:

nfsnobody:x:65534:

jackuser:x:497:

mock:x:496:

cdrom:x:11:

tape:x:33:

dialout:x:18:

floppy:x:19:

apache:x:48:

pulse:x:495:

pulse-access:x:494:

saslauth:x:493:

avahi:x:70:

cgred:x:492:

haldaemon:x:68:

hsqldb:x:96:

smolt:x:491:

mailnull:x:47:

smmsp:x:51:

stapdev:x:490:

stapusr:x:489:

stap-server:x:155:

vcsa:x:69:

openvpn:x:488:

kvm:x:36:qemu

qemu:x:107:

mysql:x:27:

ntp:x:38:

jetty:x:487:

gdm:x:42:

torrent:x:486:

nm-openconnect:x:485:

postgres:x:26:

webalizer:x:67:

backuppc:x:484:apache

sshd:x:74:

squid:x:23:

wbpriv:x:88:squid

distcache:x:94:

dovecot:x:97:

dovenull:x:483:

news:x:13:

tcpdump:x:72:

screen:x:84:

ccache:x:482:

slocate:x:21:

neuron:x:501:

gnokii:x:481:

please guide me which one to modify !

You may have to redo it, did you try uninstalling then reinstalling?

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1 (Post 4437943)

You may have to redo it, did you try uninstalling then reinstalling?

http://shaunak.ws/journal/setting-ca...e-fedora-linux

i uninstalled all "cnijfilter" packages (using yum extender) before following steps given on the link provided by you !