I'm very new to printing under linux and don't know what to do! Please help! I want to set up my Canon i560 printer (I'm running slackware 9.1). Every job that I try to run gets aborted. If I go to http://localhost:631/printers and tell it to print a test page, it'll say test page sent, but the job is aborted immediately. If I click "restart job", I get "Error:client-error-not-possible". What does that mean? Please can anybody help? Konqueror print://Manager says:

Cheiron
General Properties

Type
Local

State
Idle (accepting jobs)

Location
/dev/usb/lp0


Description

URI
ipp://astra:631/printers/Cheiron

Interface (Backend)
usb://Canon/i560


Driver

Manufacturer
Canon

Model
BJC 7000

Driver Information
CANON BJC 7000 - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7




my /etc/cups/printers.conf file says:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.20
# Written by cupsd on Sat Sep 25 21:20:14 2004
<DefaultPrinter Cheiron>
Info printer1
Location /dev/usb/lp0
DeviceURI usb://Canon/i560
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>


thanks!

There is a Canon driver here. The only problem is that the site's in Japanese, but if you hover over the links, you get the idea. There has been some success in using these drivers, but I believe they are not perfect.

That's why I don't use Canon anymore... very ordinary drivers (especially for higher-end printers). Linux drivers for my HP PSC all-in-one are as good as if not better than the Windows ones.

Baldrick