January 9, 2008

Borderless printing on Pixma ... now painless ?

So you got this nice Pixma printer that is claimed to do "borderless" printing …

You installed the latest Canon Linux drivers for your MP600/610, run fine ...

And now, you try to print borderless photos from your favorite Desktop application … and you learn in Canon's documentation that borderless printing:
  • Requires a dedicated Canon utility (cifmp600 / cifmp610)
  • run from the command line,
  • with limited image type support (no jpeg!!!)
  • no network gui, just localhost
  • and … only available to the root user!!!
Hey, Whatzat ??

IMHO, a good reason for … reworking a little bit original ppd files, and… turnaround some buggy code.

In fact, Canon’s software already includes borderless printing with cups/ppd files, if the papersize name (in the printer ppd file) ends with “.bl”
Simply create such lines in the ppd file, and you add borderless paper types …

So simple?

Well, add also some driver bug for paper sizes with an X: 4X6, 5X7, … To avoid modifying/recompile any source code, add a small modification to Canon’s driver config file, namely:
/usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp610.conf (or /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp600.conf for MP600), to add lines with a small x like 4x6, 5x7 in the [papersize] section.

The new packages files to download include those new ppds, along with the modified cifmp610.conf / cifmp600.conf files.

Installation

Download here the latest package for the printer and language (English or French) you want.
The package contains:
  • a new ppd file to install as explained in this previous post
  • a cifmp6x0.conf file to replace Canon’s existing one (keep a backup of Canon’s original just in case):
    • MP610 : copy over /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp610.conf
    • MP600 : copy over /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp600.conf
Then, you can start printing borderless images, simply by selecting the new “borderless” paper formats that appear in the paper sizes list, in your application printing dialog.

A simple live test under Gnome’s EOG and Ubuntu Gutsy

Under Gnome, simply double click an image, this trigs “Eye Of Gnome”, Gnome’s standard picture viewer. Note that many other picture viewers (KDE’s, Gnome’s …) will have the same ability, EOG is used here as sample.

EOG supports now Gnome’s standard printing dialog.

Select first the menu "File/Page setup":

Choose in the printers list, the MP610 or MP600, and in the papers list, the new borderless format you want. Choose also the image orientation.

Click apply

Now, in the printing dialog "File/print", look at the “image parameters” tab. In the preview pane, EOG will show your photo as printed on paper, the borders will be 0 if image matches paper format.

Important: choose a combination of paper type and print quality that match. Check Canon's driver user manual (see cifmp610 or cifmp600 "Print Option Combinations" section) for compatible combinations.
If you select an incompatible combination, nothing will be printed, and you won't get any error message ...

Choose also options in the "advanced" tab, and check the quality, halftoning options to match for the paper type selected.

Click print

Et voila!
Your image is printing on paper without borders ;-)

Tips:
  • PPD files have been updated for borderless A4, 4"x6", 5"x7", 4"x8", 8"x10" formats.
    If you need to add other paper formats, simply create new .bl papersizes in the ppd file.
  • Files proposed here are for MP600/MP610 printers, but the same method can be used for many other Canon printers that use the same drivers. Again, modify the same way the ppd and .conf files.
Notes:

  • You might notice that the printed image extends a little bit outside the paper. This is due to the cifmp6x0 utility, that uses a --extend parameter, which defaults to 2. This makes image extend a little bit outside the paper. See Canon’s driver cifmp6x0 documentation (borderless and extend options) for more information.
  • Borderless printing on A4 is not very accurate, as stated in Canon's documentation (the 'Doze documentation). Please take a look at this Canon documentation to get info on borderless printing.

58 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, its me again ;-)

thx for your hints, but it seems i must spend more time for compiling on 64bit :-(

It seems that the libs only compatible for 32bit as the cnijfilter shows the following:

[root@localhost cnijfilter]: make
...skip...

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible ../../327/libs_bin/libcnbpcmcm327.so when searching for -lcnbpcmcm327
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.2.2/../../../libcnbpcmcm327.so when searching for -lcnbpcmcm327
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcnbpcmcm327.so when searching for -lcnbpcmcm327
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcnbpcmcm327
collect2: ld gab 1 als Ende-Status zurück (ld end-state 1)

I'ved copied the needed files from /usr/lib to 327 and the other way, problem still exist. No such files in /usr/lib64/ to copy.

After some research i found on the ubuntu-forums a note about a 32bit Emulator for the drivers are needed. See: http://gentoo.zugaina.org/app-emulation.html.en
But I don't find this "ebuild"-program on mandriva.

Does anyone does exactly know for what the canon-directory cnijfilter i need?

Thanx
Sturmkraehe

Sven-Arne Reinemo said...

Great page! I just got the MP610 printer and had some trouble getting the most out of it in Linux until I found this page :)

Anonymous said...

Formicrofiche scanning some matlab or c code that obtaines the I,P,B frames from an mpeg movie.

Anonymous said...

Thx for this Hints, tried them on Debian Etch with some packages (sane, cups et al) from testing yesterday.

My Results were not that pretty. Borderless printing on A4 leaves some white Border about 1-1,5mm at right and lower side of the Paper.

As well, OpenOffice won't let me to select smaller borderless Formats. I can select p.e. 4"x6" 101.6x152.4mm borderless in the printing dialog, but there remains a border of 3mm all around the sheet when printing. And if I exit the dialog and enter again, it shows the 4x6" Format with border as the selected one.

So is there anything which can be fixed by hacking the ppd? I would also like to have some custom formats for Fotos (9x13cm, 10x15cm) and CD-Labels.

Next Problem is that the "Paper Feed Switch" option seems not to work. The printer tells me to insert paper into the rear tray, but there is paper in the bottom tray which is used if I select that directly.

And has anybody succeeded in printing directly on a CD with Linux and the MP610? Seems it won't accept the CD tray at all, I could not select it anywhere.

Nicolas said...

If you read carefully Canon's documentation (Win help, UserGuide93.chm), Canon warns about limitations in borderless printing, especially for plain paper.

Furthermore, Openoffice seems to handle "standard" paper formats only, additional ones (like also "Credit Card", in Canon's ppd) seems not to be supported by OpenOffice's printing dialog, which seems to simply ignore or reject them...

I suggest you use rather Gtklp (or kprinter on KDE), instead of OpenOffice's printing dialog. You can install Gtklp as an additional printer in OpenOffice, using the "spadmin" utility, part of OpenOffice package (Choose New printer, PDF converter, Default driver, and enter gtklp as command line). This way, you'll be able to print borderless from OpenOffice, by activating borderless through Gtklp dialog instead.

What is important to understand is that borderless printing uses Canon's proprietary driver, it simply enables the --borderless flag to feed Canon's cifmp610 program. Check that printing is activated with borderless, in a terminal : sudo watch -n 1 "ps aux | grep mp610" , and start a borderless printing job. You should see a cifmp610 line, with the --borderless parameter. After that, what happens remains in Canon's proprietary code...

Now, MP610 "Paper feed switch" does not automatically select which tray has paper. It simply means that paper tray is to be selected with the little select button on MP610. Re-read Canon's MP610 documentation about that.

For CD printing : Canon's driver does not currently support it, but latest MP610 Gutenprint driver (from 5.0.2 to 5.1.6, but broken in 5.1.7!) seems to. MP610 Gutenprint driver works fine (although I did not see any borderless option), and I'll try soon CD printing too. Will post on the blog if successful.

Unknown said...

Thanks for that information. Bad thing is that Debian Packages OpenOffice.org do not allow adding Printers using spadmin. From README.Debian.gz:

If you wish to add additional filters or print commands, you can add them
using 'spadmin'. Note that the 'Add a printer' option is disabled - you
should add printers using your favourite CUPS frontend.

Nicolas said...

Bizarre limitation offered by Debian.

Migrate to Hardy Heron ?
;-)

Anonymous said...

Hi nicolos. A big thank you for providing this code. Great work. What open computing is all about.

I am interested in what anonymous (22.3.08) said about having the thin white borders on two sides as I am having this too but using 4"x6". I know the printer can do this as it works under Windoze. I am trying to print using digikam and kipi-plugin print wizard. I have checked the margins are set to zero and I am using a mp600.

You say "the borders will be 0 if image matches paper format". Does this mean that if the image does not match the 4x6 ratio some margins will be introduced rather than clipping off the edges so there is no margins? How does this interact with the --extend parameter? Will your sudo watch -n 1 "ps aux | grep mp600" catch the extend parameter?

Another potential factor is that kipi paper sizes are 10cm x 15cm which is not 4"x6" (which is 101.6mm x 152.4mm) This could be the source of the margins. If so this is a kipi issue which is a shame as kipi gives nice a page sized box to place over the image so one can choose where the clipping takes place when the image size does not match the paper.

I'd be interested in your thoughts. Perhaps I could get digiKam to use kprinter.

Regards,

Simple Simon.

Nicolas said...

Hi,

The sizes defined in the PPD files correspond to exact dimensions for 4"x6", 4"x8", ...

However, real paper dimensions are a little bit larger. I've got 4"x6" Canon paper, which is 10.2 x 15.3 cm

MP600/MP610 borderless printing is activated with the --borderless flag passed to the cifmp6x0 program.

There's a second flag, --extend, which cannot be set directly by cups printing, but only from the cifmp6x0 program. This flag requests an "extended" printing, a little bit outside paper. It defaults to 2, meaning "extend a little bit outside paper". The printer receives the image to print with exact theoretic paper dimensions, and moves the image a bit towards paper upper corner (about 2mm), leaving thus a little white border on right and bottom...

To have a full image print on the paper, we need thus to "cheat" and send a little larger image to the printer than the true paper size. This can be easily achieved by changing the ImageableArea and PaperDimension parameters in the PPD file.

I'll propose some modified PPDs with that update, in the meantime, you can give a try if you want.
Locate and change the following lines in the PPD in the ImageableArea and PaperDimension sections (keep the original paper sizes ratio between the figures):

for 4"x6" borderless paper:

*ImageableArea 4X6.bl: "0.0 0.0 296.00 444.00"

*PaperDimension 4X6.bl: "296 444"

for 4"x8" borderless paper:

*ImageableArea 4X8.bl: "0.0 0.0 296 592"

*PaperDimension 4X8.bl: "296 592"

Anonymous said...

Hi Nicolos,

Thanks for the help.

I have tried your suggestion of altering paper size to 296.00 444.00 and it works (hooray!). I get borderless prints _but_ I now get one or two hairline white stripes ie no ink (boo) on the print going across the narrow dimension of the print. This is not a print head problem because they occur when I print landscape or portrait (ie the lines go along or across the printing direction depending on orientation but always across the narrow dimension of the photo).

I have tried printing to a file (not using the canon driver tho) and the lines are not visible so it seems to be a problem with the canon software

When we had the smaller paper size set which produced the 2mm borders on two edges the lines did not appear so it seems to be a problem with the new page size. Should we try altering the size again? Maybe reducing the long dimension by a bit?

Many thanks again for your help.

Simple Simon

Nicolas said...

Hi Simple Simon,

I did not experience such lines as you describe, but I'll do some other testing to check again.

In the meantime, yes, you can change the dimensions as you suggest, but you should keep the 3/2 ratio between large and narrow dimensions, in order for the imaging application (like EOG) to display a correct print preview of image (as it reads the selected paper dimensions to display the preview).

Let us know if you can improve the print result.

Nicolas

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I just followed your instructions on an AMD64 system. It worked fine, except for the problem that cups looked for /usr/lib64/cups/filter/pstocanonij, but this file was installed in /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij. Since I had the necessary 32 bit libs installed, I solved the problem by just setting a link from the /usr/lib64/... file to /usr/lib/... - now the printer works.

Thanks for the instructions and help here!

Nicolas said...

Thanks Joerg for the tip, the Canon driver package is compiled for 32 bits, and thus files installed in the corresponding directories, so a small tweak is required for 64 bits, as the 64 libs are in a different directory. I'll add your comment to the article.

Another solution would be to recompile in 64 bits from sources, but this is much harder than using directly the 32 bits compiled Canon libs even on 64 bits systems. And not sure this will really add overall performance to a printing driver...

Anonymous said...

I have a MP470 that came with my system and followed your instructions setting it up as a 610 in cups.
The problem is that the colors aren't merging correctly.The following link is a scan of the test page in Suse 11(x86_64) which can be seen
here
.
Any clue as to what is going on.Could it be that the drivers aren't 100% compatible with my printer?Btw, it does the exact same thing in Mandriva.

Nicolas said...

For the MP470 printer part, you can use the GutenPrint driver for MP150. Reinstall the cups printer by choosing the MP150 GutenPrint driver, that should ship with your distribution.

This thread can also help you:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617700

For the scanner part, MP470 is now supported by Sane CVS, so just get and install Sane CVS, as exposed in this blog.

D. said...

Hey, could you add support for european photo paper sizes?
10x15 cm
13x18 cm
(9x13 cm)

D. said...

I wish someone could pack a debian package with your modifications... best would probably be Canon themselves. ;)

Nicolas said...

Hi,

Unfortunately, Canon have release this Cups PPD as is, and will probably never update it. As it is originally a Canon's proprietary file, it could not be packaged into a GPL distribution.

Concerning the European paper sizes, the 3 sizes are supported (4"x6", 5"x7", L 89mmx127mm), the 2 first ones can already handle borderless with the modified PPD, and you could add borderless to the 3rd one by setting lines l.bl in the PPD, as for other formats (see 4"x6" for instance)

Nicolas

D. said...

I'm currently working on it. With the normal borderless setting I still get borders. So I increased some value in the ppd:
PageSize[370 511]

This worked and helped a bit. But I still haven't succeeded in getting the whole paper full... and right now my printer simply doesn't print the page. I've probably made some mistake somewhere in the ppd.

D. said...

Okay. I've confirmed it's a driver restriction. It doesn't print any more at some point the values are too high.

D. said...

I've gotten this far. It's really almost perfectly filling a 13cm x 18cm photo paper.

But one the width (smaller size), there is still a border that isn't even being printed right now. I don't really know why. Maybe someone has an idea?

It prints 13x18cm borderless if you select 5x7 borderless:
http://rapidshare.com/files/143456161/canonmp610en-5x7borderless_is_really13cmx18cmborderless.ppd.html

!NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER!

I suggest setting up a new printer(with the canon driver, see manuals in this blog) and then replacing its ppd file at /etc/cups/ppd/printer_name.ppd with the one from the download. It's currently only modified for 13x18 borderless.

Comments welcome. :) This is a great blog btw...

Unknown said...

Thanks for a great job! Is it possible to add 9600x2400 dpi printing?

Nicolas said...

Thanks for the 13x18 tweak, I'll publish then soon a new update of the PPDs with this change.

Nicolas

Nicolas said...

9600x2400 dpi is not a standard printing resolution for the Canon cups driver, then I don't think it will be easy to add.

Maybe easier to check if GutenPrint driver can achieve this, the GutenPrint driver works pretty fine now with MP610.

Nicolas

D. said...

Hi Nicholas,

yes, that would be nice. Do you think you could put into an extra entry? Because I've replaced the 5x7. I guess it would be nice if you could do either 5x7 or 13x18. And the setting is currently only changed for the borderless mode. I still don't understand enough of the .ppd format (after hours of changing and testing things...).

Wonderful prints, though. You can do testing by using normal paper with the setting Photo Paper and 5x7 borderless.

Then just hold the actual 13x18 photo paper above the plain paper and check if the size is at least equal. A little overlap is normal under Windows as well I think.

D. said...

By the way: I wrote a little how to treat your printer right:
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2008/09/correct-ink-printer-usage.html

The source is largely an article in a german computer magazine.

D. said...

And I was thinking about a further modification...

If I use the preset for bigger paper size than 5x7, it should be easier to adjust the .ppd to print exactly the size of a 13x18 cm paper. Because then the size limitations of the 5x7 preset should be circumvented.

Unknown said...

Regarding 9600x2400 and gutenprint. I can't choose 9600x2400 but I can choose automatic dpi, but I don't know what that means. The gutenprint driver on the other hand doesn't give me the same quality as the canon driver. Anyone who has any idea why?

Another thing, Im using Ubuntu intrepid with cups 1.3.8 now and cups complains about the ppd-file. It looks like every line with "*CloseUI" should be changed to "*CloseUI:". After doing that, the ppd-file works fine with cups again,

Nicolas said...

The best regarding your 9600x2400 dpi question would be to post it in the gimp-print mailing list, maybe this is an issue that could be fixed.

Concerning the *CloseUI statement, you're right, this is a bug in the PPD file, as the Adobe PPD specification (v4.3, dated 1996) states that the correct statement is *CloseUI:
Probably earlier cups versions tolerated the missing : but 1.3.8 not.

As I have to release a new version of the PPD including some dimensions fitting fixes, I will include this fix too. As soon as I'll have some time to do that, as I've been very busy with the Sane backend (upgrades for TPU scanning, ADF , ...) those times.

Thanks for your report.

Nicolas

jbernardo said...

Any luck with the Canon drivers on 64bit Ubuntu Intrepid? On my machine it now fails, and a "ldd /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij" shows that it is linked to a libcups.so.2 which it can find, even though there is a lib with that name in /usr/lib.
I think I might have to build it from source now...

jbernardo said...

Well, ended up doing it the easy way - copied libcups*.so from a 32 bits intrepid install to /usr/lib32/ on my 64bits machine

Unknown said...

Regarding 64bit intrepid. I had the same problem with libcups*.so, but I had
almost no problem compiling canon drivers with dpkg-builpackage. I had to replace all the "Architecture: i386"-lines with "Architecture: any" in debian/control file. After that dpkg-buildpackage worked. The output was a few "*_2.80-1_amd64.deb"-files. I only used the cnijfilter-common_2.80-1_amd64.deb and the original cnijfilter-mp610series_2.80-1_i386.deb. The other deb-files didn't seem to to be useful. Good luck

jbernardo said...

And were you able to use these "home built" debs without copying the 32bit libcups to /usr/lib32?

Unknown said...

yes, I was

GF said...

About Ibex 64bit.
I have posted a comment on another post in this blog, but I'd like to kind of go back on this here because you have direct experience with it.

I was trying to rebuild the package
from the sources downloaded from Canon, and it fails because (I think) it is not happy with a lot of binary libs shipping as part of the package, and that I'd assume are 32bit.
These are the libs in directories like 327/libs_bin, etc...
Library names like
libcnbpcmcm326.so.*
libcnbpcnclapi326.so.*
and so on. Similar to what Sturmkraehe wrote in a much older post.

How did you (Marcus) get around this?!
I am a novice with debian package building (though a 15-years linux user) and I am not sure how to tweak the process if at all possible in this case.
I have tried to make the suggested edit in the debian/control file, but the build still failed.
The one piece that may actually get built is the *common* package, because I see that its content is quite similar to that of the shipped i386 .deb file.

Marcus, is this the same that you got?
One maybe ok package and a bunch of basically empty ones?

And then you used the shipped deb file for the mp610 series... puzzling as it would seem that it would install some of those "327"
libraries that come 32-bit binary only.

I don't know what they are for, but I am surprised that your system does not complain, even at the installation step!?

Would you be so kind as to articulate what you did a little more?

Thanks a lot.

D. said...

After upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) my printing stopped working. When I then tried out printing pictures in Windows for the first time I found out the pictures look really bad there.

Now it's going to be hard to finish the photo calender... any ideas what might be wrong? I'll try installing the driver again now.

Anonymous said...

I found a cool trick to clean your printheads:
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2008/12/printer-tip-cleaning-your-print-heads.html

jbernardo said...

Lol - I was just going to leave a note about still having the problems building for AMD64 (or more concretely, linking the 32bit libs), but Surmkraehe beat me to it.
My problem is that I am currently unable to do decent photo prints. It looks like the driver messes up orientation or scale, and when I print from digikam I get the right hand third of the photo scaled to half size and printed on the bottom left of the paper, looking not only like the driver was trying to print portrait on a landscape page but like it was rescaling at the same time.

So, I was hoping that someone had been able to build a decent 64bit package of the print drivers - or posted instructions on how to build it, has I have now the same problems as Sturmkraehe.

Anonymous said...

Hi Jbs, it sounds like you have hit this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/310854.
What distribution do you use?

So your packages are probably already doing fine.

Unknown said...

The sourceforge stuff you linked to, would it work for a Pixma 540, I wonder?

*sigh* It's a case of "mum's got linux", and I'd rather not start to mess around with this if it won't do any good. She's got this new fancy printer for Christmas, and, well, so far it's been nothing but trouble for me. :-S She's happy with linux in general, but this is ticking her off in a very bad way. Read: please help. x-D ;-D

Nicolas said...

Kristian,

For the printer part, did you try to use MP540 series printing driver provided by Canon on canon-asia.com site ?

Concerning the scanner part, please try to install Sane CVS, as exposed in this blog, there's great chance that it supports MP540 too.

Unknown said...

@Nicolas, thank you for taking the time to reply.

Sorry; was way to vague in the comment. I have downloaded, and successfully installed drivers from canon's Europe site, looking at the version numbering (3.0) I'm assuming it's identical to the canon-asia thingy. (Please correct me if I'm wrong! If so, I'd be glad to try it out.)

Scanning If I'd found your blog and read about sane-cvs earlier on, I might have given that a shot, given that the user in question is used to sane from before. But the software canon provided is installed and functional, so that's not a issue at the moment.

Printing The user can print text without problems. However, printing photograph-quality stuff isn't straightforward all the time. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. The error echoed is something akin to "j32"; don't have it in front of my, I'm afraid, so it might be something else.

Having googled around a bit, I thought it might be a margin-issue. And indeed, when increasing the margin it sometimes seemed to work. However, it didn't work at all times. And the thing that's ticking the user (a.k.a. "mum") off, is that it seems she needs to muck about with margins almost every time she's to print something.

And that increasing the margin decreases the size of the image, and this is something she's not thrilled about.

So, what I attempted to ask last time was, would you think using the ppd's you've provided might help at all in this case, or would you think the problem(s) lies elsewhere? (Hope I've explained the situation more adequately now.)

Anonymous said...

@kristian:
These problems are not likely to go away with Nicholas' packages. They mostly add additional features and don't fix bugs. I don't think they could, as the bugs are probably in the precompiled software provided by Canon and/or cups and/or ghostscript.

What distribution and version are you using? I've had good results in Ubuntu 8.04 and bad results in 8.10.

Unknown said...

@linux-tipps: Thanks for replying!

Mm, was afraid that would be the case.

Interesting! It's a machine running Ubuntu 8.10. Which package would you recommend trying to downgrade first --- cups, ghostscript or both? To any specific version(s)?

It might be some sort of refresh error: user reports that most of the time, the first attempts of the day work just fine --- regardless of margin settings or any some such. That the problems occur (and indeed what is reported is something akin to "j32") only after having made successful printouts, and trying to get more sheets printed.

Going through the logs I see the following (removed timecodes to conserve space):

D cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D cupsdCloseClient: 7
D [Job 1370] GPL Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error, exit
code 1
D [Job 1370] CIF COMMAND ERROR :file access Error!
D [Job 1370] not support this image format
D [Job 1370] Read 14 bytes of print data...
D [Job 1370] Wrote 14 bytes of print data...
E [Job 1370] pstocanonij write error,32.
I Saving subscriptions.conf...
E PID 27064 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij) stopped with s
tatus 1!
D PID 27065 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb) exited with no errors
.
D [Job 1370] File 0 is complete.
E [Job 1370] Job stopped due to filter errors.
I Saving subscriptions.conf...
I Saving subscriptions.conf...
D [Job 1370] Unloading...


So, what looks to be the culprit? It's the canon stuff, right? Write error? Might it be the printer hasn't been properly reset after last print or something like that?

Unknown said...

More from error.log (prior in time to the log-info above; same job id):

D [18/Jan/2009:12:46:10 +0200] [Job 1370] pstocanonij: /usr/bin/gs -r600 -g4958x7016 -q -dNOPROMPT -dSAFER -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=- -| /usr/bin/cifmp540 --imageres 600 --papersize a4 --media otherphoto --paperload auto --bbox 9,14,586,834 --fit
D [18/Jan/2009:12:46:10 +0200] PID 27063 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps) exited with no errors.

Anonymous said...

@kristian:
It's most likely the same bug as mentioned above. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/310854
see this error log for comparison: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20765973/error_log_debug

The cause is not known. I guess I'd try using a different version of ghostscript. Older and newer might help.

jbernardo said...

@linux-tips: Right on the money - running kubuntu intrepid amd64 here. I have since reinstalled the turboprint 1.96 driver, which I had bought in 2007, but have yet to see if it will print photos properly.

Anonymous said...

Jbs, Kristian: Try out this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/310854/comments/44 and see if it helps? It worked for me. (I only did step 3+4).

Unknown said...

@linux-tipps: Yup. Subscribing to the bug myself. ;) But thanks for pointing it out nevertheless!

I'll try it later today, though I'm not holding my breath. When uprading to 8.10 the canon drivers weren't installed. Thus I would've assumed when installing them afresh that steps #3 and #4 should happen "automatically"; ie that that would be the installation, so to speak. (Though I have canon's drivers v3.0, not 2.8, as it seemed the poster of the comment had.)

But who knows, maybe it doesn't/maybe they don't. I'll try following D's advice just to be on the safe side. ;)

kayou_77 said...

The package is 0 bytes when I download, using Free or OVH in SourceForge.

Is there a good adress to get the right file ?

Anonymous said...

I also get this error:
Bad device-uri "cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0"!

Any solution, to this problem?

qk said...

Hello

In section [papersize] of cifmp600.conf are for borderless printing different numbers for a4 and a4l, but there isn't borderless papersize for 4x6 at all

a4 2
a4l 3
...
5X7 1055
5x7 1055

So questions are:
1. What mean these numbers???
2. Is it correct that 4x6l is missing?

kayou_77 said...

Hello,

I am with Suse 11.1 and have a Pixma MP610. I am connected in Wifi through 9Box from Laptop to Box and Ethernet from Box to PC.

I have installed cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.i386.rpm and cnijfilter-mp610series-2.80-2.i386.rpm
and also /usr/lib/bjlib/cifmp610.conf

I added MP610 through Cups.
When I make a test, nothing happens.


Thank for help

Nicolas said...

Not sure I fully understand the configuration you're using:

- Is the MP610 installed on the laptop or PC ? Both running Linux ?
- Are you trying to print from the network ? Is the MP610 (under USB) correctly installed on its host with Cups, does it print from there ?

Maybe it'll be easier if you contact me by email to dig into this.

kayou_77 said...

Hi Nicolas,

The printer is linked with USB to a 9Box for ADSL not a PC or laptop.

It is working fine with an other PC on Ubuntu and link to the 9Box with Ethernet.

For my laptop, I use wifi and OpenSuse.

Nicolas said...

So did you first try to print with the laptop using the ethernet cable, before trying with Wifi ?

kayou_77 said...

No I try it direct with Wifi.

On Cups, I have this message :

MP610 "réparable : impossible de se connecter à l’imprimante ;

Description : PIXMA MP610
Lieu : Séjour
Marque et modèle : Canon MP620-630 series Ver.2.80fr
État de l'imprimante : ne fait rien, accepte les tâches, publique.
URI du matériel : ipp://MP610/ipp/

To add the printer, I have used :
Matériel : AppSocket/HP JetDirect
URL : ipp://MP610/ipp/

Unknown said...

regarding the helpful post to create a link from the 32bit library to the 64bit lib - how do you do this? I'm using Red Hat Enterprise 6 - 64 bit version.

Thanks