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    trying to install canon pixma ip1800 printer

    Sorry if this is a bit long...

    I have a Canon pixma ip1800 printer that I used to use on Windows XP. I am trying to install it on my new PC that runs Kubuntu.

    When I connected the printer, it seemed to recognize it automatically. If I go to System Settings / Printers, it is listed as "Canon iP1800 series".

    If I try to print, however, I get this error and to be honest I have no idea what it means:
    cupsdoprint -P 'iP1800_series' -J 'xx' -H '/var/run/cups/cups.sock:631' -U 'george' -o ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3' '/tmp/kde-george/kdeprint_ZWfORabu' : execution failed with message:
    client-error-document-format-not-supported
    I tried doing a search with Google and on the Ubuntu forum but I found nothing relevant except for a Canon site that provides a driver:
    http://support-au.canon.com.au/conte...900718601.html
    I downloaded it and it's an rpm that I don't know what to do with.

    I tried going to System Settings / Printers / Add Printer Wizard but when I got the printer model selection, the iP1800 was not there. I tried opening the rpm file using the "other..." button but it rejected it.

    I came to this forum and read this FAQ:
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3099811.0
    I followed the instructions to use the CUPS web page but the only printer driver it found was for iP1400 gutenprint or something. I tried installing it on that basis. Now when I print it doesn't give me the error message, but nothing comes out at all.

    Can anyone help?
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    Re: trying to install canon pixma ip1800 printer

    Your link to Canon Australia doesn't seem to work. The relevant page seems to be http://support-au.canon.com.au/EN/se...&menu=Download

    Sometimes, but not 100% of the time, you can convert an .rpm to a .deb using the app called alien. Try the command:
    sudo alien (name of the program to be converted)
    If you look at the page the .rpm is #6 or #9. There is also a Source file at #11, Linux Operation Guide at #11 and Linux FAQ at #15

    "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." --Charles F. Kettering
    "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."--Dr. Seuss
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      Re: trying to install canon pixma ip1800 printer

      Hi Raichu,

      I have on my blog how i succeed install my Pixma IP1880 at http://ahyeop.blogspot.com/2007/11/i...rinter-on.html

      I used a guide to setup printer on PIXMA iP1800 at http://crovegnoux.blogspot.com/2007/...en-feisty.html. Sadly it is not in English. I think it is in Spanish. I might be wrong, as i don't understand the language as I am from Malaysia. But I can understand the steps.

      Hope this will help.

      ahYeop
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        Re: trying to install canon pixma ip1800 printer

        Unfortunately that seems to be for an older version of Kubuntu.

        Fortunately, however, I asked a workmate and he managed to find this site:
        http://hex1a4.net/xubuntu/howto.php?htid=04

        That seems to have worked.
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