Canon iP2600 drivers for Linux

Guide to install iP2600 drivers on linux

The objective of this guide is to get an iP2600 printer to work on linux so it can be put on the LAN with CUPS.

This guide will discuss debian based installation only. It should be possible on arch as well if you manage to add the libraries those binaries complain about.

Patching (You can skip if you download the ones provided in the debian folder)

Because this driver is very old (Release date: 08 July 2009) the package libcupsys2 is not available anywhere anymore, but the important bit is the lib file libcups.so.2 which is available in the package libcups2. It is necessary to change this dependency so apt can find the library this driver is looking for.

0. You can skip this by downloading the already patched drivers:
   • cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
   • cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb
1. Download the drivers from canon's website
2. Change libcupsys2 dependency to libcups2 containing the same library as described in this tutorial (do this to both deb files)
   • dpkg-deb -x name-of-package.deb tmpdir Extract the .deb file
   • dpkg-deb --control name-of-package.deb tmpdir/DEBIAN Extract the control file
   • Edit the dependency
   • dpkg -b tmpdir new-name-of-package.deb Rebuild the .deb file

Installing

0. Install qemu-user-static if you are running this on an arm machine
1. Enable i386 repos

   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
   

   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
   

   deb [ arch=i386 ] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main
   deb [ arch=i386 ] http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main universe
   

   sudo apt-get update
   

2. Install cnijfilter-common (all available dependencies should install automatically)

   sudo dpkg --install PATCHED_cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
   

   sudo apt-get install ./PATCHED_cnijfilter-common_2.90-1_i386.deb
   

3. Install libpng12 from the provided .deb file
4. Install multiarch-support (libtiff4 dependency) from the provided .deb file
5. Install libtiff4 from the provided .deb file
6. Install cnijfilter-ip2600series

   sudo dpkg --install PATCHED_cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb
   

   sudo apt-get install ./PATCHED_cnijfilter-ip2600series_2.90-1_i386.deb
   

This should do it!

Note:

Note: you may need to change the ownership of /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij as stated in this thread

sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij

The related status of the printer in CUPS is:

Idle - “File “/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij” has insecure permissions (0100755/uid=1000/gid=1000).”