Printer prints half of page

The printer (Canon PIXMA MP190) prints pages successfully - very clear - but I need to wait about 5 minutes for each page to be printed. It prints normally (fast) about one half of page, then it stops... The another half of page is printed very slowly.

I am running 14.04. In the previous versions (<= 13.10), the printer was working properly.

What can be the issue? The clarity?

I don't need such a good clarity, but I don't know how to change it.

How can I solve the problem?

I have another machine running Elementary Isis Beta (that is based on Ubuntu 14.04, I guess). The printer works fine, being connected to that machine.

Relevant outputs:

# Elementary Isis Beta
$ uname -a
Linux ionica-desktop 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# The main machine, running Ubuntu 14.04, having the issue
$ uname -a
Linux laptop 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

1 Answer

Unfortunately, your printer is listed as a paperweight by Open Printing. I take that to mean it will take a bit more work to get your printer up and running.

I did find this old Ubuntu Forums thread, which gave us some instructions on how to install the printer from Canon's provided files.

Anyway, you're supposed to:

1. Download the .tar file from Canon. (Make sure you read and agree to the license agreement at that link.)

   wget 

2. Extract everything.

   tar -xf ./MP190_debian_drivers.tar
   tar -xf ./MP190_debian_printer.tar
   tar -xf ./MP190_debian_scangear.tar

3. Unpackage the driver. You need to modify the dependencies after.

   dpkg-deb -x cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb common
   dpkg-deb --control cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb

4. Open the file named control in the new DEBIAN folder with a text editor. Here I use nano, but you can use gedit, kate, leafpad, or what have you.

   nano ./DEBIAN/control

5. One Line 6, which lists Depends:, change libcupsys2 to libcups2. There is no need to change anything else, though it can be mildly amusing to change the Description:. Save and quit.

6. Copy the DEBIAN folder into the common folder/

   cp -R ./DEBIAN ./common

7. Repackage the driver.

   dpkg -b common cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb

8. Clean up.

   rm -r ./common ./DEBIAN

9. Repeat the process of unpackaging, modifying, and repackaging for cnijfilter-mp190series_3.00-1_i386.deb.

In short:

wget
tar -xf ./MP190_debian_drivers.tar
tar -xf ./MP190_debian_printer.tar
dpkg-deb -x cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb common
dpkg-deb --control cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb
sed -i 's/libcupsys2/libcups2/' ./DEBIAN/control
cp -R ./DEBIAN ./common
dpkg -b common cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb
rm -r ./common ./DEBIAN
dpkg-deb -x cnijfilter-mp190series_3.00-1_i386.deb common
dpkg-deb --control cnijfilter-mp190series_3.00-1_i386.deb
sed -i 's/libcupsys2/libcups2/' ./DEBIAN/control
cp -R ./DEBIAN ./common
dpkg -b common cnijfilter-mp190series_3.00-1_i386.deb
rm -r ./common ./DEBIAN
sudo dpkg -i ./cnijfilter-*.deb