Hello, I currently have my Raspberry Pi running Rasbian, acting as a wireless printer/scanner server for a Canon Pixma MP610. The scanner is nice and prompt, using the SANE 'webscan' frontend. The printer, however, is incredibly slow at putting out print jobs (5-30 minutes for a single page). I know that this is a common driver issue for linux, and the answer is usually to install the manufacturer's driver instead of using the included open-source driver. Canon's Driver for the MP610: My problem, then, seems to be in the architecture of the driver. Some 32 bit drivers work on 64 bit architectures simply by forcing it ( dpkg -i -force-architecture.deb).

In this case, however, I get lots of errors that I assume are because of being compiled for the wrong architecture: ldconfig: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is for unknown machine 3 - my questions: 1) Is it possible to get an arm-compiled version of the canon drivers (cnijfilter-common and cnijfilter-mp610series) 2) Does Canon provide source code where it may be compiled for arm? (I couldn't find any) 3) Is there another work-around possible Thanks! I myself have been trying to compile the source provided by Canon for the UFR2 driver–this is for the Canon imageClass MF4350d, a great printer with horrible printing support. It's been a particularly troubling situation. I've managed to successfully compile the cndrvcups-lb-2.50 (also cndrvcups-ufr2-us2.50) driver and run checkinstall to package.deb, but I'm not sure if the package has all the necessary files. I'm pretty sure the main info comes from the cndrvcups-common package. Unfortunately the cndrvcups-common package was a bit harder, and I never got it to compile properly due to its gnome dependencies.

This failed to compile directly from the rPi with lots of. Code: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libcanonslim.so.1 is for unknown machine 3 Here's the result of my labor:. Canon printer shows up and installs to cups ok with all instances. Printer does not print when sent a test page/.

Cups message states: processing since - 'Sending data to printer.' When installed via compiled lb driver and forced common driver/. Cups message states: Processing - '/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca failed' when both debs installed via force flags/. My question to any experienced engineers, can the code even be compiled for arm architecture?

Does the source need some explicit rules or more source to compile? Note that everything compiles just fine on ubuntu 32-bit. Is there a better way to cross-compile for rPi than crosstool-ng? What do the ldconfig library errors mean-is that due to the wrong architecture?

The libs indicated by ldconfig are all provided by the 32-bit source packages as their respective.so files. Does this mean they are all 32-bit libraries and hence that's why this compilation fails so miserably? Cannot attach deb, so here's a link to my server.

I've been slogging through compiling the Canon printer drivers on an Arch Linux arm5 pogoplug. After several days of struggling with automake and configure, I am finally able to compile most of the source, and after installing some of the compiled binaries, I am able to see a new usb interface in CUPS for my attached printer (i960). Now, there are many problems with this path - namely, canon is supplying some of the libs that are needed to link against in x86 binary form only. I have been unable to locate source to build these libs for arm. And, I fear that there is at least one program that may be required (lgmon) to make this work that needs to link against some of these x86 libs.

As I said, I have the canon usb driver compiled and installed and my printer does register with it but I can't seem to get any pages to print. It could be either a flawed ppd or the missing lgmon stuff. When I bring up cups I see this: Connection: cnijusb:/dev/usb/lp0 which wasn't there before I compiled and installed all the canon source. With the normal arch arm CUPS install, I can get my canon i960 printer to work but it is excruciatingly slow. For that configuration, I see as my connection: usb://Canon/i960?serial=2083e8. There is a CUPS Gutenprint driver that works well enough - I've tried to use that driver with the canon USB connection but no go.

I've also tried several of the canon supplied drivers (none are for the i960) but no go. I think the problem is really the missing lgmon piece but I'm not an expert in this - so it may work now if I had an mx series printer or an ip2700 which are the ppd files that canon supplies with the 3.30 distro. If you want to try this yourself, google for cnijfilter-source. There are two tarballs floating around - one is on Canon's asia download site (this is v3.30-1) and the other is from canon europe: I built my binaries using the 3.30 source. I later found the 3.5 source and looked at it but my printer driver is still not there and the libs are sill pre-compiled for x86 so I didn't mess with that.

Oh, and I strongly advise that you install gcc (plus all dev tools: automake, etc.) on your target platform and compile there before you start down this road. Cross compiling is really not advisable. Plan to spend several days downloading dependencies and debugging automake. If you are not an seasoned developer, this path is not advisable.

If you choose to try - I will send you some tips for getting you through some of the compile issues. Bottom line is - you may be more successful just installing a decent Linux distro (Arch is probably most up-to-date) on your device and loading CUPS and Gutenprint. It's a better first approach than trying to compile the canon stuff and you will not be able to compile all the canon stuff until you can find canons libs compiled for arm. If someone out there happens to have the source for canon's common and other libs - I will be happy to get those compiled to. FYI - here's what I get when I try to link my arm built.o files to produce lgmon.without. including the x86 libs. I doubt the problems you are having with very slow printing are anything to do with not using proprietary drivers for your printer.

It is most likely caused by the fact that most inkjet printers require the print job to be rendered on the PC, then sent to the printer. You can see the effect of this when you print from windows - if you have a look at the print queue you will see the size of the print job can be as much as several hundred megabytes for a multi-page colour document with lots of graphics. Since the Raspberry Pi's processor is not very fast and there is a limited amount of memory this is likely to cause significant slowdowns. There are some HP Business Inkjets that understand PCL 5, which is rendered in the printer itself. This would allow you to print from the Pi at a reasonable speed.

You could also try a laser printer, since almost all of these do the rendering themselves as well. I'm using an HP LaserJet 1018 connected to my Raspberry Pi. It works reasonably quickly printing from the Pi itself, but the real reason for doing it is to turn the 1018 into a network printer for my other (Windows) PCs, which it does well.

Printing is slightly slower than having the printer connected directly to the PC but certainly not as slow as you have experienced. Cheers Andrew. I doubt the problems you are having with very slow printing are anything to do with not using proprietary drivers for your printer. OP stated that he's getting 1 page per 5/10minutes.

I can confirm that I was seeing similar speeds on my pogoplug versus 1 page per 10-20 seconds when connected to my Mac. This magnitude of slowdown is not explained by difference in processor speed. Just using a different distro and driver on my plug got me back to normal print speed which confirms that it was a driver issue.

While he may not need the.proprietary. driver, I strongly suspect the OP can greatly improve performance by trying.different. drivers. This is a very well documented problem with Linux printing.

JB, Thanks for your suggestions! Unfortunately I've been bogged down at work for this past month, which is why I haven't been replying here. I too wasn't able to find the required Canon sources, and my Raspberry Pi is sitting pretty much uselessly connected to my printer now.

I may try boot out Debian Wheezy and get arch linux running on there to see what exists in that world for alternate drivers. Once I get a bit more time I may try and contact Canon about this - I doubt they'd provide the source, but who knows - perhaps a compiled arm driver would fall out? Spid, I realized that trying to install x86 drivers on an arm distro would likely end in tears, though I had been curious what sort of errors it would throw given my lack of other options. I may try boot out Debian Wheezy and get arch linux running on there to see what exists in that world for alternate drivers. I was successful with Debian Squeeze. I tried Arch and got it to work but printing was super slow. I may try to upgrade my Squeeze system to Wheezy at some point but I'm pretty satisfied with Squeeze for now.

Printing is super fast and good quality. I was not able to get avahi on squeeze to bonjour with my macs so I eventually shut that service off and just have my plug boot with a fixed ip and then I set my network computers to look for a print queue at that ip on port 631. With a mac, you must supply the path to the cups print queue (of form printers/) for this to work and choose IPP printing when you add the printer.

JohnnyBrandom wrote:I'm happy to report that I am having much better success with getting my Canon i960 printer working through my pogoplug (pink) with the Debian Squeeze distro and using the Foomatic print drivers (actually spoofing the i960 with BJ8PA06N.PPD a.k.a Canon-BJC-8200-bj8pa06n.upp.ppd). It's now printing (normal letter) jobs as fast as it does when connected to my Mac. Now the experiment to see how well the pogoplug will handle operating as my network print server. How did you go about this? I've been wasting my time trying to compile the drivers for my MP640 until I discovered that the cnijnetchk.o cnijnetprn.o files can't be used and there's no source for them. Are you saying I could print wirelessly to my MP640 using another driver? JohnnyBrandom wrote:I'm happy to report that I am having much better success with getting my Canon i960 printer working through my pogoplug (pink) with the Debian Squeeze distro and using the Foomatic print drivers (actually spoofing the i960 with BJ8PA06N.PPD a.k.a Canon-BJC-8200-bj8pa06n.upp.ppd).

It's now printing (normal letter) jobs as fast as it does when connected to my Mac. Now the experiment to see how well the pogoplug will handle operating as my network print server. Hi johnnyBrandom, I too have a Canon printer (imageClass D420) and have been scratching my head installing airprint on my pogoplug. The web interface ipaddres:631 could find the printer, but I just can't find a driver that works with my Canon. Can you tell me how exactly you worked through with the Debian squeeze distro and the Foomatic print drivers?

Sorry i'm new to Linux and may need a little more instruction. (I'm a long time windows/MSDOS user plus a little bit of MacOS). Thanks in advance. Rickwookie wrote: How did you go about this? I've been wasting my time trying to compile the drivers for my MP640 until I discovered that the cnijnetchk.o cnijnetprn.o files can't be used and there's no source for them.

Are you saying I could print wirelessly to my MP640 using another driver? All of my work was done on a pogoplug - not a pi so I apologize for confusion. There are similarities but things will likely be slightly different. I followed Jeff Doozan's guide (mostly) to re-image the plug for use with arm linux distro's. I tried arch, wheezy, and squeeze but foud squeeze was right combination for my set-up.

Once I got my distro working, I loaded cups print system - I then experimented with avahi for bonjour service but that failed. So I ditched avahi and just went with a fixed ip. There were no available driver for my printer but I found a post that mentioned a foomatic driver would work. I loaded foomatic on my plug and then worked through the cups interface settings to get it working. I did not set up airprinting as I don't really need that.

My set up is: wap pogoplugcanoni960 This essentially turned my canon usb i960 into a network printer. I think you need a bonjour service for airprinting but squeeze may not support that.

I need network printing more than airprinting so I settled for this. Shinings wrote: Hi johnnyBrandom, I too have a Canon printer (imageClass D420) and have been scratching my head installing airprint on my pogoplug.

The web interface ipaddres:631 could find the printer, but I just can't find a driver that works with my Canon. Can you tell me how exactly you worked through with the Debian squeeze distro and the Foomatic print drivers? Sorry i'm new to Linux and may need a little more instruction. (I'm a long time windows/MSDOS user plus a little bit of MacOS).

Thanks in advance. There was no driver for the i960 either but someone figure out that one of the available foomatic drivers would work. I also played with gutenprint. Found those through internet searches.

I think you'll have to try to find a print subsystem with a driver that's close enough. While I was working the issue - I did find that the arch had a pretty decent generic cups subsystem - it was missing support form my printer but I think I did get a generic driver to work there - it was slow and not perfect but it might work better for you. Try to find if someone has managed to get your printer working under and arm linux distro (this is where things get dodgy) and try to install that distro. You may have to just try a few distros and see what works best (as I did). It's a bit of a chore but it's a learning opportunity too. I've made significant progress on this subject for those that can only use proprietary UFRII or CAPT Canon x86 drivers. I have a Canon imageCLASS MF4570dn printer.

First, what didn't work: (1) Installing the common and ufr2 deb files and dependencies via the multiarch debian feature. Even after including all the right dependencies to install, every one of the them was marked to break the existing armhf package.

(2) compiling the common and ufr2 deb packages from the source folder provided with the driver. This doesn't work because the source folder contains shared libraries that were already compiled in x86 architecture.

Here's the most recent trail I've taken. I found that you can run x86 programs on the Raspberry Pi by using qemu-i386 and binfmtsupport packages. This allows you to run x86 programs from the command line as you already run arm programs from the command line. I created the default library location for qemu-i386 (/etc/binfmtsupport/i386). I manually extracted the precompiled 32-bit deb files and installed the files (some into the qemu-i386 library folder and some into the arm folders). I also manually downloaded all the dependency x86 packages and extracted the shared library files into the qemu-i386 library folder. The only binary that needs to run is the canon ufr2 cups filter which is pstoufr2cnca.

This binary runs, but fails to complete because internally it calls ghostscript (a common postscript generation program) with opvp device (armhf ghostscript) and ghostscript can't open the device. I found that opvp (OpenPrinting Vector) is really a Japanese printing framework that calls on a module or driver to run properly. This driver is canon shared library (x86). I'm going to try running pstoufr2cnca again with the x86 ghostscript binary instead and see if it can open the device. If I can get pstoufr2cnca to run properly, I'm sure that it will print. I will update as I discover more. Code: pushd /tmp && mkdir libraryname && cd libraryname wget ar x tar.gz-file data.tar.xz -OR- ar x tar.gz-file data.tar.gz tar xvC /etc/qemu-binfmt/i386 -f data.tar.xz./etc./lib./usr/lib -OR - tar xvC /etc/qemu-binfmt/i386 -f data.tar.gz./etc./lib./usr/lib popd Finally, since the proprietary cups filter pstoufr2cpca calls ghostscript with an x86 driver/shared library, we also need to download and install the x86 version of ghostscript and all of it's library dependencies as well following the convention above.

You may be wondering, 'I have two different copies of the ghostscript program now. How do I tell pstoufr2cpca to use the x86 one instead of the arm one?' Not so lucky for us, pstoufr2cpca calls the ghostscript program by full path '/usr/bin/gs'. We'll need to create a bash script that replaces '/usr/bin/gs' and allow the bash script to call the correct ghostscript program. Here's the contents of the bash script that I made. I renamed the ghostscript programs to 'gs-i386' and 'gs-arm' and put them in /usr/bin.

This script must also be given execute permission by using chmod. Code: export PPD=/usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSMF4500ZS.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/bannertopdf 1 me ' 1 ' bannertopdf.pdf /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf 1 me ' 1 ' pdftopdf.pdf /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops 1 me ' 1 ' pdftops.ps /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca 1 me ' 1 ' pstoout.out If this produces errors, you'll need to check if qemu is running the cups filter, is the correct ghostscript program running, and do you have all the dependency x86 libraries installed, etc. For reference, here's the list of library files that I have in my x86 library folder (these are all debian jessie x86 library files).

Wgjhstt247, I confess to being a bit of a novice here. I've installed binfmt-support and qemu-i386 as described but I am not seeing the default directory /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386. Of course I can create it but was this supposed to manifest as a result of the installation of the packages above? Next, I see your UFR2 driver is of the US variety. I was only able to locate the v3.30 driver from the UK. Probably a negligible difference but just something I noticed.

Also, regarding the dependencies libraries, I see you have laid out the format for manual installation but, forgive my ignorance here, where can I find what is required for the Canon UFR driver? I'm happy to put in the work but just not sure where to look. Sorry for the barrage of questions but I'd say after scouring several forums, you are about the only success story with a Pi CUPS server and the Canon UFR driver. Rob, The default directory, /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386, should be a symbolic link to /etc/qemu-binfmt/i386. You have to create this manually. The command to create this is in the previous post.

You can download the latest UK driver version from Canon Support UK. There should be no difference between the US and UK versions except language/model. You can run this to find the immediate dependencies of the driver packages, but it won't give you the full dependency list because these dependencies also have dependencies which also have dependencies, etc.

I've provided a list of library files in my original post which should suffice as a full dependency list.

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