Canon iR C2880 Debian UFR and Postscript drivers

I've always disliked the fact that I couldn't print to our Canon iR C2880 in color. It's not got the postscript option, which had I known how difficult it would have been for non-Windows PC's to use it, I would have investigated that option.

They advertise the fact that the folks at Codehost, Inc. make a product called BrightQ that will print to these machines, but I never got it working well on my SuSE distribution.

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I just recently updated my desktop from SuSE Linux Desktop Enterprise 10.1 to Ubuntu 9, and I've not been more pleased, but STILL couldn't print in color to our Canon...until now.

I found a thread about this subject here where a kind soul named Andy informed the board that Canon Australia released Linux UFR and Postscript drivers in Deb, RPM, and source!

According to the documentation, the following Canon printers are supported:

• LBP3360
• LBP3370
• LBP3460
• LBP5360

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• LBP5960
• LBP5970/5975
• iR1018/1022/1023
• iR105+
• iR2016/2016i
• iR2018/2018i
• iR2020/2020i
• iR2022/2025/2030
• iR2230
• iR2270/2870
• iR2830
• iR3025
• iR3030
• iR3035/3045
• iR3225/3225N
• iR3230/3230A/3230N
• iR3235/3235A/3235N/3245/3245A/3245N
• iR3530
• iR3570/4570
• iR4530
• iR5055/5065
• iR5075
• iR5570/6570
• iR7086/7095/7095P/7105
• iR8070
• iR85+
• iR9070
• iR C2380i/C2550/C2550i
• iR C2580i
• iR C2880/C2880i/C3380/C3380i
• iR C3080/C3080i/C3580/C3580i
• iR C3180/C3180i
• iR 3180C/3180Ci
• iR C4080/C4580
• iR C5180
• iR C5185
• iR C5870/C6870
• iR C5880/C5880i/C6880/C6880i
• iR 5880C/5880Ci/6880C/6880Ci
• imagePRESS C1
• MF4010
• MF4100 Series
• MF4270
• MF4600 Series
• MF6530/6540PL/6550/6560PL/6570/6580PL
• MF7170i
• L90/160/230
• LC800/L3000

I found that my Ubuntu installation was missing libcupsys2, which was easily remidied by issuing 'sudo apt-get install libcupsys2'. I was then able to use the Gdebi Package installer by right-clicking the .deb packages and choosing that option.

If you aren't using Ubuntu, read the release notes included. There are MANY issues listed for Mandravia, SuSE, Fedora, and Debian.

I ran a test print, and viola, it came out in color!