Mark Jarvis wrote:

> 2) A friend has a Canon Pixma IP 1500 printer that he's trying to get
> working on his Ubuntu 9.04 installation. Although the IP 2000 is
> supported, the 1500 is not. He's managed to find, download, and install
> drivers for it (quite impressive for someone that is very new to Linux)
> but is now stumped by a "missing filter" message. I've never had to jump
> through the hoops that he's already done and don't really know what sort
> of a filter could be missing. Any suggestions?
>  
>  From the specs, the (unsupported) IP 1500 seem to be the same basic
>  engine as the (supported) IP 2000, just degraded slightly in speed &
>  memory. I've faked out systems before by telling the add printer wizard
>  that I really had a similar--but supported--printer, but that was with an
>  LPT connection. How does one do something similar with a USB connection?
>  (I'm hampered here in that I'm trying to help via phone and haven't
>  actually seen his box or the choices on his screen.) This should be the
>  easiest way to get him up & running.

http://rix.si/?ip1500
-or-
http://www.canon-
europe.com/Support/Software/Linux/2005/download.asp?ComponentID=369142&SourcePageID=312227#1

it's a SUSE RPM but it should be easily convertable to deb using alien. Or 
you can extract it and find any of a thousand guides online to install 
printer filters manually.

Enjoy

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