New printer - need driver

[NoOp]

On 03/14/2009 10:44 PM, Wulfy wrote:
> My old printer died on me...  so I bought a nice new shiny Canon printer 
> assuming that I'd have the appropriate driver...  alas, no such luck.
> 
> I was encouraged when the print manager showed the new printer and even 
> got its type tight!  When I asked it to print a test page, the lights 
> flashed and the rollers whirred, but no paper went through and no 
> printing...  :@(
> 
> The driver was for the iP2000 series (I have an iP12500) so I thought 
> I'd go to the Canon site and download the driver from there 
> (cnijfilter-common-2.70-2.src.rpm).  It was an .rpm file <rolls eyes> so 
> I installed alien (and a bunch of other dependencies) and told it to 
> convert and install. It bombed out saying that there was no target for 
> my architecture - it was for i386 and I have amd64 installed (Kubuntu, 
> though that makes no difference, does it?  Drivers are the same for all 
> flavours of *buntu?).
...
Save yourself, time, money (time is money), and aggravation, and spend a
few dollars/euros more and buy TurboPrint:

http://www.turboprint.info/
  http://www.turboprint.info/printers_Canon.html
<http://www.zedonet.com/en_p_turboprint_driver.phtml?printer=Canon_PIXMA_iP2500>
<http://www.zedonet.com/en_shop_turboprint.phtml>

You can try before you buy.

I've tried all forms of drivers for my Canon (MP750), including
guteprint et al, and *always* go back to using TurboPrint. Best $40 that
I've spent for a linux program.