================================================================================= Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux Version 1.80 PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY ================================================================================= --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trademarks Adobe, Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, PostScript and PostScript 3 are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. HP-GL is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS Before Starting 1. Introduction 2. Distribution File Structure of the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux 3. Hardware Requirements 4. Cautions, Limitations, and Restrictions --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for using the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. This printer driver provides printing functions for Canon printers operating under the CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) environment, a printing system that operates on Linux operating systems. 2. Distribution File Structure of the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux ----- The Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux distribution files are as follows: Furthermore, the file name for the CUPS driver common module and printer driver module differs depending on the version. - README-ufr2-1.8xUK.txt (This document) Describes supplementary information on the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. - LICENSE-ufr2drv-1.8x.txt Describes User License Agreement on the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. - guide-ufr2-1.8xUK.tar.gz Online manual that explains how to use the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. This includes the system requirements, installation, and usage of the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. Because this file is in a compressed format, you need to extract it to the appropriate directory before reading. - cndrvcups-common-1.80-X.i386.rpm (for 32-bit) - cndrvcups-common-1.80-X.x86_64.rpm (for 64-bit) - cndrvcups-common_1.80-X_i386.deb (for Debian 32-bit) Installation package for the CUPS driver common module used by the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. - cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-1.80-X.i386.rpm (for 32-bit) - cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-1.80-X.x86_64.rpm (for 64-bit) - cndrvcups-ufr2-uk_1.80-X_i386.deb (for Debian 32-bit) Installation package for the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. - cndrvcups-common-1.80-X.tar.gz Source file for the CUPS driver common module used by the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. - cndrvcups-lb-1.80-X.tar.gz Source file for the Canon UFR II Printer Driver for Linux. 3. Hardware Requirements -------------------------------------------------------- This printer driver can be used with the following hardware environment. Hardware: Computer that is enable to operate Linux, with x86 compatible CPU (32-bit or 64-bit) Suppoeted Printer: LBP3360 LBP3370 LBP3460 LBP5360 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 Please see the online manual about the install method and the concrete usage. 4. Cautions, Limitations, and Restrictions ------------------------------------- - Ghostscript which includes common API is required to use this printer driver. Make sure to install Ghostscript before installing this printer driver. Refer to the following URL to find out how to get Ghostscript. http://opfc.sourceforge.jp/index.html.en - If you install "cndrvcups-common" package version 1.80, make sure you install the same version of the "cndrvcups-ufr2" package, i.e. 1.80. - Update install is not available when you update to the version 1.40 or later, as the file names are not consistent with the older versions. If you have older version on your computer, you have to uninstall the older driver then install the new driver. - If more than two drivers are installed using the LIPSLX, UFRII(US), and UFRII (UK) driver install packages, and only one of these drivers is updated, an error will occur. This problem can be solved by updating all of the installed drivers together. - When specifying multiple pages/copies for [Pages per sheet] in the [General] sheet to print a document created with StarSuite7/OpenOffice, due to a cause of operation by the CUPS module, settings are not correctly assigned to the multiple pages and output. - PostScript files created with the number of copies specified in OpenOffice.org or StarSuite are affected not by the value specified by [Number of copies] in the [cngplp] dialog box (the driver UI), but by the number of copies set when creating the PostScript file. - If settings are changed from the driver UI, during print processing, the printed result will reflect the changed settings. - If [Brightness and Gamma] is specified in the [General] sheet from an application such as OpenOffice.org, GIMP, or Acrobat Reader v.5.0, the settings will be invalid. - If you set [Filter] to [HP-GL/2 options] in the [Filter] sheet of the printer driver UI, due to a cause of operation by the CUPS module, the [Pen width] setting is invalid. - You cannot print a PDF document by directly specifying it from the desktop or command line. When printing a PDF document, it is recommended that you print it from Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader. - The maximum number of files that can be held in the print queue when printing is 500 according to CUPS specifications. Files queued after the 500th file will be ignored. - If you are using SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3, the driver UI may display unintelligible characters. You can solve this problem using the following method. 1) Log in as 'root'. 2) Execute the following command to change the GTK+ environment settings. # cd /etc/ # ln -s opt/gnome/gtk ./ - If you are using SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3, a warning may occur when you activate the driver UI. You can solve this problem using the following method. 1) Open [K Menu] -> [Control Center]. 2) Select [Appearance & Themes]. 3) Select [Colors]. 4) Deselect [Apply colors to non-KDE applications]. 5) Close [Control Center]. - When printing from OpenOffice.org, some finishing functions such as [Rotate] may not operate correctly if you specify multiple copies for [Number of copies] in the driver UI. - If you are using SUSE Linux 9.3 or SUSE Linux 10.0, and are printing from the [Print] dialog box of Mozilla or FireFox, because the multiple copies setting is not enabled, you can print only one copy regardless of how many copies you have specified. This problem can be solved by changing the following line in the file "/etc/cups/mime.convs". [Before change] application/mozilla-ps application/postscript 33 pswrite [After change] application/mozilla-ps application/postscript 33 pstops - If you are using Fedora Core 5 or later, when SELinux is set to Enforcing or Permissive, you cannot print with the default settings. You can enable printing by changing the settings as follows. 1) Open System menu ->[Administration] ->[Security Level and Firewall]. 2) Select [SELinux]tab ->[Modify SELinux Policy] ->[Printing]. 3) Check the 4 check boxes under [Printing]. 4) Click [OK] to close the window. - If you are using Fedora 7 or later, and if SELinux is set to Enforce, you need to install a policy package using the following method. (You do not need to install a policy package if Permissive is specified.) 1) Install the printer driver package, then specify the settings for the printer. * Please see the online manual about the install method and the setting method. 2) Check if the checkpolicy package is installed. # rpm -qa | grep checkpolicy If the package name is not displayed, install the package using the following command. # yum install checkpolicy 3) Set SELinux to Enforcing. 1. From the menu bar, select [System] - [Administration] - [SELinux Management]. 2. In the dialog box, set [System Default Enforcing Mode] to [Enforcing], and then click [OK]. 4) Restart Linux. 1) Set SELinux to Permissive. # /usr/sbin/setenforce 0 2) Print to the object printer. Example: Printing the CUPS text document to LBPxxxx # lpr -P LBPxxxx /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps 3) Create a policy package. # audit2allow -M cncapt -l -i /var/log/audit/audit.log 4) Install the policy package. # /usr/sbin/semodule -i cncapt.pp 5) Restart Linux. - When performing banner printing in Fedora 8 or Fedora 9, if you specify a setting other than [none] for [End] under [Banner] in the [General] sheet, the print queue will stop. - If you attempt to print from a Color iR printer using this driver in a Fedora 9 64-bit system environment, printing results may not be satisfactory. This is because when the Fedora 9 64-bit packages are installed by the standard installation method, the 32-bit JPEG library is not installed. This problem can be solved by installing the package as an additional installation. Execute the following command. # yum install libjpeg.i386 - If you are using OpenSUSE 10.2 or SLED10SP1, which includes Ghostscript version 8.15.3, you may not be able to print some documents. To solve this problem, install another version of Ghostscript. - If you are using OpenSUSE 11.0 with Ghostscript version 8.6.x, printing from Evince, GIMP, or other applications may take time. - If you are using Adobe Reader 7.0.x, and modify such settings as Paper Size, Paper Source, Duplex Printing, etc. in the print dialog window, these options are automatically added to the printer command. However, these settings will not work because they cannot be recognized as command options. To solve this problem, use "-o" to separate each command options. [before] -o InputSlot=Manual,Duplex=DuplexNotumble [after] -o InputSlot=Manual -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble - When printing PDF files using Adobe Reader 8, there may be instances where some image data is not printed. This problem can be avoided by using Adobe Reader 7. - When performing 2-sided printing with Adobe Reader 8.1.2, if you specify [ON (Short-edged Binding)] for [Duplex Printing] in the print properties for Adobe Reader 8.1.2, the document will be printed on both sides with long-edged binding. This problem can be avoided by printing the document using the cngplp command from the command line. - If you are using Vine Linux 3.1, you may take time to print from Adobe Reader 7.0.9 or may not be able to print some documents. - When printing PDF files containing Japanese characters from the command line in Vine Linux 4.1, there may be instances where Ghostscript terminates unexpectedly, causing printing to stop. This problem can be avoided by printing PDF files using Adobe Reader. - When printing PDF files from Adobe Reader 8 in Vine Linux 4.1, there may be instances where Ghostscript terminates unexpectedly, causing the print queue to stop. This is caused by Ghostscript (7.07) not being able to analyze PS files created by Adobe Reader 8, and consequently terminating prematurely, thereby stopping the filtering process. This problem can be avoided by using Adobe Reader 7. - When printing text files in landscape orientation in Vine Linux 4.1, Vine Linux 4.2, Fedora 8, Fedora 9, or RedHat Enterprise Linux v.5, there may be instances where the text file is printed in portrait orientation with some of the print data not being printed on the page. This is caused by the CUPS filter employed by the distribution you are using creating a PS command that is already set to portrait. This problem can be avoided by changing the CUPS filter name specified in the "text/plain" entry line in the CUPS setting file "mime.convs" to the CUPS standard filter "texttops". This will result in Japanese characters being misprinted, therefore when printing Japanese characters, a PS command must first be created using a text editor or text-Postscript conversion program such as paps. Also, some of the functions provided in the CUPS standard filter "texttops" may not operate correctly. - If you are using Vine Linux 4.2, the [Filter] - [Text file options] settings in the [Filter] sheet may not be applied in the resulting printout. This problem can be avoided by changing the CUPS filter name specified in the "text/plain" entry line in the CUPS setting file "mime.convs" to the CUPS standard filter "texttops". This will result in Japanese characters being misprinted, therefore when printing Japanese characters, a PS command must first be created using a text editor or text-Postscript conversion program such as paps. Also, some of the functions provided in the CUPS standard filter "texttops" may not operate correctly. - If you specify Paper Source settings in the print dialog of an application such as Writer of OpenOffice.org, the settings made from the application are overridden by the printer driver UI settings. To print from the desired Paper Source, specify the Paper Source from the printer driver UI beforehand, or print from the command line. - If you are using Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, a PPD file error may occour when you register the printer (PPD) with the print spooler. To solve this problem, use "-P (full path to the ppd)" instead of "-m" when you specify the ppd using the command line. Example: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p iRC5180 -P /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSIRC5180ZK.ppd -v lpd://192.168.1.10/iRC5180 -E - Depending on the distribution you are using, when you register the USB printer with the print spooler specifying /dev/usb/lp* as [Device URI], printing may fail with an error "Printer not Connected" displayed. To solve this problem, specify the printer specific name as [Device URI] that is displayed by using the following command. ExamplejWhen you use MF4600Series 1) Display the [Device URI] # /usr/sbin/lpinfo -v direct usb://Canon/MF4600%20Series%20(FAX) direct usb://Canon/MF4600%20Series%20(PCL5e) direct usb://Canon/MF4600%20Series%20(PCL6) direct usb://Canon/MF4600%20Series%20(UFRII%20LT) 2) Register the printer #lpadmin -p MF4600_USB -m CNCUPSMF4600ZK.ppd -v usb://Canon/MF4600%20Series%20(UFRII%20LT) -E - If you are using Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, you may take time to print from Evince or may not be able to print some documents. To solve this problem, print the document from other application. - When printing PDF files from Adobe Reader in Mandriva, regardless of the version being used, there may be instances where Ghostscript terminates unexpectedly, causing the print queue to stop. This is caused by Ghostscript (8.60) not being able to analyze PS commands created using PS files for which security settings have been specified, and consequently terminating prematurely, thereby stopping the filtering process. This problem can be avoided by not printing PDF files that have security settings using Adobe Reader. - If you are using Mandriva One 2008 Spring with CUPS version 1.3.6, unintended print results may occur even when printing with standard CUPS print functions. This problem can be solved by updating CUPS. - If your version of Ghostscript is 8.6.x, you may not be able to print some documents. - There may be instances where MF4270, or L90/L160/L230 printers, depending on the environment and type of print data, cannot print due to a printer data error at the device end. This is caused by a time out error occurring at the device end. This problem can be avoided by turning the error time out setting off at the device. ================================================================================= Support ================================================================================= This Software and Related Information are independently developed by Canon and distributed by Canon local company. 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