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cannot print direct from office word to my printer,Cannon ip1000

Asked by Fred Hoiting

have written 4 pages with UBUNTU openoffice.org word processor but cannot print out on my printer Canon Pixma
ip1000.
I am totally new to UBUNTO but like very much to use it in preference to Microsoft Windows.
Can someone out there please advice what I must do to print?
Thank you,
Fred Hoiting

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#1

FIrst of all, make sure CUPS server is up and running by running "sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start". After that, go to System -> Administration -> Printers and follow the wizard.
In order to avoid problems, you should add your user to group lp by running "sudo adduser your_user_name lp" and restart GNOME session (or reboot Ubuntu, if you prefer).
See also http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_iP1000 for further help.

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Fred Hoiting (dienko-h-optusnet) said : 		#2

Dear Luca,
Thank you for the E-mail you send regarding unable to print. I did
download the printer driver and in stalled it in UBUNTU.
It does recognise the printer and tells me it is ready and ask me to
print a test page.When I click OK to that it says"message send to
printer". But it does not print the test page. (the printer is in
perfect working order, it prints fine in Windows XP)
Under systems - administration - there is no "printers" but "printing"
and that does not lead me to the wizard.
So I am really stuck and have a lot of printing waiting to be done.
Can you please help further to solve this. I will be very greatfull.
Kind regards, Fred Hoiting.

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 11:48 +0000, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> Support request #2070 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2070
>
> Comment:
> FIrst of all, make sure CUPS server is up and running by running "sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start". After that, go to System -> Administration -> Printers and follow the wizard.
> In order to avoid problems, you should add your user to group lp by running "sudo adduser your_user_name lp" and restart GNOME session (or reboot Ubuntu, if you prefer).
> See also http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_iP1000 for further help.
>

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bofan (bofandra) said : 		#3

In my case, I just playing with the printer settings... and voila it works!

Hope, it could helps someone...

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