Canon MP280 not printing

I'm hesitant in making yet another "Canon X not printing" thread, but after trying methods listed in the other threads, and not knowing where I'm going wrong, I thought I'd ask for some help on it.
I've read the various Canon MPXXX threads, and followed the steps in them like the thing with libpng12 yet still no ability to print. I'm connecting through usb so I'm using cups-usblp, when I go into the web config utility, I add the printer using the cnijusb backend. The curious thing though is that there is no response in the printer, however when using the usb backend the 7-seg display at least shows the printing status for a brief moment.
I've tried it with both cups and cups-usblp, with and without the Canon proprietary drivers, with and without gutenprint, with and without turboprint. I had it working in Ubuntu 10.04 64bit by just installing the .deb packages from Canon. Also of note is that whenever installing from AUR, I can't install any cnijfilter-common without it conflicting with cnijfilter-mp280. And whenever I'm trying to get it to work I make sure that /dev/usb/lp1 (what it detects as) is set to root:lp 0666 to avoid perm problems.
I've literally been trying to get it working for a week now, I got it instead of an HP because the ink is slightly cheaper, but maybe I should have stuck with the HP like intended.

I must not have seen it in the mountain of output when I scanned through it before. Looks like cifmp280 looks for libcnbpcnclapi370.so and the one I got is *356.so. All I would need to do is find the proper version file, add it to /usr/lib and make a symlink to libcnbpcnclapi370.so, if I'm not mistaken. I'll try that out now, and see if it works.
I'm also going to assume it's that issue that is making the backend fail, since I can't find any output like I did for cifmp280 for cnijusb.
EDIT: I went ahead and replaced all *365 libraries with their *370 replacements in /usr/lib. cifmp280 still complains about libcnbpcnclapi370.so missing and instead of pending, jobs are instantly completed. Ought I check the lib32 folder, or disregard it?
EDIT2: My issue is that I keep trying to read a ton of info in error_log file through tail -f. Noted the time of the test job and opened it in nano, so I can look harder at the output. I'll make a third update with more info from the log in a bit, if I can't get it working myself.
Last edited by zerologik (2012-03-08 14:43:43)

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