Canon Pixma IP3000 experiences?

I have a Canon Pixma IP3000 here, and it's an awesome printer, except when I got it (I was still on Gentoo) I couldn't get it to work properly (no duplex support, bad colour prints), so I've been using it from the windows installation on my laptop. But since Arch is so awesome, I thought maybe it can work now. So, anyone have experience with running this printer?

there are good drivers based on the japan canon drivers ... but there only debian packages and i was not able to convert them with deb2targz
maybe someone could help me
drivers from : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/
bjfilter-2.5 : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
libcnbj-2.5 : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
pstocanonbj : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
outputs :
[johannes@Johannes Drucker]$ deb2targz *deb
deb2targz: converting 'bjfilter-2.5_1-1_i386.deb' ...
deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'bjfilter-2.5_1-1_i386.tar.gz'
deb2targz: converting 'libcnbj-2.5_0-1_i386.deb' ...
deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'libcnbj-2.5_0-1_i386.tar.gz'
deb2targz: converting 'pstocanonbj_3.3-1_i386.deb' ...
deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'pstocanonbj_3.3-1_i386.tar.gz'
than i tried installing using pacman :
[johannes@Johannes Drucker]$ sudo pacman -A *tar.gz
Password:
loading package data... load_pkg: missing package info file in bjfilter-2.5_1-1_i386.tar.gz
if someone could help me it would be very nice!

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there are good drivers based on the japan canon drivers ... but there only debian packages and i was not able to convert them with deb2targz
maybe someone could help me
drivers from : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/
bjfilter-2.5 : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
libcnbj-2.5 : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
pstocanonbj : http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takush … 1_i386.deb
outputs :
[johannes@Johannes Drucker]$ deb2targz *deb
deb2targz: converting 'bjfilter-2.5_1-1_i386.deb' ...
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deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
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deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'libcnbj-2.5_0-1_i386.tar.gz'
deb2targz: converting 'pstocanonbj_3.3-1_i386.deb' ...
deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary'
deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz'
deb2targz: wrote 'pstocanonbj_3.3-1_i386.tar.gz'
than i tried installing using pacman :
[johannes@Johannes Drucker]$ sudo pacman -A *tar.gz
Password:
loading package data... load_pkg: missing package info file in bjfilter-2.5_1-1_i386.tar.gz
if someone could help me it would be very nice!

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