PKGBUILD for Canon Pixma iP1500 Printer

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place, maybe the forum needs a "AUR Packages release" section?
I wrote a PKGBUILD to this printer and I know that it's very difficult to find this driver, and it even can be easily modified to get others similar Canon printers working so I post it here.
I uploaded to AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pixma … 0/PKGBUILD

Glad to help the Arch community the same way you had helped me
@ Chris|MD: When I was searching how to get working mine, I read on Gentoo Forums that someone got the iP2000 working with the Canon BJC-7100 foomatic driver (foomatic package it's in extra repository). You can try that and see if works for you.

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Let me understand:
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MG2200 series MP Drivers Ver. 1.01 (Windows 8/8...        01/31/13    14.07 MB
File Name: mp68-win-mg2200-1_01-ejs.exe
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*My Printer Ver. 3.1.0 (Windows 8/8 x64/7/7 x64/...        01/07/13    5.12 MB
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Max. Resolutions   Optical:1200 x 2400 dpi
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resolve my printer problem.
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you asked for the password for superuser
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hi
I'm trying to get a Canon Pixma iP100 printer connected by usb working with my arch linux.
cups 2.0.1-1
linux 3.18.4-1
for this I created and installed the following packages from the AUR repo
cnijfilter-common
cnijfilter-ip100
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Last edited by psunix (2015-01-29 15:41:43)

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