[SOLVED] CUPS does not list Canon PIXMA MP500 printer in Add Printer

I'm finally getting Arch up on my desktop (second time I've fooled around with Arch seriously) and it's been going smoothly so far. I've hit a roadblock when trying to get my printer (multipurpose Canon PIXMA MP500) set up with CUPS. I've followed the wiki directions on CUPS and "CUPS printer-specific problems" to get it installed. dmesg gives me information saying it's plugged in via USB, and the scanner on the printer works with sane/xsane with no additional configuration. However, CUPS isn't displaying the printer in the Add Printer dialog on the web interface after I've logged in as root; it's giving me Serial Port #1, Serial Port #1, and CUPS-PDF.
I can't find information about an MP500-specific driver, and I don't know if using the MP540 driver is what I need. I'm stumped with this; has anyone tried to install this printer before, or gotten it to work? Thanks!
Last edited by polyphanes (2011-12-06 01:50:22)

Success! I got CUPS to recognize my printer by using cups-usblp and removing usblp from the blacklist. The printer now shows in the add printer dialog on the web interface. I originally had an error "Add Printer Canon_MP500 Error (Unable to get list of printer drivers: Unknown)" when adding the printer; however, after installing the most recent cnijfilter-common from the AUR and a good reboot, I was able to add the printer and select a driver "Canon PIXMA MP500 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7", and it works!
Marking this thread as solved.

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renegat wrote:
I don't know if this issue is a bug or if I'am doing something terribly wrong.
I've installed ArchLinux without GUI, just base, as a pure printserver a few weeks ago with only cups running and it worked.
But when I try to do exactly the same installation again on same PC (tried IPFire meanwhile) it is a mess!
First CUPS suddenly needs avahi to be running (enabled).
Without it, I get a 'core-dump' error:
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systemd[1]: cups.service: main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT
Next cups does not start, does not offer shared printers and is not accessible through web interface until I start it manually.
Than everything works as supposed.
On reboot: same procedure!
Of course I edited 'cupsd.conf' on the server, added
Listen *:631
and
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to all <Loaction> entries.
Though I enabled cups (which in fact only enables the cups.socket) I do not get it to work.
So it seems to be a problem with this non reacting cups.socket, perhaps?
BTW: sshd.socket works.
There are no errors which I could post.
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PS:
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