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When I print to my Canon LBP2900, Ubuntu shows printing completes, but nothing is really printed.

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    Could you please add a little more detail? What exactly did you do, what did you expect to happen and what happened instead? How did you set up the printer and its driver originally? Did you encounter any warning or error messages? Please reproduce them in their entirety in your question. You can select, copy and paste terminal content and most dialogue messages in Ubuntu. Please edit your post to add information instead of posting a comment. (see How do I ask a good question?) May 21, 2018 at 8:30
  • I've seen this happen before. Is there paper in the printer?
    – Elder Geek
    May 21, 2018 at 15:57
  • so this device needs Canon's CAPT driver; latest version is 2.71 from here support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100459601.html
    – pdc
    May 21, 2018 at 18:53
  • they are all asking you: how did you set the printer up, to print: which drivers did you install etc
    – pdc
    May 21, 2018 at 18:54
  • so Navneet: this printer needs the Canon CAPT driver; we can guide you through; have you installed the CAPT drivers please; happy to guide on that too
    – pdc
    May 22, 2018 at 21:00

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4 steps are needed:

1) install the drivers

2) Register the printer (PPD)

3) Register the printer in the ccpd daemon setup file

4) Start ccpd daemon

STEP ONE go here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100459601.html and download and save what will be linux-capt-drv-v271-uken.tar.gz

open a terminal; copy each command below; line by line; paste it into the terminal; hit ENTER key after each paste;

cd Downloads
tar -zxvf linux-capt-drv-v271-uken.tar.gz
cd linux-capt-drv-v271-uken/64-bit_Driver/Debian
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_3.21-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-capt_2.71-1_amd64.deb

Now we assume you have only one usb printer; and that is the LBP2900;

STEP TWO

sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p LBP2900 -P /usr/share/cups/model/CNCUPSLBP2900CAPTK.ppd -v ccp://localhost:59787 -E

STEP THREE

sudo /usr/sbin/ccpdadmin -p LBP2900 -o /dev/usb/lp0

STEP FOUR

sudo /etc/init.d/ccpd start

then you should be able to open LibreOffice or some programme and see if you can print

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