Canon-LBP2900 printer not working on ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

Question

I could not get cannon lbp printer to work on ubuntu (14.04) after trying everything possible on the internet.

Packages intsalled - cndrvcups-capt_2.60-1_i386.deb and cndrvcups-common_2.60-1_i386.deb

The Printer adds job the queue and fails to print silently.

Here is the cups error log -

ipt@ipt-G41D3C:~$ tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log
E [12/May/2014:11:33:22 +0000] [Client 19] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Print-Job (ipp://localhost/printers/Generic-text-only) from localhost
E [12/May/2014:12:01:30 +0000] **Canon-LBP2900**: File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt" not available: No such file or directory
E [12/May/2014:12:01:30 +0000] Canon-LBP2900: File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt" not available: No such file or directory
E [12/May/2014:12:01:30 +0000] Canon-LBP2900: File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocapt" not available: No such file or directory
E [12/May/2014:13:59:53 +0000] [Job 13] Unable to send data to printer.
E [12/May/2014:14:04:53 +0000] [Job 13] Stopping unresponsive job.
E [12/May/2014:14:06:37 +0000] [Job 14] Unable to send data to printer.

As you can see in the snapshot printer is not able to process the print jobs.

Answer 1

I finally got my LBP 2900 printer to work on ubuntu 14.04, 64-bit. I followed the instructions posted here: Can't get my Canon LBP printer to run under Ubuntu 14.04.

There seems to be some fault with CAPT. So to get the printer to work I had to use the commands given here:" Making Canon LBP6000 printer work under Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit I used the kill commands (as given in update 2 of the link above) to stop capt and restart it.

also captstatusui command is handy while printing to check for any errors: sudo captstatusui -P LBP2900

Answer 2

Download the latest driver from this link and install the debs files under 32-bit_Driver/Debian using

first install cndrvcups-common-x.xx-x.i386, then install cndrvcups-capt-x.xx-x.i386

you will also see detailed document under folder Doc/guide-capt-2.7xUK, open the index.html