Can't get Canon Pixma MP500 to work

[rdkilpat]

Hope someone may be able to help.  Since updating, my previously installed Canon Pixma MP500 printer just will not accept a printing job.  It appears to not see a job request period.  I'm an older person who first started computing with Windows 3x.  After trying at least a dozen other Linux distributions, I came upon PCLOS and was blown away by how solid it was.  Everything worked except it took me more than a week to get my printer installed.  I finally found (thru internet postings) 3 drivers from an Asian site and got it installed.   Then having finally found computer Nirvana, I remastered the "perfect PCLOS" and wrote it to a DVD.

After updating today the printer quit.  I have tried reinstalling those drivers to no avail.  I have tried to replace libpaper 1 2011 with a downloaded file named libpaper-1.1.8-9pclos2007.src.rpm: but, no matter what I do to install it Konsole always says there is no such file.   Can't understand that because I have the file (about 180 KBs) in both my desktop and download directories and have tried to install from both of these. Nothing else I've tried after reading several threads here has worked either.  To make bad things worse, my perfect copy of PCLos (which I used before) no longer installs.  It goes thru the whole installation process but then invariably hangs up when it attempts to install grub.  I tried 4 times and gave up.

I hope someone here can help me get the printer working.  Is replacing libpaper1 2011 with the 2007 version even a viable option?  Is there a fix I just haven't found here yet (several posts I found on these threads suggested there was), or is there a fix coming?  I also found that deleting libpaper1 uninstalls AbiWord as well.  Reinstalling Abiword entails reinstalling libpaper1 2011.

I'll post this question in a remastering thread, but wonder if anyone knows why grub may be hanging up where it did not before.

Thank you very much.

[Texstar]

The latest libpaper package has already been fixed for the printer. You do not need the old libpaper package and the one you downloaded is a source rpm not a binary package.

[rdkilpat]

The latest libpaper package has already been fixed for the printer. You do not need the old libpaper package and the one you downloaded is a source rpm not a binary package.

Thanks much Texstar.   I thought a recent post made by Meemaw and a post you made indicated it had been fixed, but; when I updated this morning, it didn't work for me.  I must have done something wrong.  I can't get my remastered backup DVD working, but will try reinstalling from scratch and updating. 

Sorry to have bothered you.

[menotu]

Hi rdkilpat

Different printer model but I've noticed with my Pixma ip4500 that when installing PCLinuxOS I don't bother with the printer side of things, and then when I have updated I then turn my printer on and it's always picked up automatically - correct model number - and the installation goes on from their.  I never have to open the Control Centre or manually run printerdrake.

[rdkilpat]

Hi rdkilpat

Different printer model but I've noticed with my Pixma ip4500 that when installing PCLinuxOS I don't bother with the printer side of things, and then when I have updated I then turn my printer on and it's always picked up automatically - correct model number - and the installation goes on from their.  I never have to open the Control Centre or manually run printerdrake.

Thank you menotu.  Did just that yesterday.  I installed a fresh 2010 KDE PCLOS, let it update, and later turned on the printer.  Printerdrake picked it up and installed it (as it normally did before).  I wish that had worked, but it did not.  As before, the printer just sits idle when given a job.  Also, thanks to a tip from the remastering board, I got my remastered copy of PCLOS installed.  The printer still works great on it. There just must still be something included in the most recent update which disables this particular printer model at least.

My printer also works with Windows 7 and Mint gnome which I triple boot with PCLOS.  In almost every respect other than the printer thing, I much prefer PCLOS to Windows and Mint.  So for now I'll use my remastered copy of it and won't update it for a while.  

Thanks again.