Canon Pixma MG6150 Install pstocanonij file

[Helge Blischke]

Roy Read wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am not a 'printer person' being very happy to just run off the
> occasional
> invoice and letter on a printer that just works.  At the moment I have a
> problem which can probably be solved by guesswork but I would prefer to
> get it sorted hopefully quickly so I can get on with other things.
> 
> The problem is a Canon Pixma MG6150 printer which Mac-centric associates
> insist I use.
> 
> Canon have Released a driver for this machine which I have downloaded.  I
> have installed the PPD file OK but the printer does not work as I get the
> error
> message that file pstocanonij is missing.  It does exist as part of the
> download package but on further reading of the instructions it has to be
> installed using make.
> 
> My problem is where to put this pstocanonij file.  I am running Kubuntu
> 10.04
> LTS.  The installation instructions indicate it should go in /libs which
> is a bit vague as investigation shows that there are a number of /libs in
> the file
> system which may or may not be to do with printing, including one in CUPS.
>  I have read the PPD file which has the line
> 
> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstocanonij"
> 
> which has confused me further as I would have expected the path to be
> /libs/.... but then I am not a printer person.  I also take it that the *
> at the start of every line in the PPD file does not make that line a
> comment?
> 
> Could some kind person suggest where this file should be installed?
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> Roy

I guess the destination directory should be 
/usr/lib/cups/filter/

Verify that the other CUPS filters are in that directory (such as pdftops, 
pstops, etc.). If yes, move your pstocanonij there.

If not, do a 
locate pstops
or similar to determine the destination directory and move your filter 
there.

Helge