Canon iP1500 Ubuntu Driver
The iP1500 is a cheap, reliable little printer, but Canon didn’t bother with Linux drivers until recently. They now publish a driver for this printer, but it is a bit old and compatible with RHEL 3 and Suse 9.1, so in rpm format. Even after converting the packages with alien, there is still some fiddling required, so I’ve made a package that depends on the three Canon packages and does the necessary tweaks after. You can get it here. I’ve included all three Canon packages and mine in the compressed archive. Just extract it to a new folder and install all the packages. Either click on them in your file manager to install with your packaging tool, in which case install them in the order: bjfilter-common, bjfilter-pxmaip1500, bjfilter-pcmaip1500-lprng, canon-ip1500; or on the command line, cd to the folder and type dpkg -i *.deb (if you are using 64bit, you will need dpkg -i –force-architecture *.deb). Then plug in your printer. You will then need to add it manually via the printer configuration tool. Be sure to select the HiRes driver version.