Summary

There are drivers available from Canon New Zealand. They seem to be designed for Red Hat, and have some odd dependencies. First you need the drivers which you can get from here:

http://canon.co.nz/products/printers/colour_bj_printers/i250_drivers.html

The ones you need are bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm and bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm

The dependencies needed are libglade.so.0 and libpng.so.2 . You will need to see whether such files exist in /usr/lib and if they do not, you will have to create symlinks to other suitable library files. In PCLinuxOS I typed the following three lines into a terminal as root. Yours may be different:

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libglade-2.0.so.0 libglade.so.0
ln -s libpng.so.3 libpng.so.2

Then I installed the drivers using "nodeps".

cd /where I downloaded drivers
rpm -i --nodeps bjfilteri250-2.3-0.i386.rpm
rpm -i --nodeps bjfiltercups-2.3-0.i386.rpm

Finally, in order to fix the package database, I had to remove the entries from it:

rpm -e --justdb bjfilteri250
rpm -e --justdb bjfiltercups

Once I did this and ran the PCLinuxOS Control Centre and Printer setup applet, the printer was autodetected and worked perfectly.

After many attempts I was able to use the Canon i250 on my 64-bit SuSE 10.0 home networked machine. I resolved the dependancies:

cd /usr/lib64
ln -s libglade-2.0.so.0 libglade.so.0
ln -s libpng.so.3 libpng.so.2

and installed the rpms. I also copied this executable file 'pstocanonbj' from
/usr/lib/cups/filter
to
/usr/lib64/cups/filter

All works very well.

I followed Davecs info from http://www.linuxcompatible.org/Canon_i250_c12697.html as described and finally I am able to use my Canon i250 printer with Suse 10.1. Much appreciated, thanks.

Banjo.