Based on few youtube vids and reddit posts i installed the canon CAPT drivers for my printer and executed the commands in termunal and got my printer to show up in the printer setting
When i try to print a test page the status of the printer says processing data and sending data to priner but the printer doesn't print anything i am not the usual whirring noises at all
P.S. printer works on windows pc
Best Answer
so to install the driver for the LBP2900
get the driver from here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100459601.html and you will be downloading linux-capt-drv-v271-uken.tar.gz ..it was updated 15th May 2017 so very up-to-date so please click to SAVE when you download and it should end up in your Downloads folder
open a terminal and paste these commands carefully one by one; and hit the ENTER key after each paste
cd Downloads
Restart CUPS with
sudo service cups restart
register printer with
Register the printer in the ccpd daemon setup file.
Start ccpd daemon.
At that point, you should be able to print; please keep in touch and let us know how it goes ...