I found this page: http://techieturmoil.co.uk/category/techie-notes/ But the chap is a bit vague on installing. My comments in red. "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 - clicking on the following files will automatically bring up the packaging tool? If so what do you do then?, 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 - type dpkg -i [full name of file(s)].deb i.e. dpkg -i bjfilter-common.deb ? . Then plug in your printer. You will then need to add it manually via the printer configuration tool.