If you are running Ubuntu 8.10 Linux and going to connect your Canon Pixma iP1880 printer, then it is not yet plug and play.

Canon provide driver for linux. But they have not yet provided driver for Ubuntu 8.10. The good news is someone has provided us driver for Ubuntu 8.10.

Download 2 files from this links:

http://nko.computers.googlepages.com/cnijfilter-ip1800_2.70-2_i386-hardy...
http://nko.computers.googlepages.com/cnijfilter-common_2.70-2_i386.deb