Some days ago I bought a Canon Pixma MP540 printer/scanner. I had some serious problems getting it to work om my AMD Quad core machine, but after some searching on various sites I found the solution for both the printer and the scanner setup.

May 20, 2009 Hello to All.I am 'LGP' and I am new to Linux, I installed the Ubuntu 8. Download Free John Frusciante Curtains Rarity. 10 but cannot install Canon PIXMA MP130 InkJet Printer. Jan 11, 2014 This printer has a great and easy install method for Ubuntu. In the install because you had a previous pixma printer. The Ubuntu Forums.

To save people my search I will post it here. First: the printer.Download the drivers from the Canon website.

I used the European site: Enter the above link and select option 11 (it says 11. Debian Linux Printer & Scanner Drivers (3.0)) Download the driver to a new directory and un-tar them. You'll find 4 relevant.deb packages. For now, we'll just look at the printer packages. On the Ubuntu forums, I found a post by feodo who explained the steps with an i386 machine. Hi, My printer works, when I do next steps. 1.Go to Canon-pages and download new Debian Linux-drivers.

Install them. Go to Application/Add and remove aplications. There are two 'printing'-services. Install both. Go back to 'Addminstration/Printing'. Remove 'MP540'-driver. Install new printer and choose first one 'USB.'

Choose 'Canon' and driver 'MP540 ver-3.00'. I hope this will work for most of you. On the same forums, I found a post by Industrial, who explained what to do when you have an amd64 machine (like I do). Code: sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture cnijfilter-mp540series_3.00-1_i386.debThen I followed the rest of feodo's steps. Hope this helps! After I installed the printer packages, I did install the scangear packages as well, but so far I haven't found any use for them. If anyone can hint me about their purpose, I'd be very grateful.

Second: The scanner This is somewhat more complicated (to be honest, I am a total newbie and I managed, so it should be manageable:P). I found the solution on The Canon Pixma Blog: This will get your scanner to work with Xsane. Follow the steps as closely as possible and you WILL get your scanner working. I hope this post will be of use to some of you.

Sorry to revive this thread. I've managed to get the 2 drivers installed from the ppa for raring.

I've also got printing working fine even via network. However, I can get the scanning function to work. Scangearmp installs fine but it comes up saying it cannot find a scanner both via usb and network. Adobe Indesign Cs6 Free Download Rapidshare File on this page.

Is there some file I can edit so that I can tell scangearmp where to look for the scanner? Xsane doesn't find it either. BTW, if i type 'scanimage -L' i get a response to say there is a scanner available. – Jun 8 '13 at 4:22. PPA I found the solution! Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk sudo apt-get update for older releases use ppa:michael-gruz/canon.

My CanonMP610 printer works perfectly under 12.04 gnome classic, but only @ 600 dpi. I want to print photos.

The above method worked for me (although I had to replace pangolin by oneiric in the PPA address), I can install the printer, select the printer in the print menu (of eg Firefox, Openoffice, whatever.), choose between different resolutions, up to more than 2000; the software says it's printing, notification bubbles tell me the print job started and ended, but, guess what. The printer stays dead.!

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I answered this on SO question but here's that answer, reprinted. For 14.04 through 16.04 do the following: • Download the drivers from. • Extract the file archive to a directory. From that directory: cd ~/Downloads tar -xf Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_*.tar.* sudo dpkg -i Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_*/*/Debian/*_$(dpkg --print-architecture).deb sudo apt-get install -f • It shouldn't be necessary to reboot, but if the next step fails, reboot and try again. • Run 'Add printer'. That should just show up automatically when you click the 'Add' button.

Give it a few seconds and the printer chirps then just magically shows up. EDIT 2/27/16 (16.04beta) Updated the link to the 3.10 driver (they updated their website). Everything just worked using above, didn't need to reboot. EDIT 9/8/16: The current driver version is now 3.20. Make installation commands agnostic to both the driver version and the system architecture.

For many (but not all) Canon printers and scanners we can download a proprietary Linux driver from. If a driver was not yet listed in the Canon web search tool linked above we may still find links to the appropriate driver downlaods from the page. Download the Debian package archives to install the proprietary printer drivers with the Ubuntu Software Center by a double click on them. The proprietary scanner application scangearmp will not install with SANE and hence can not be used with applications based on SANE.

After installation is it run from the terminal: scangearmp Note that drivers available there support a series of printers but not a subset of of this series. This is usually indicated by the product numbering (e.g. For a Pixma IP 2820 you will download the driver for the IP2800 series, for a PIXMA MX457 you will need the driver for the MX450 series, etc.) Older drivers may also be available from ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk. Some Canon printers are also supported by the drivers. Borderless or high resolution photo-printing may not be supported. You may note that these drivers allow printing but they usually will not fully support all printer features. This has been like that for all Canon printers for reasons only Canon knows of.

In case we need a driver that fully supports all printer features there is a commercially available printer driver which actually works great but you may not want to support their rather weird and expensive licencing plan (starting from $34 for one computer and two printers with free updates for 6 months only). You could try this from. A third-party ppa contains the driver and scangear for commonly used Canon printers, available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and its derivatives, such as Linux Mint 17. Below devices are supported: • bjf9000, bjf900, bjs300, bjs500, bjs700 series • e500, e510, e600, e610 series • i250, i255, i550, i560, i850, i860, i950, i990 series • ip100, ip1800, ip1900, ip2200, ip2500, ip2600, ip2700, ip3000, ip3300, ip3500, ip3600, ip4000, ip4200, ip4300, ip4500, ip4600, ip4700, ip4800, ip4900, ip5000, ip5200, ip6600, ip7200, ip7500, ip8500, ip90 series • ix6500 series • mg2100, mg2200, mg3100, mg3200, mg4100, mg4200, mg5100, mg5200, mg5300, mg5400, mg6100, mg6200, mg6300, mg8100, mg8200 series.

• mp140, mp160, mp190, mp210, mp230, mp240, mp250, mp270, mp280, mp490, mp495, mp500, mp510, mp520, mp540, mp550, mp560, mp600, mp610, mp620, mp630, mp640, mp750, mp780 series. • mx320, mx330, mx340, mx350, mx360, mx370, mx390, mx410, mx420, mx430, mx450, mx510, mx520, mx710, mx720, mx860, mx870, mx880, mx890, mx920 series. • pixmaip1000, pixmaip1500 series. • pixus250, pixus255, pixus550, pixus560, pixus850, pixus860, pixus950, pixus990 series • pixusip3100, pixusip4100, pixusip8600 series Install Canon Drivers / ScanGear in Ubuntu 14.04: • To get started, press Ctrl+ Alt+ T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, the command below and hit enter to run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inameiname/stable Type in your user password when it asks and hit Enter to continue. This will add the PPA repository into your system.

• After that, open Synaptic Package Manager from the Unity Dash. If you don’t find it, search for and install it from Ubuntu Software Center. Do: • Click the Reload button to refresh your system cache. • To install a printer driver: In Quick filter box, type in cnijfilter. • To install a ScanGear: In Quick filter box, type in scangearmp. • Select a package in the result list that matches your device.

• Right-click on the package and select “Mark for Installation” • Finally click on the “Apply” button to install the driver. Once the printer and scanner drivers are installed, connect your device to the computer and start Printers utility test if it works. And launch the Simple Scan utility and select your scanner from app menu Documents ->Preferences ->Scan Source to test if the scanner works.