Comments on How To Install A (Canon) Printer On Debian And Debian-Like Systems

Same as the Pixma ip1700. I went to various world regions and still no linux drivers

If you are stuck with a Canon printer there are drivers available at Turboprint.de. They are not free but you can try a crippled version to se if it will work wiyh your printer. I used it to run a Canon Pixma successfuly but finally got smart and bought HP.

The i386 driver will install on a x86 install, you just need to use sudo dpkg -i --forcearchitecture canon~.rpm on each driver. I have done both my laptop and HTPC which are running 64 bit kernels, and both will print and scan from my Canon MP560 albeit crudely on the printing in some ways. It's not like as if it's a major loss to Canon if they don't cater to the most unused OS on the desktop out there is it?

Canon do supply drivers for Linux, but you have to go to the European or Asian Canon support to get them. The supplied drivers are 32bit only and come packaged with an install script that must be run as a superuser. Both deb and rpm versions are available. My Pixma MP640 works very well under Debian, Mint and Ubuntu. On a 64bit system you need to edit the install script to --force-archtecture and you must also have ia32-libs installed.

I have had an issue with 64bit natty in that the install script fails due to a dependency issue. The debs need repackaging. If you do a minimal maverick install, install the driver then do a dist-upgrade - then the driver works as it should. 

 My multifunction prints and scans across my home network. Not as easy as using HPLIP, but doable.

This is the latest location for the drivers on the australian site:

http://support-au.canon.com.au/P/search?model=imageRUNNER+iR+C3080i&menu=download&filter=0&tagname=g_os&g_os=Linux

Well stated. You could have elaborated on how selecting a region affects the availability of drivers. Selecting "North America" seems to provide the smallest number of choices, while "Australia" seems to have to most. Don't know why there should be that difference, but as long as I can find an appropriate driver, I don't care where I have to go to get it. 

Nice article, very informative and useable.

A point of caution though. Your procedure gives the idea that the linux drivers are there so all you have to do is select the OS (operating system). In fact, canon's linux support is very inconsistent. For  example, there is no Linux driver at all for the Canon Pixma iP2702 on the Canon site if you select North America at Canon's home page. Linux does not show up in the OS selection drop down list at all. But there are several versions of OSX and practically every version of Windows.

 I checked on this particular printer because I have an iP2700 that I managed to get it to work on my Ubuntu 10.04LTS 32 bit install only to discover that I cannot use it on my upgraded 64bit box - still running Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Tried a few hacks and work-arounds, none of which worked.

An acquaintance of mine also running Ubuntu 10.04LTS 32 bit got a Canon Pixma 1200. Many hours and several hacks and workarounds later I still can't print a word on this printer. Again, no Linux support.

Canon makes nice printers, but unfortunately,  the company is not very nice to Linux users.

Great information thank you I have been searching everywhere for this 

I downloaded the drivers for my company's Canon IRC3080i from Canon, and used these instructions to install them on Linux Mint 13...worked!

 Without the Canon drivers, sending anything to the printer just gave hundreds of pages of garbage from the printer.

 Thanks for these instructions!

Worked great here on Ubuntu 10.10 x64 with an MF-5950. Thanks!

Hi there,

After doing every step mentioned here, thank you very much for provide them, I still found problems because the authentication user code.

When I print from Windows, the driver rise up a windows asking me the user code  and password allowing to print over the device. This is missed in Linux. What is going wrong here?

Maybe I missed some basic steps ?

Is there  any help available ?

Thank you

Worked great here on Debian wheezy x64 with an MG3255. Thanks!

Nope doesn't work. Don't know what's wrong but none of my printers show up when I look for them. Even the HP printers and I did download and install the ip files.

On Debian Wheezy amd64 version, you need to enable multiarch. To enable , be root and invoke

dpkg --add-architecture i386

then, type

apt-get update

apt-get install ia32-libs-i386

Those might work for you(also README file of the driver).

Thanks :-)

Excellent Instructions. I am on debian for less than a month (not regular) and I have done the job with Canon mf4820d.. Thanks a Lot.

For the life of me, I can't get signed on to the cups web site localhost631 ; when I click on the Administration tab, it asks for a username/password which I can't furnish. I tried my username/password for my linux install which didn't work and see no place on this web site to sign up for an account.

Great Information.

Thank you for your support and sharing this informative article.

pixma G3100 cannot find that ufr2 file

I am getting this error:

Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree       Reading state information... DoneNote, selecting 'foomatic-db-compressed-ppds' for glob 'foomatic-db*'Note, selecting 'foomatic-db-hpijs' for glob 'foomatic-db*'Note, selecting 'foomatic-db-engine' for glob 'foomatic-db*'Note, selecting 'foomatic-db' for glob 'foomatic-db*'Note, selecting 'foomatic-db-gutenprint' for glob 'foomatic-db*'foomatic-db-compressed-ppds is already the newest version (20180306-1).cups is already the newest version (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.5).cups-client is already the newest version (2.2.7-1ubuntu2.5).Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies: foomatic-db-compressed-ppds : Conflicts: foomatic-db                               Breaks: foomatic-db                               Breaks: foomatic-db:i386                               Conflicts: foomatic-db:i386E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thank you for the guidance.

Great information. It is very commercial and professional industry of canon. It is very good and informative/ helpful blogs.Canon do supply drivers for Linux, but you have to go to the European or Asian Canon support to get them. The supplied drivers are 32bit only and come packaged with an install script that must be run as a superuser. Both deb and rpm versions are available. My Pixma MP640 works very well under Debian, Mint and Ubuntu. It's professional articles. I will share in this post. Thank you.

Thank you