Canon Pixma Printer Drivers Ubuntu

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Can't seem to get a printer working with my brand new 64-bit Ubuntu laptop.

I see the printer, and everything looks fine, but then when I try to print a test page, the job enters a 'held' state.

lpq shows all the print jobs as usual.When I go to localhost:631 and check out the printer, I see the following message next to the job:

Of course, it does not show which library is failing to load, because that would be a useful error message.The driver looks like the right one.Here's a cut-and paste of the printer description at the top of the screen:

I think this might be a 32-bit vs. 64-bit issue.I installed the drivers from Canon Asia, as per Install Canon MP560 Ubuntu 15.04. Prior to the dpkg command, I ran

Then I installed the packages, common first, then MP560. There were problems when I ran sudo apt-get update, so I fixed them with a sudo apt-get -f install.

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That seemed to get everything working, but, as mentioned above, it just won't print. Running sudo apt-get update shows no broken dependencies.

Ideas, anyone? I'm soooooooo close to getting this to work that I just can't give up.

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In /var/log/cups/error_log.1, I see a lot of these ..

and then problems like this ..

There is a lot of stuff in that log. Not sure what's really important. The last few lines of the file are

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From the instructions of post #10 of this ubuntu forum thread:

  1. download the driver from canon-asia.com
  2. unpack the archive with archive manager
  3. use the following commands to install:

These are pretty much the same instructions as the one over here.

These are the 32bit drivers. You need to use the --force optionn to install on a 64 bit system. The rest of the aforementioned forum, covers the scanner driver.

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OK, I think I got it.

As Bogdan Willi correctly pointed out---thanks, BTW---my lack of the --force-architecture flag on the dpkg command pushed me into 32 bit / 64 purgatory.

By using the flag, I got an error message that the MP560 driver depends on libtiff4, which, helpfully, is no longer available.

I managed to find an old copy of this package ..

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And I installed it .. Free driver updates from hp.

Et voila! The printer prints. I suspect that the mysterious 'Unable to load library' messages were due to libtiff4. A better error message would have been great.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for helping out. It can be tough to figure out these issues without the exact hardware.

BryanRBryanR

Mostly as above but on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS on my machine I needed the amd-64 version of libtiff4

One note, if you are on a different network it won't find the printer. I work in a VM that is on its own network. I had to run the above on a computer connected to the correct network. Then I copied the lpadmin command that it used to register the printer and ran that on my VM.

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I had followed the steps how to install canon printer Pixma G2000 from this blog. However, I get the errors as follow upon running command in terminal:

The blog web address as follow:https://blog.droidzone.in/…/how-to-install-printers-for-ca…/Does anybody know how to fix this one?Currently, I'm using turboprint but in trial mode. After 30 days, turboprint for linux will expire. Hope to solve this problem. Thanks.

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I don't know. Still a newbie. But I got my canon Pixma mg3051 to work by using USB and installing the Pixma 2900 driver and by changing its name to 3051. Plug the printer in via USB and add printer. If your printer is not on the list like mine I went for the model closest to mine then when the details came on screen just changed name. It worked for me.

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I'm the author of the blog post you referred to.I believe your problem is because you may not have added the apt sources as advised on the first step.

These are the lines you need to add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

Alternately, you may create a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Do an sudo apt update, and now continue with the steps as mentioned on the blog post.

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I got my Pixma 3051 just to work today after alot of Hassel. I plug it in via USB. In the dash select printer, add printer, select the make then it will search for a driver. If it doesn't find one select your driver from the listed. If it's not there select the one closest to it. It will show your printers details now change them to your printer name and run a test page.The closest printer to mine was the Canon Pixma MG2900.

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