I have a Canon MG6450 with Wi-Fi enabled and an up-to-date Arch Linux installation with cnijfilter-mg4200 3.80-1 installed . I can *see* the printer in print dialogues (sometimes it takes a second to show up, presumably because it's being auto-discovered), I can select it, and I get no error message when clicking OK. However, the printer is completely oblivious to all this, it seems. I've also tried connecting via USB. Afterwards the printer was *not* auto-detected by the print dialogue, but it *was* detected by system-config-printer, and I was able to configure and print with no problems. But it would be very nice to be able to print wirelessly. --- It appears some fatal printing errors show up neither in the print dialogue nor in system-config-printer. Both of them simply report printer state as "Idle - Rendering completed". However, after going to the CUPS web interface and clicking the printer I finally got a hint - after each print job is the following message: > "The PPD version (5.2.11) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.12. Please run `/usr/bin/cups-genppdupdate' as administrator." OK then: $ sudo /usr/bin/cups-genppdupdate /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-PIXMA-MG6450.ppd: no valid candidate for replacement. Skipping /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-PIXMA-MG6450.ppd: please upgrade this PPD manually Unable to retrieve PPD file for /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-PIXMA-MG6450.ppd! Failed to update any PPD files Now I'm seeing if anywhere has a compatible PPD. Canon's IJ Printer Driver Ver. 4.00 for Linux has PPD files for MG6400 and MG6500. I tried the MG6400 one, cleaned out the printer queue, and tried printing a test page. Now the CUPS web interface has no errors, but system-config-printer reports: > File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij" not available: No such file or directory Looks like that file is available from cnijfilter-common , which currently can't be built . After following the instructions by c.gerhorst I have installed the package, but now the printer dialogue is complaining that /usr/lib/cups/filter/cmdtocanonij is missing. --- There *is* a /usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtocanon. I've tried replacing cmdtocanonij with commandtocanon in /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-PIXMA-MG6450.ppd and running sudo systemctl daemon-reload and sudo systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd.service. Now I get no error message anywhere, but the print jobs just seem to disappear entirely. The printer shows no sign of receiving them, and the CUPS web interface shows any new jobs as first "processing", then "completed", without any indication that something is black-holing everything.

I have been trying to install **Canon laser printer LBP2900B** in Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 32bit. Whenever I give a print order monitor will say " printing" ! After 2 seconds it will say," printing cancelled " ! When i check the printer status( captstatusui -P LBP2900),the message i am getting is: Communication error: - is the printer turned on ? - is the cable correctly connected ? I reconnected the cable,still the same error message !I am not getting " **Ready to print** " message after running the command **captstatusui -P LBP2900** [ And in the terminal it says: "**(captstatusui:8733): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 10 was not found when attempting to remove it** " I tried many versions of CAPT driver from canon site including **latest 2.7** ! The main link i referred is: http://www.e-lokam.com/internetsoftware/cannon-lbp-2900b-printer-installation-in-mint-16/ Another link itried : https://radu.cotescu.com/how-to-install-canon-lbp-printers-in-ubuntu/

I have installed the scangearmp2 tool to use my Canon Pixma TS5150 scanner and I managed to get it working. But unlike some screenshot I've seen it only provides a very crude interface. It can only scan the entire page in 300 dpi, no preview and no other options. From xsane I do get a preview but any attempt to select an area to scan is ignored. Resolution is listed only up to 300 dpi and it only uses 300 dpi as far as I can tell. Is this not (yet) supported for this scanner or am I doing something wrong? I am running Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14.04). By mistake I installed the 32-bit OS but I assume this doesn't matter.

I have taken home from the office a Canon MF443dw multifunction printer, but I have some hard time to get the scanner working. I have tried to get it working with both sane.d and Gnome Document Scanner, but without any success. I have tried to follow this guide SuperUser - How to use to a Canon Pixma scanner in GNU/Linux using sane, and over a local network, e.g. Wi-Fi? It's connected to the same network as the computer is. I can see in Wireshark that sane.d is trying to find a scanner both on subnet broadcast, global broadcast, and on the scanners IP address i provided in **pixma.conf** but without any respons from the scanner. Just to clearify, the scanners IP is 192.168.1.174. Is MF443dw not a pixma scanner? Do i use wrong protocol (bjnp://)? Do I need to enable something on the scanner? Or is there other tricks to get it working?

I hate printers. I have terrible luck with them. I just had a Brother HL-3180cdw die on me (right after the warranty expired, of course) in a way that will cost more to fix than the printer cost. That had (proprietary) drivers which worked fine with Fedora — not a great experience, but, eh. I know Canon is _not_ very Linux friendly, but I'm nonetheless tempted by their three-year warranty. Specifically, I'm looking at the [MF743Cdw](https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/printers/color-laser/color-imageclass-mf743cdw) . Does anyone have experience using this under Linux _without_ installing drivers? That is, using network printing and standard Postcript or PCL or whatever? What about scanning? Any chance of that working without a driver? (If not, can that be at least controlled directly via the panel on the printer and _sent_ to a Linux-based network share? The Brother printer _seemed_ like it would be able to do this but it didn't actually work.) I am using Fedora Workstation (although I don't think that should matter much in this case). I found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/146031/canon-printer-setup-with-no-driver-opensuse , but note that that's talking about a printer in the "PIXMA" line — I expect laser printers to be more likely to work with Postscript. Does anyone have experience with this printer in this situation?

I've got a Canon D550 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS running XFCE 4.14. Whenever I try to print something, it says that the printer status is "Paused; Rejecting Jobs" I've installed the printer drivers, and the CUPS service is started. The strange thing is that I can't print on Windows either (I have it dual-booted). In Windows, it says "Driver unavailable" even though the driver is installed; if any of that is relevant. I don't really care if it works in Windows, I'm more concerned about it working in Linux. Canon's "Knowledge Base" is completely useless, and when I called to talk to a person, I was told that the product was only supported through the knowledge base. Nothing in the manual either. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

My AIO Printer/Scanner is Canon E400 but I can't find my scanner as a normal user, only with sudo & scan is also work with sudo

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~ cincinmasukmangkok@orangepizero
 scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

~ cincinmasukmangkok@orangepizero
 test.png

` I also added this to /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules but it still doesn't work

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SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTRS{idProduct}=="177a", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

`

I have a Canon scanner and Iḿ trying to install it on a QubesOS machine. In one qube (virtual machine) I have a fresh Debian 10 install, in the other a fresh Fedora 32 install. The printer drivers are available from Canons webpage and have a bash install script that is available for multiple distros. So I install it in both qubes, and that all works fine. After that printing works for both qubes without problems. Then I also install gscan2pdf in both qubes. In Fedora, when I launch gscan2pdf I can easily select my Canon scanner and the source for the pages (flatbed or document feeder). However in Debian gescan2pdf does not recognize the scanner. Running sudo sane-find-scanner in both Fedora and Debian results in the same message: found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x27fe [MF642C/643C/644C]) at libusb:001:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage However in Debian sudo scanimage -L gives me: No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). While runningsudo scanimage -L in Fedora gives me: device `pixma:04A927FE_349f7ba38c13' is a CANON Canon i-SENSYS MF640 Series multi-function peripheral It seems Fedora by default is able to recognize the scanner while Debian is not. Sane-pixma is installed on Debian however and is supposed to recognise it. Anyone has any idea how I could troubleshoot this further and find the cause?

my print **Canon MAXIFY MB5150** I have been downloading **scangearmp2** from the canon site I installated it with, cd ~/scangearmp2-3.40-1-deb/packages sudo apt install scangearmp2_3.40-1_amd64.deb and cd ~/scangearmp2-3.40-1-deb sudo ./install.sh and it is recognize, My question is, how can to have the graphical user interface GUI-tool from **scangearmp2** as here to show,

I have recently changed from Windows and love using Linux. Lots of challenges but a great system. I have Mint 19.3 running 64 bit. My printer/scanner is a Canon TS 3120, connected by usb to my computer. It prints fine but does not see the scanner. I am trying to use simple scan but it does not work. Any help appreciated.

I am a 75 great grandmother that just installed Linux Mint in her old lap top. I refused to continue with the almost daily up`dates and crashes. Everything is going well except I cannot get my Canon TS 6020 printer to print colors correctly. I cannot find the printer window to set up the correct group: CMYK I might need to find calibration and profiling software. Thank you for all the help and tips you can provide. Have a wonderful day with many blessings.

I have created this question in order to provide an answer. The idea is that having this question on a **Pixma** printer I have found that many people that have the proper drivers (different depending on the model of printer-scanner, but called 'scangearmp') for such an integrated scanner are trying to **use it with Simple Scan or Xsane without success**. How to use a such scanner?

A new Canon PIXMA TS6250 has wifi interface to setup and apps to set it up via wifi network but none of them are for Linux. In the process of first seting up, the printer creates its own access point, and while connecting to it gives you an address and is then responding to ping at 192.168.114.1 and obviously runs a webserver or some app on https://192.168.114.1/ Since there is no app for linux, is there a way to set it up anyway without using Mac or Windows? It probably needs to be setup to connect to a local router and then it most probably should work as a network printer. I just can't figure out how to configure it for wifi.

On Debian 9.8 I use a Canon PIXMA MG2555 printer. 1) A global driver for PIXMA MG2500 series printers has been installed automatically by GNOME. It seems that no more accurate driver exists, and I was not invited to do any additional settings. However, this driver doesn't detect that my printer can work both sides of paper, and the colors printed are wrong. Blue for example, is very dark (nearly black) when it shall be lively. Openoffice and Libreoffice can print titles and subtitles with wrong colors, but images will look nearly ok, even if not absolutely good. Before Debian, I was on Windows 7 and the Windows 7 drivers worked correctly. 2) Are you aware that such problems can happen? 3) Is there thing that could be wrong in other parts of my operation system configuration ?

I have one issue and that is, I cannot set our plotter to work with cups server. I have Canon imagePROGRAPH iPF755 Plotter machine and I have set CentOS 7.6 to be a print server for all our printers. I wanted to set this plotter on CentOS as well. Trying to set this network plotter, I found out that there are no native canon drivers for that, so I went to see if there are possibilities for extracting ppd file from OSX .pkg Unfortunately ppd file has some directives which are different from linux system, so I cannot simply import it to cups as paths are different, and there are some drivers/modules/filters which are not compatible... Is there any possibility to convert or modify this ppd file to work with CentOS? Whole PPD file can be found in pastebin link: iPF755 - ppd Or are there any other drivers that I could use, that are "compatible" with Canon imagePROGRAPH iPF755?

The Cannon Pixma MG2450 printer has an integrated scanner that should work with a tool like Simple Scan (or Xsane, Skanlite). I have the proper drivers (provided by Canon: scangearmp-common and scangearmp-mg2400series) and I was under the impression that with them the scanner worked in the past, but now Iţm not so sure... after trying and failing to make it work... As seen [here](http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-CANON) , the Cannon Pixma 2400 series look supported. I cannot access the scan in Linux: I have tried to access it in Ubuntu and other *ubuntu-based systems like Linux Mint 17.2 KDE and elementary OS Freya. The scanner cannot be faulty, because **it works in Windows** (I have multiple boot). How could I investigate this farther? **Can I be wrong that this scanner is supported and that it worked in the past?** The printer works. --- But is this scanner really supported ? --- --- etc/sane.d/dll.d contains only these two files: Also: sudo sane-find-scanner [sudo] password for cip: # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. # No USB scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel driver for your USB host controller and have setup # the USB system correctly. See man sane-usb for details. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. Trying to start skanlite tool in terminal, I get: skanlite Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address. IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon etc/sane.d/ddl.conf contains some lines starting with cannon, one pixma, none is commented out. --- Edit after a first answer : The situation is a bit confusing so I try to follow the most simple part, the one about installing the scanner drivers first: > if you install first the scanner, when you turn on the machine, after > installing the driver, mint installs the printer. Again you have to go > to Menu-Administration-Printers and eliminate the printer mint > installed for you. Then you can install the canon printer driver, this > time without interruptions Using the debian packages instead of the deb files I get indeed a second entry in the printers list but there is no way I can make it disappear forever: any time I re-connect the printer, a second one is added. Removing it manually I have only the one installed by me but only until I reconnect the printer. Even so, the scanner doesn't work. Anyway, the printer is not added automatically unless the Canon drives are installed!

I am having a lot of problems properly installing my brand new Canon iP7250 under Linux (Debian Sid, pretty up-to-date). I actually managed to install it with standard CUPS drivers and it prints very well, BUT I found no way to activate the "Borderless" feature, so I get ample margins around my photos. I also tried using Canon drivers, but: - Standard binaries won't install because of outdated dependencies (libpng12 was replaced by libpng14 and libtiff4 by libtiff5) - Resorting to recompilation (both Canon bundle and sources from [github](https://github.com/endlessm/cnijfilter-common)) results in drivers that have a lot of control, including "Borderless", but have a print quality *much* worse than the other drivers. - YES, I tried maximizing "print quality" and "DPI". - When I install the printer I see two identical entries in "Discovered Network Printers", both stating: "Canon iP7200 series (Canon iP7200 series)"; chosing either doesn't seem to change anything. - In next step I see likewise two identical lines: "Canon iP7200 series Ver.3.90 (en, cs, da, de, es, fi, fr, el, hu, it, nl, no, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, ko, zh, zh_TW, th, id, ja)" pointing respectively to "canonip7200.ppd" and "lsb/usr/canonip7200.ppd"; I have not been able to find those files, the only "canonip7200.ppd" I found is under "/usr/share/ppd/".

I'm using Arch inside VMware, and trying to connect to a Canon P-208 scanner. I know this scanner to be supported, it has an entry in /etc/sane.d/canon_dr.conf, but it shows up as: $ scanimage -L device `v41:/dev/video0' is a Noname VMware Virtual USB Video Device virtual device and then doesn't work: $ scanimage --device "v41:/dev/video0" --format=png > test.png scanimage: open of device v41:/dev/video0 failed: Invalid argument $ scanimage --test scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument Is there some way I can tell SANE to treat v41:/dev/video0 as a P-208?

The drivers for this printer are provided as source, deb and rpm packages on the Canon website . I have already tested the deb files and they work on the same machine. Because I knew about them, I was able to identify them in AUR using Pamac. They are: cnijfilter-common-mg2400 - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cnijfilter-common-mg2400 and cnijfilter-mg2400series - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cnijfilter-mg2400series I get this error when trying to install with pamac or yaourt: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) cnijfilter-common-mg2400: /usr/lib64 exists in filesystem Also: pacman -Qo /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64 is owned by filesystem 2015.09-1 /usr/lib64 is a link to /usr/lib, a 3.2 GB directory containing many program folders. What should I do? --- Using deb2targz I have been able to extract from the deb files some folders. But what should I do with them? --- UPDATE --- AUR package maintainer has [updated the mg2400 AUR packages](https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=27569.msg231192#msg231192) . See comments by Rob and Oberon under that topic on the reasons why the previous packages didn't work. --- But for whatever reason the printer doesn't work. In Ubuntu, the drivers once installed, the printer was already present in the list of printers. Here it is not, and after adding it would not print. Although the drivers seem to me exactly the same two packages that were enough to make the printer work in ubuntu-based systems, they are not enough in Manjaro. Some other package is needed or most probably some application needs to be started for the printer to work, although I started cups and added to startup with sudo systemctl start org.cups.cupsd sudo systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd The error is when selecting "Print self-test page." Selecting "Print test page" sends the job to printer with no result, just like when trying to print any file. I also checked and can confirm that the device URI shows the same line as in Linux Mint (same computer, same printer). Only the driver has a slightly different description - in Manjaro: Canon MG2400 series Ver.4.00, in Mint: Canon MG2400 series - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.10-pre2.

So i have linux mint 18.1 installed and i have a Canon MF 4370dn printer/scanner, i got the printer side working using the drivers from Canon's site, but the scanner side is still not working. scanimage -L recognizes the scanner: device `pixma:04A926EC_SJF890301025D' is a CANON Canon imageCLASS MF4360 multi-function peripheral scanimage -V: scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.25git; backend version 1.0.25 scanimage -T fails: $ sudo scanimage -T scanimage: scanning image of size 640x877 pixels at 24 bits/pixel scanimage: acquiring RGB frame, 8 bits/sample scanimage: reading one scanline, 1920 bytes... FAIL Error: Error during device I/O