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I cannot get my canon pixma mg4250 printer to print on Ubuntu 20.04. I have tried the following: I downloaded the canon driver file from the UK website (I am in the UK). This provided a zip file into my download folder. I extracted this and now have two entities in my downloads folder, a folder and a file, named respectively:

  1. cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm
  2. cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm.tar.gz

I then tried installing the driver in the terminal by inputting the following:

$ `sudo apt install cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm.tar.gz`

This returned the error message:

E: Unable to locate package cnijfilter-mg4200series-3.80-1-rpm.tar.gz

I clearly don't really understand what I'm doing and would appreciate a clear explanation of how to install the driver in simple english. Thank you

C.Diamantis
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For Canon Pixma MG4250 and other "old" Canon printers, the package cups-backend-bjnp is needed. First install it:

sudo apt install cups-backend-bjnp

Then your printer will be avaliable in Ubuntu's list of printers. And you may change the color model to KCMY.

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