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Fair warning: I am a complete noob to Linux and Ubuntu.

I have been trying to install the Canon Pixma E400 printer but have not succeeded so far.

I tried:

  • locating the driver through the built-in Printer Settings option, but there wasn't any driver available for my printer (found one for PIXMAE500, installed that but it did not work).
  • The generic driver for pdfs also did not work; my printer didn't take any jobs through that driver.
  • installing the driver from the .exe file that came with the setup disk of the printer, but wine did not recognise that file.
  • Downloaded the binary .deb file but it didn't work either.
  • I downloaded the relevant driver packages (tar.gz) from the web, extracted them, read through the README file in there, but could not figure out its instructions. I then tried to execute the three-step compilation process, having changed to the extracted directory (via CD), suggested here to get an error saying bash: ./configure: No such file or directory.

I could not find any duplicate questions and have tried the usual solutions I found here. I am probably missing some basic detail due to my ignorance about Ubuntu.

Could someone here advise me how to handle this?

Fabby
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wittgenstein
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Download the driver here. http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100588102.html I have e400 too, tested and working on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I didn't check scanner options yet.

emrecnl
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I just downloaded the E400 driver from the support-asia site and loaded three of the four drivers that came from the unzip. The printer now works on Linux Mint Rosa 17.3.

As I am new to linux I don´t know how it did it. I downloaded the file then used GDebi package installer. Used it to unzip and then added the printer. Everything just happened properly.

I really miss DOS. At least with that I knew what was happening.

Jim
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