Canon manufactures printers, scanners and cameras. This tag is for questions relating to installing or troubleshooting their hardware when used with Ubuntu.
Questions tagged [canon]
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How can I install a Canon printer or scanner driver?
I tried to install the MP190 drivers, but appeared a message show me that requires to have libcupsys2. I understand that libcup2 is an update of libcupsys2.
How do I solve this? Are there proprietary drivers for my Canon printer or scanner?
Brallan Aguilar
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Can't get my Canon LBP printer to run under Ubuntu 14.04
I downloaded Linux CAPT driver V2.60 from Canon and installed both .deb packages, which were listed under the 64bit folder with Ubuntu Software-Center. My Canon printer still won't be recognized. Is there anything else I have to do? My printer is…
empedokles
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How to print using only the color cartridge?
My printer ran out of black ink, but the color cartridge still has a lot of ink. I want to print using only ink from the color cartridge. I used to be able to do this using advanced printer settings of the printer driver in Windows 7. I was…
dale
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Install Canon LiDE 300 / 400 on Ubuntu 18.04
Unable to install Canon LiDE 300 on Ubuntu 18.04. How to solve it?
indranil
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Canon LBP3100B Printer => CAPT driver is installed => when I try to start ccpd, I get this: `Check the DevicePath of /etc/ccpd.conf`
OS: Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit
Driver: CAPT v2.60 -> debian package 64 bit
Printer: LBP3100B
Regarding this "Answer", I've installed the canon CAPT driver on my machine, but when I try to start/restart ccpd, I get this error:
However, the printer doesn't…
mini
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Printer jobs can not be stopped
Recently I had one of the most frustrating experiences with my printer.
I sent a some print jobs to my Canon Pixus iP3100 printer, but then realized there was a problem with the layout, and so I wanted to kill the print jobs. I went to this…
Questioner
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How to make LBP-1120 Canon printer work?
Initially this question was limited to 11.10. Now I am in (Lubuntu) 12.10. (On the changes in the question see this meta question).
Considering 11.10
I have tried different (or not so different) approaches - that also other users commented here.…
user47206
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Canon printer color printing too dark
I have a Canon Pixma MG5520 printer/scanner combo. It works very well with Ubuntu 15.10 when printing in greyscale, and SimpleScan works fine. However, when I print in color, everything becomes darker than it should be. When the exact same document…
willem.hill
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How do I install my new Canon MG5250 printer? (MG5200 series)
I just bought a Canon MG5250 multifunction printer because I thought that it would work well with Ubuntu, but it's hard to get it to work.
How do I install this printer?
Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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Where are cameras mounted?
I have a canon PowerShot A3100 IS camera, and, as written in the title, I want to know where does the automount mount it when I connect it.
Does anyone know?
Sam
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Scanner Not detected by Simple Scan
I have Canon Pixma G3012 All-in-One Wireless Ink Tank Colour Printer
I am trying to scan a document from my Linux Ubuntu 18 installed PC using simple scan software.
Connected the device into PC over USB and powered on. Opened simple scan software…
mth
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How do I add a Canon Pixma MX860 network printer?
I am running Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 on two computers, one is AMD-64bit architecture, the other i386--same problem on both. In 11.04 I could print and scan just fine, after some tinkering, but after a fresh install of 11.10, adding…
holtche
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XSane fails to open device (invalid argument)
I'm new to Linux and installed Ubuntu 15.10 few days ago. I can successfully print on my Canon i-SENSYS MF4890dw, but when trying to scan with Xsane I get the following:
Failed to open device 'pixma:MF4800_10.237.93.145': invalid argument
As I…
eugeniosql
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Printer driver - ps, pcl, pxl, which one to choose?
At work we have a Canon C5045i printer, for which Canon provides three PPD files: ps, pcl, and pxl.
Is there any one that is preferable over the others?
Is there any difference between the three?
Victor P.
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"/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoufr2cpca failed" error when trying to print from a Canon MF8030cn
I have not been able to get my MF8030cn printer working on ubuntu 12.04. 64bit
I have Googled for days and tried every tip I could find, including a long thread on the ubuntu forums, but no luck.
The error message is…
Morten
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