Ubuntu – How does one install Canon MG series printer / scanner

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We recently purchased a Canon printer for our home. My wife's works fine because she uses a Mac.

I cannot find the drivers for the Canon MG7520 printer series printer. How does one install that particular printer so i can print it?

P.s. This is for my ubuntu 14.04 computer.

Best Answer

Canon printers all seem to share the same debian driver. I test this with the Canon MG7520 printer on Ubuntu 14.04.

Printer Installation Steps

Download the debian driver found here on Canon's Website:

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100626502.html

Extract the tar.gz file and then run the install.sh file:

tar -xvf cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb
./install.sh

Installing the scanner

The scanner can be found here: http://support-ph.canon-asia.com/contents/PH/EN/0100627102.html

Repeat the same steps:

  • Download the tar file
  • Extract
  • run ./install.sh file

After installing the scanner run:

scangearmp2 to start the scanner software. It'll scan for your scanner.

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