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Mounting Canon MG-5450 on 13.10

Asked by Marc Eymard

I cannot get thisCanon MG-5450 printer to work with my 13.10 Saucy Salamander.
It works as a network wireless printer and get picked up by the system.

My Problem:
- cannot find in SETTINGS the correct driver for the model as a possible option
- when trying my luck on different drivers, the printer does not respond and fails to print test page.

For info ,I managed to install a similar Canon printer that was a bit older.

This newer Canon printer I cannot install properly is a fairly new model.

Could somebody help to point me in the right direction for a fix?

Cheers,
Marc

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

I would try installing the driver for the canon MG5400 series from http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100467602.html and using the 'add network printer' dialogue as shown here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingWithUbuntu#Printing_from_Ubuntu

If you have already tried that in vain, please ignore my advice.

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Marc Eymard (marc-eymard-v) said : 		#2

Hi Manfred,

I have already tried to install the unbuntu driver MG5400 in vain from the add network printer facility.

Is there any difference betwenn this one and the one available online from Canon?

Marc

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

I am not sure, but usually the supplier-delivered drivers have more features than the drivers contained in Ubuntu. Maybe it does make a difference.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you ping the printer ok? When you map a network printer you are not mounting it. You mount filesystems to get access to them.

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Marc Eymard (marc-eymard-v) said : 		#5

Yes, I can ping it ok and I can see all the admin and network settings.

In fact, when trying to install the printer, there is every possible canon driver available for selection but the one for the MG5400 series (pixma). I already tried to pick a similar one but it is not working.

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Marc Eymard (marc-eymard-v) said : 		#6

I have dowloaded the correct ubuntu/linux driver off the Canon website.
The file is named [...]mgs5400series-380-1-deb.tar.gz

I am not sure about how to unpack properly and what system file it should be unpacked to.

Can somebody clarify/help?

thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

Yes extract that file and there will be a folder of deb files.

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Marc Eymard (marc-eymard-v) said : 		#8

Andy, just to clarify, you are saying I can extract the files from any location (e.g. desktop or dowload folder) and a script will run and (hopefully )do the rest?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

Yes as the debs will be installed throughout the OS as needed. You don't extract applications in a special place in Windows either but the installer puts the installed files where they need to go to work...

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Marc Eymard (marc-eymard-v) said : 		#10

sorted! There was a package dependency (libtiff4) though.
cheers guys