how do i install new pixma mp 250 printer

The Canon PIXMA MP250 is a wonderful scanner and printer combination, a printer that is compact, elegant and produces high quality prints. Unfortunately printing and scanning is not natively supported by Ubuntu. Fortunately the drivers for printing and scanning are available in deb format. With a few installations and configurations, full functionality of the printer/scanner can be achieved in Ubuntu
Installing the PIXMA MP250 Printer

1. Head over to the Canon driver page and download the printer driver (MP250 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 3.20 for Linux (debian Packagearchive)) for the MP250 printer series

2. The download will be a tar.gz file, extract the contents of that file, and install the two packages (cnijfilter-common_3.20-1_i386.deb and cnijfilter-mp250series_3.20-1_i386.deb) contained in the extracted folder by double clicking them and following the on screen prompts.

3. Once installed, connect and turn the printer on, Ubuntu should recognize it and suggest the correct driver.
Installing the PIXMA MP250 Scanner

This part is slightly tricky as it involves installing the Sane backends, which is the system responsibly for scanning on Ubuntu.

1. Head over to the Canon driver page and download the scanner driver (MP250 series ScanGear MP Ver. 1.40 for Linux (debian Packagearchive)) for the MP250 printer series

2. Install the two .deb packages (scangearmp-common_1.40-1_i386.deb and scangearmp-mp250series_1.40-1_i386.deb) contained with in the tar.gz downloaded package by double clicking them and following the on screen prompts.

3. Open a terminal and roll up your sleeves, this is where it gets slightly messy. In you terminal copy the following command:

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev build-essential

This will install some required packages for the scanner

4. Now we need to get the sane backend, we will do this via git. If you don’t already have git installed on your pc, run the following command in your terminal

sudo apt-get install git-core

5. Now we will need to fetch the sane backend by running the following command:

git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git

This will download the sane backend into the sane-backend folder within your home folder.

6. Once the download is finished you will notice that it is an uncompiled package, meaning that it will have to be compiled manually. Don’t worry, as it is quite a simple process to compile and install a package. Firstly move into the downloaded folder:

cd sane-backends

7. No we can run the configuration of the package with the following command:

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –localstatedir=/var

8. Once the configuration is complete we are now ready to compile the package by entering the following command into the terminal:

make

This process may take a while

9. Last step now is to install the package that was compiled in the previous step, note this last step requires the sudo (super user) command :

sudo make install

10. The scanner is now installed, however the permissions still need to be set. To set the permissions we will create a new file that will allow usage of the scanner. In the terminal, open Gedit:

sudo gedit

Once Gedit is opened, copy and paste the following text into the empty gedit file

SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ENV{DEVTYPE}==”usb_device”, MODE:=”0666″

SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”,MODE:=”0666″

Save the file in the /etc/udev/rules.d/ directory, titled 40-scanner-permissions.rules

Your PIXMA MP250 scanner is now installed. You may now fire up the Xsane scanning utility and scan away.

Information gathered from: http://ubuntica.com/pixma-mp250-on-ubuntu.html

   David
   in TN

   Ps this worked for mine I have a Pixma250

thank you for your answer to my  question    perhaps it would be better for me to gift the pr4inter to one of my friendsw that can have less  hook up troubles  and get a new printer that will work better with  my system  do you have any ideas that my help me ??   i m  not  in a position to really go through the jumps  you have  told m to do  as im just no5t  5that understanding of  hoqw  to go  about  the process   any  idea on what to b uy that would be eaisier for  me to use would really be a great help    thanking you in advance i am in you debt for sure    roger krausankas    krausankas1 @att.net

--- On Thu, 6/17/10, marcobra (Marco Braida) <email address hidden> wrote:

From: marcobra (Marco Braida) <email address hidden>
Subject: [Question #114855]: how do i install new pixma mp 250 printer
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 1:12 AM

Your question #114855 on cups in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/114855

    Project: yelp in ubuntu => cups in ubuntu

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SORRY FOR THE DELAY IN GETTING BACK TO YOU BUT I HAVE BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE LAST FEW WEKS AND JUST GOT BACK HOME I WILL WORK ON THE COMPUTER IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND TRY TO GET THINGS RUNNING THANX AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP I WILL DO MY BEST TO GET THIS THING TO WORK AS I NOW WILL HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO WORK ON IT MY LAZY BOY CHAIR WITH MY WIRELESS KEYBOARD & MOUSE WILL GET A WORKOUT FOR SURE THANX AGAIN & WISH ME LUCK !!! ROGER

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