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Canon printers: installing drivers for a Canon Pixma 280

Asked by Jim Steen

  I'm very new to this system and will probably have to be show step-by-step how do this. I went to the Canon website and down-
loaded the drivers but I don't know how to install them. They are cnijfilter--common_3.40_i386.deb and cnijfilter-mp280series.deb
any help would be greatly appreciated, THANK YOU. Oh by the way I'm using Ubuntus' 11.04 (Natty Narwale)

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

when you click on the deb files, you should be prompted to install them. YOu need to install the cnijfilter--common deb first, and the cnijfilter-mp second.

If this fails (I recall the cnijfilter packages being incorrectly written) move both files to your home folder /home/jim, or whatever, then try opening a terminal (search for terminal in launcher, or press Ctrl+Alt+T) and running this:

sudo dpkg -i cnij*deb

if that does not work, post the output from this command back here.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

Please add this ppa https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon to your repository, from terminal type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-common-2.80

Hope this helps

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valeria Victoria (valeriavc) said : 		#3

You can download the driver at https://canondriver-usa.com/canon-pixma-mp280-driver-download.html there was a linux provider

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