Installing Canon printer Pixma MG6150

Asked by John Victor Lorck

I `ve just installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my pc.
My printer is a Pixma MG6150, but when the printer was connected, there was no driver available.
On the Net I found 3 files:

cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz
cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-rpm.tar.gz
guidemg6100series-pd-3.40-1_en.tar.gz

but I'm at a loss what to do with them.

Please help !

John.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#1

https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon

Please add this ppa https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon
to your repository, open a terminal by press ctrl + alt + t then type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ...

To see names detail of packages of this ppa
please read https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon

Hope this helps

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#2

Thank you Marco.
When I now switch on the printer, it does not ask for a driver, but it still does not print.

John

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#3

Try to completely remove the printer and reinstall it, may solve...

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#4

Did as you said, but now it asks for a driver, and I can chose Canon from a list, but my printer pixma MG6150 is not there to chose.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#5

Try to install cnijfilter-common-3.40 then as i can read here there is a package for Ubuntu 10.04 here:

http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0040245.asp?model=

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#6

Well now I'm in deep water. I have downloaded the file you said, but what do I do with it ?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#7

you must install it with this terminal command... (substitute real path and file name)

cd to_the_donwload_directory

sudo dpkg -i name_of_file.deb

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#8

As far as I can understand it says that the "cnijfilter-source-3.40-1.tar.gz" is not an archive in debianform

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#9

So you need to extract the tar.gz and compile the sources you need to install the build-essentials package to do it and may be something else, so i don't think is the quick and easiest way to follow...

tar xvzf cnijfilter-source-3.40-1.tar.gz

then usually there is a readme or a install or compile file into source tree

cd ...
./configure
make

I think is better to wait for some other answer or look for already compiled sources for Ubuntu 11.04 or contact https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz

He already have done the sources compile for that and the packages are ready here:

https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon?field.series_filter=natty

as you can see there is the cnijfilter-common-3.40 package...

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#10

This is really difficult.
I extracted the tar.gz and it gave a lot of files, but how do I install the cnijfilter-common ?
I do not know which to use ?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#11

The folder which came out of the archive will contain 2 deb files, you need to install both.

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#12

thank you for your interest !
But 1. where do I find the archive now ?
and 2. how do I install - I do not know much about command-language ?

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#13

I will assume the compressed file is in ~/Downloads

cd Downloads/; tar zxvf ./cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz; cd cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb; sudo ./install.sh

Will install it. There is an install script you need to run. You can also do this in nautilus. Alternatively you can run (for 64bit Ubuntu):
cd Downloads/; tar zxvf ./cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz; cd cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb/packages; sudo dpkg -i ./cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_a*

or for 32bit Ubuntu:
cd Downloads/; tar zxvf ./cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz; cd cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb/packages; sudo dpkg -i ./cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_i*

And the debs will install and it should be ok, there is a resources folder in the file but I don't have tine to read the install.sh file to see what it actually does.

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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#14

You are just like an angel sent from heaven with magic powers !!
Thank you so much for your help, now I can print !!!
It is all chinese to me, but it works.

Yours John

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
#15

Please, to help other users with the same issue, tell the place where you have find the file

cnijfilter-mg6100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz

i mean the web page link

Thank

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#16

If you read the command, it makes sense. Take some time :)

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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John Victor Lorck (johnlorck) said :
#18

Thank you ! - In the meantime I had forgotten where it came from.

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David Hogan (g3puz) said :
#19

I have been following this question because I am having the same problem as John with a Canon printer (MP270). But when I get to "print test page" I'm getting a CUPS server error notice as follows:
There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-document-format-not-supported'.

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Henry Goldstein (henryg) said :
#20

Big thanks to actionparsnip. I, too, downloaded the drivers from Canon, but was not sufficiently practiced in installation from tar files. Copied and pasted the command line, and - printing away just fine. I took it one step further and did the same process with the scanner driver for the MG6150. The printer/scanner is on my home network, and does not appear to be recognized by sane. However the driver program, scangearmp, works, and I added it to the launcher panel.