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Canon PIXMA MG5220 won't print with 11.10

Asked by Allan Grandgenett

New to Ubuntu, just loaded 11.10 and finally got my wireless working but still having problems making the printer work. I have a Canon Pixma MG5220 all in one. When I connect via USB I can find the printer and two drivers are available. I've tried both. When I go to print the test page everything appears to go well, printer even appears to recieve data but never prints anything. Tried to print a libre doc too, with same result. Also tryed to connect to it wirelessly but having no luck. Cannot even connect. Network printer settings ask for information I'm not familiar with like URI and ipp. Tired to use the printers IP address but no luck. Went into networking and "pinged" the IP address - said it was 100% successful. I have no idea what to do.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#1

http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/canon-pixma-mg5220-ubuntu-setup/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1588333
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1649084
Try these sites, may help. There is another site, a man's name, is good. I can't find it now. Maybe someone else has it.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

you might want to download and install the updates for cups as well.

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Allan Grandgenett (allan-grandgenett) said : 		#3

Okay - this is much more complicated than it should be. I down loaded the drivers from the Canon Au site provided in the links. It went into my active manager (whatever that is) and I couldn't find it again. What is the active manager and where does it go when you close it? Had to down load it another time, extracted it, and now the driver file is sitting in my home folder. Don't know what good it does there. I go to open it up and I can 'tfind anything I'm used to clicking in a windows program that would cause it to run/install etc. Where's the autoplay/ Run/ Installer/ Wizard?? Thought Ubuntu was suppose to be intuitive and simple! Tried typing some of the commands directly into the terminal as per one of the links above. It appeared to download the driver again and make a connection wiht the printer - but the printer couldn't tell, and neither could I when I tried to print through the normal interface.

Bottomline I've downloaded a driver, but I don't know how to make it work. Still not sure that's the real problem. There was already a driver installed - it just wasn't printing when connected via USB (although data was going out), and not even connecting when trying to print wirelessly.

I need the idiot's guide to this process.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#4

Check these for installing downloaded files. Be sure to read all of the site.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-107338-how-to-install-tar-gz-file-on-ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

You said: It went into my active manager (whatever that is)..... I am not using 11.10, yet. I do not know any thing about active manager. Have Googled, active manager Ubuntu, still don't know what it is. Still haven't found other site referred to in #1.

http://osr600doc.sco.com/en/PR_cups/ipp.html
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/spec-ipp.html
These sites will explain some about URI and ipp.

Marcus said: you might want to download and install the updates for cups as well. #2 If you have, Ok, if not, download from Ubuntu Software Center.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#5

Canon Drivers
Michael-Gruz has made a Launchpad repository with all of the Canon drivers. All you need to do is include the repository, and install the correct driver. In a terminal:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon
    sudo apt-get update
This will add the repository and index it, then:
sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mp600series.........................change to match your printer.
will install the driver. You should then be able to make a new printer, and use the correct driver.

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michael (yellupcm-gmail) said : 		#6

Read this, may be some help.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/177915

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Allan Grandgenett (allan-grandgenett) said : 		#7

Finally got it, very education experience. Article you gave me from #6 was the key. It was the scangear software piece that I was missing. Also turning the printer off then installing made a difference. After installing all drivers and scangear, then turning printer back on the printer appeared in network printers list and I was off and running. Still finding ubuntu a little cumbersome. Having to do all this through a terminal interface is not very user friendly for someone at my level. I was finding all kinds of drivers and firmware through the software center, installed about 5 different apps that I thought would work with no luck. Glad this worked. Now I think I can get the most out of the OS. Thanks for the help