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Need drivers Canon IP8500 printer

Asked by SMark Harford

I've recently had Ubuntu installed by a friend due to problem with XP virus attacks. Desktop now partitioned but I can't find
drivers for Canon IP8500

Any Ideas

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you check the Canon site for support. They do make deb files for some of their printers.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

google "canon asia" or "canon europe". one or both of these sites will have linux drivers for your printer.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

The gutenprint drivers should support your printer out-of-the-box.

Search for "gutenprint" in Ubuntu Software Center and ensure that cups-driver-gutenprint , cupsys-driver-gutenprint , foomatic-db-gutenprint , ijsgutenprint and libgutenprint2 are installed.

Sources:

http://www.openprinting.org/driver/gutenprint
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Canon/Canon-PIXMA-iP8500
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php

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