Canon Pixma mp640 wireless

[bazzawill]

I downloaded the package from
http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100236602.html
untar the package using

tar xvf cnijfilter-mp640series-3.20-1-i386-deb.tar.gz

cd into the packages directory

 cd cnijfilter-mp640series-3.20-1-i386-deb/packages/

Then using videbcontrol remove all the dependencies from both deb files by deleting everything after

Depends:

make sure you have similar packages installed though I am pretty sure everything will be installed on a default Ubuntu install.
then install the modified packages using

 sudo dpkg -i  sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_3.20-1_i386.modfied.deb cnijfilter-mp640series_3.20-1_i386.modfied.deb

you may have to clean up some files with incorrect permissions check your /var/log/cups/error_log change any file reported with incorrect permissions to match other files in the folder. In particular change user from your user to root using

chown root:root *file*

You may then be able to install your printer using the gui or web interface http://localhost:631
However I could not so I used

cnijnetprn --search auto
sudo /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p canon640 -m canonmp640.ppd -v cnijnet:/00-1E-8F-B8-DA-33

replace the cnijnet... with the output of cnijnetprn
I then found more files with incorrect permissions looking at printers in the web interface, fix them with the steps above and again restart cups and resume the printer.

I hope that helps someone sorry it is not all that straight forward I did not exactly document the steps I took so I someone wants to clean up this guide and repost that would help more people. Now if only canon would update their packages to install more easily.

[sibertiger]

This German manual is really great!
It appeared that the software for the MP640 can be downloaded on this site: http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/P...os&ca_os=Linux.

Just like you said:

1. Install some prerequisite packages, actually I installed libxml2 instead of libxml1.

   sudo apt-get install libxml2 libglade0 libpng3 libtiff4

2. Unpack the downloaded file
3. Run the install script

   cd cnijfilter-mp640series-3.20-x-i386-deb
   sudo ./install.sh

How simple can it be! This works for me and during installation it even finds the printer on the network.

Thanks for your reply.

Hi, Newbie to Ubuntu. Quite versed in Windows, but its too much of a memory hog. Ubuntu is working great, just cannot install my Canon MP640. Followed these steps, and it still is not seeing it. It is wireless. Could you walk me through what I need to do next? Thanks.

[deadflowr]

Hi, Newbie to Ubuntu. Quite versed in Windows, but its too much of a memory hog. Ubuntu is working great, just cannot install my Canon MP640. Followed these steps, and it still is not seeing it. It is wireless. Could you walk me through what I need to do next? Thanks.

This is an old thread, but here goes.

If you've already gone to the printer setup window/page, and clicked new, and selected network and the cji-whateverissays hasn't shown up then do this:
Open the file manager/home folder, go to the folder where you unzipped the package(most likely downloads), you should see a folder with the package name, click on it. You should see three icons, packages, source and install. Click on the packages and you should see four deb files, two common and two with the printer name. first select the common deb for the type of system you're using, 32-bit or 64-bit(i386 is 32-bit, and amd_64 is 64-bit).Clicking on it should open the software center and ask you to install(It might open slowly)So install it. When it is installed go back to folder and click on the deb file for the printer(same as before with the type you're using, and do the same as opening the software center.
Now it has been installed go to the print page again and select new and click network(it might take a minute for it to show up.
When it shows up select the cji-blah-blah and proceed from there.

[sibertiger]

Thank you folks, it is now printing. Appreciate the help.