Canon Pixma MP620 in Ubuntu 11.04

[mörgæs]

Moved to Hardware and Laptops.

[cyncicle]

Installed this yesterday in 11.10. Worked flawlessly. Thanks, rhgv65c/BK Integration for making this process so much easier than it used to be!

[f00dl3]

I'm attempting to install the MP620B in Ubuntu 12.10 x64 and having issues. Followed the link and manually entered the IP during setup, when going to the Printers configuration screen and clicking Add there is no Canon protocol option. When entering "bjnp://(IP address):8611" manually, and directing it to the PPD file in the MP620-630-Linux-Printer/PPD folder, it spits out the following error: There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-not-possible'.

[pdc]

here is a 4yr old guide to installing this printer; current Canon printers all have linux support; not all did in 2009;

http://www.nervous.it/lang/en-us/200...ess-on-ubuntu/

the basis is installing an MP610 driver from Canon and then pointing this to a ppd file that is called MP620; when one looks at a ppd file in a text editor such as gedit, it is very simple to replace MP610 with MP620

eg this page from Canon Asia

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/P..._os&g_os=Linux

has the debian packages for the MP610: one installs two packages: COMMON first and then the MP610

things are more complicated using a 64bit system for drivers that were only provided in 32bit format: (as 64bit was uncommon in 2009);

if you have only just installed ubuntu, you might consider adding a 32bit partition of Ubuntu;

(and as the new 13.04 is to be released in a week, you could consider installing a 32bit partition of this new Ubuntu ..)

[f00dl3]

Seriously - you are advising me to downgrade to 32 bit and live 10 years in the past so it "works"? Seems like Linux is still stuck in the mid 2000s - especially with Wine supporting only DirectX 9!

The instructions didn't work at all - the drivers pointed to in that document were so outdated that Ubuntu made me do a partial distribution upgrade just to get back to "today." I got a feeling that the Canon MP620b is never going to work in Ubuntu 12.10 and I may as well just give up, and print everything in Windows XP.

At least Skyrim works. Using DX9 "emulators."

[mörgæs]

Seems like Linux is still stuck in the mid 2000s

If there is a driver problem you should direct excess anger towards Canon. They choose which drivers to publish and maintain. 'Linux', whomever you refer to with that title, can not do much.