SOLVED Truble installing Canon Pixma MG3500 printer driver

[Bryce_Hutchison]

Hi all;

I'm running Ubunu Dream Studio 32bit.

I have tryed to install 'cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb' whitch I downloaded from best-drivers-blogspot site but it won't find my printer.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

[pdc]

so if one was starting from the beginning, I would suggest going to the Canon Asia site

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/?personal

and finding the MG3500 page

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100550402.html

and what you would download would be cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb.tar.gz

the commands to install it .......

if the Downloads directory is where you download things to ...

........ would be..........

cd Downloads

then

tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb.tar.gz

then

cd cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb

then

sudo ./install.sh

and that should install it for you;

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what does

dpkg -l | grep cnijfilter

give if you copy and paste it into a terminal? .......for my Canon I get "ii cnijfilter-common 3.60-1 IJ Printer Driver for Linux. ii cnijfilter-mg3100series 3.60-1 IJ Printer Driver for Linux."

.....if you don't get any results, it suggests nothing was installed and you can run the commands I suggested; if you do get results, can I suggest you use synaptic to find the cnijfilter-mg3500series and cnij-common and remove and use the commands I suggest?

[Bryce_Hutchison]

Thanks for your time and support .

Thanks to you I got it working perfectly.

Terific help; thanks again .

[pdc]

great; enjoy

..............Canon provide ScanGearMP which is a programme to run the scanner side of the device

you can get it from here

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100552102.html

and it comes down as scangearmp-mg3500series-2.20-1-deb.tar.gz

you install as for the printer driver; .....let me know if you want the commands detailed

to run it, you type

scangearmp

into a terminal; if you google on ubuntu launcher, you can see ways to set up a launcher for repeated use