Installing Canon MG5600 series Printer/Scanner/Copier

**greg_arbour** · February 1st, 2015

For anyone who might be installaing a Canon MG5600 series printer I hope this will save you the 8 hours I spent trying to find a solution. I have an MG5620 and am using a wireless connection to Lubuntu. Both printing and scanning work. In addtion to the proceedures below I installed cnijfilter2-5.00-1.i386.rpm using Alien, but nothing worked until I found this gem on http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/ca.../#post-7324948 All of the credit goes to the original author!!!

Canon Pixma MG5600 Series Scanner Installation

Start terminal and copy/paste the following commands:

1) Create the download directory and switch to it:

Code:

mkdir -p ~/Downloads/canon/pixma_mg5600/

2) Change the active directory:

Code:

cd ~/Downloads/canon/pixma_mg5600/

3) Download the archive:

Code:

wget http://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/0100006271/01/scangearmp2-3.00-1-deb.tar.gz

4) Unpack the archive:

Code:

tar -xzvf scangearmp2*.tar.gz

5) Change the active directory:

Code:

cd scangearmp2*/packages/

6) Check if Ubuntu is installed in 64 bit or 32:

Code:

uname -m

7) Install the appropriate package:
# for 64 bit:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i scangearmp2*amd64.deb

# for 32 bit:

Code:

sudo dpkg -i scangearmp2*i386.deb

8) Test your scanner:

Code:

scangearmp2

**coffeecat** · February 1st, 2015

Not a Forum Feedback & Help thread.

Thread moved to Hardware.

**pdc** · February 2nd, 2015

thanks Greg; the kind person whose post you read; could do it more simply;

.............using the install script that Canon provides.................that automates the install.....................

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PRINTER DRIVER

so one could get the printer driver from here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100626502.html and it comes down as cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb.tar.gz

so the commands would be:

cd Downloads (where it should end up by default..................)
tar -zxvf cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb
./install.sh

..................so that last command runs the install script and it should do all for you ............

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SCANNER DRIVER

comes from here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100627102.html and comes down as scangearmp2-3.00-1-deb.tar.gz

so commands in a terminal are

cd Downloads
tar -zxvf scangearmp2-3.00-1-deb.tar.gz
cd scangearmp2-3.00-1-deb
./install.sh

and one runs it with

Code:

scangearmp2

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you did very well to document all you did; and it worked well for you;

however as the intent is for a newcomer to find help; I document the above here; as I think it is simpler than the thread you used

**mats-gbproject** · August 14th, 2015

scangearmp2? Is this really the only option?!
I can only scan low resolution images...
Is it not possible to connect this with simple scan?

**botux2** · June 18th, 2016

Originally Posted by mats-gbproject

scangearmp2? Is this really the only option?!
I can only scan low resolution images...
Is it not possible to connect this with simple scan?

You can add the sane dev ppa : https://launchpad.net/~rolfbensch/+a...buntu/sane-git
via :

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rolfbensch/sane-git
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Then re-install your printer the usual way.
The printer and scanner should be working without the crap apps from canon !

Cf : https://askubuntu.com/questions/6412...=votes#tab-top