A Canon PIXMA printer is nowadays easily installable in Linux Mint. Note: the following how-to is only for Pixma printers! Connect your printer to your computer by means of a USB cable (even when you intend to use it as a network printer later on: for initial installation a USB cable is often needed). Then turn on your printer.

Sometimes it's necessary to add a printer or scanner to the system yourself, by means of the application Printers. In that case the application Printers already contains the driver for your printer, but you have to 'indicate' the printer first. So launch the application Printers.

You can use the search box in your menu to find it; it's present by default in all editions of Ubuntu and Linux Mint. In the application Printers, click the button Add (with the + sign) and follow the steps it offers you. If this fails, for example because your printer is too new for the database in your version of Linux Mint, then proceed with step 3: 3. Go to the Canon website and download the driver for your PIXMA printer. When you have a multifunctional printer that also contains a scanner: download at this point only the driver for the printer part of your multifunctional. John White Pole Shift Pdf Printer. Note: you have to select the driver package with the following tag: (debian Packagearchive) 4. Launch a terminal window. (You can launch a terminal window like this: ) Now the following command into the terminal, in order to unzip the downloaded file: cd Downloads && tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/cnijfilter*deb.tar.gz Press Enter.

With that, you unpack the downloaded file. Now launch your File Manager and go to the folder Downloads.

In that folder you'll find another folder with a long name, that starts with cnijfilter. Drivers Epson Dfx 8500 Paper. Open that folder and click through to its subfolder packages. Download Electrical Power System Design M V Deshpande Pdf Software. The next step differs for 64-bit and 32-bit. So (item 11, left column). Canon 3010 Laser Printer Driver.