Pudge
March 1, 2022, 2:12am
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I know Brother printers, but I know nothing about Canon printers or their drivers.
In the mean time, here are some Topics on Canon printers, hopefully one will help you.
I am not able to install the printer driver for my canon G6000
I have had this printer for a few months, with toner and it prints in black and white.
As expected the driver does not exist for Linux, but there is a way to install it on EOS.
I use the printer with USB cable, it can also be used with WiFi, but this is not my case. The system takes it as Canon MF260 Series UFRII LT and the driver for it is: Canon imageRunner 330s.
The location needs to be changed: Lab 1
[printer]
[IMG_20220125_190435377]
That’s all.
If you have installed EOS and want to get a Canon printer working over wifi using their proprietary bjnp protocol
install cups and cups-bjnp
start cups service (systemctl enable cups.service, then systemctl start cups.service)
install the cnij drivers for your printer (ex: cnijfilter-mg3600series) from AUR
open browser, go to localhost:631 which is the web interface for CUPS
click “add printer”, and finish the install
Should go smoothly. The thing many users get stuck is that Canon uses this…
But this Canon WIFI thing is a bit strange to set up, as far as I can see… it has its own wifi “hotspot” ?
and yes needs most likely the driver @pebcak suggesting, same what canon provides as the driver for Linux on the website:
yay -S cnijfilter2-mg3600
If you want connect it over wifi i would recommend also to follow what you will find under troubleshooting on discovery printer wiki:
sudo pacman -S --needed nss-mdns
sudo nano /etc/nsswitch.conf
and change the hosts line to include mdns…
If none of those help, go to the search icon to the left of your avatar and enter “Canon printer” there are more Topics beyond the above mentioned.
Pudge