How to Install Canon Printers Drivers on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Easy Guide

Installing Canon Printers Driver in Linux Mint

You are Welcome! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Canon InkJet Printers Driver on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca Mate/Cinnamon/KDE/Xfce 32-64-bit Desktop.

Included in the Canon Printers Driver Installation Tutorial for Mint you find also detailed instructions on How to Get Started with Canon Scanning on Mint.

1. Open a Shell Terminal emulator window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   

2. Download Canon Printers Linux Drivers

   Canon Printers .deb Driver

   Canon Scanner Quick Start.

   Search for “linux [myCanonModRounded]”
   You may need to Round Down the Printer Model Number as here below…
   Eg: for ‘mx472’ search for “linux mx470”
   And for ‘MG2240’ search for “linux MG2200”

3. Possibly Double-Click on Printer Driver on the File Manager:

   

4. Extract into the /tmp Directory.

   

5. Installing Canon Printer Driver
   Access the Target location:

   cd /tmp/cnijfilter*

   Run the Installation script:

   sudo ./install.sh

   You could be asked to Connect and Turn On the Printer…
   In case of Installation Issues see this Troubleshooting!

   
   Now in case of Issue then try first to execute:

   cd /tmp/cnijfilter*deb/packages

   sudo su -c "apt-get install gdebi"

   sudo su -c "gdebi ./*.deb"

6. How to Get Started Scanning on Linux Mint

   Mint Scanner Quick Start

   Mint Scanner Setup.