How-to Install Canon iP2700 Printer Driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS Easy Guide

March 14th, 2016 by thelinuxevangelist

Install Canon iP2700 Printer Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

You are Welcome! The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install Canon PIXMA iP2700 Driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS 32/64-bit Desktop.

Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary MP140 Ubuntu 16.04 Driver.

So to Install Canon iP2700 on Ubuntu we’ll make use of the Gutenprint suite Drivers release.

And Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.

Canon iP2700 Driver Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial How-to Download and Install - Featured

  1. First Open Terminal Window
    Ctrl+Alt+t
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Canon iP2700 Driver Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial How-to Download and Install - Open Terminal

  2. Then Install Required Packages
    First Update the Apt repositories:

    sudo apt update

    And Setup the tools:

    sudo apt install gcc libtool libssl-dev libc-dev \
libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng12-dev libtiff5-dev cups

  3. Download GutenPrint Source for Linux:

    GutenPrint Linux Source

    Grab the Latest gutenprint tar.bz2 file.

  4. Next Double-Click on Archive
    And Extract into /tmp

    GutenPrint Printers Drivers for CUPS/Ghostscript and Gimp Plugin on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS Archive Extraction

    Or from Shell:

    tar xvf ~/Downloads/gutenprint*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp

  5. Finally Install Gutenprint for Ubuntu Linux

    cd /tmp/gutenprint*
    ./configure
    make clean
    make
    sudo make install

    The Installation will be Quickly Achieved in about 5 Minutes.
    For further Instructions and Details Look to the README File…

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