CanoniP2700 Driver Linux Mint 19 How-to Download & Install

June 1, 2018 | By thelinuxevangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Install CanoniP2700 Printer Linux Mint 19

You are Welcome! The Linux Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Install Canon PIXMAiP2700 Driver on Linux Mint 19 LTS 32/64-bit Desktop.

Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary MP140 Linux Mint 19 Driver.

So to Install CanoniP2700 on Linux Mint 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.

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

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 libpng-dev libtiff5-dev cups

Download GutenPrint Source for Linux:

GutenPrint Linux Source

Gutenprint Source.

Grab the Latest gutenprint tar.bz2 file.
Next Double-Click on Archive
And Extract into /tmp

Or from Shell:
```
tar xvf ~/Downloads/gutenprint*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp
```
Finally Install Gutenprint for Linux Mint
```
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…