Canon MP700 Driver Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial How to Install

Install Canon MP700 Printer Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install Canon PIXMA MP700 Driver on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS GNU/Linux Desktop.

Especially relevant: Canon has not released a proprietary MP568 Ubuntu 16.04 Driver.

So to Install Canon MP700 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.

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

   

   In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.

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

   GutenPrint Source

   Grab the Latest gutenprint tar.bz2 file.

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

   

   Or from Shell:

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

5. Finally, Install Gutenprint for Ubuntu.

   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…