How does one install Canon MG series printer / scanner

We recently purchased a Canon printer for our home. My wife's works fine because she uses a Mac.

I cannot find the drivers for the Canon MG7520 printer series printer. How does one install that particular printer so i can print it?

P.s. This is for my ubuntu 14.04 computer.

2 Answers

Canon printers all seem to share the same debian driver. I test this with the Canon MG7520 printer on Ubuntu 14.04.

Printer Installation Steps

Download the debian driver found here on Canon's Website:

Extract the tar.gz file and then run the install.sh file:

tar -xvf cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter2-5.00-1-deb
./install.sh

Installing the scanner

The scanner can be found here:

Repeat the same steps:

• Download the tar file
• Extract
• run ./install.sh file

After installing the scanner run:

scangearmp2 to start the scanner software. It'll scan for your scanner.

Sources:

If you want ScangearMP to appear in the Dash, you can create a .desktop file for it.

Copy the following into a text editor:

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Name=ScanGear2 MP

Comment=Cannon's scanner software

Exec=/usr/bin/scangearmp2

Icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/devices/scanner.png

Terminal=false

Type=Application

Categories=Utility;Application;Graphics;Scanning;

Save the file with filename scangearmp.desktop

To use the desktop file from the Dash you will need to copy it to /usr/share/applications for any user to be able to use it (you will need administrator permissions) or to ~/.local/share/applications (where ~ means your user directory) if you just want it to be available for one user.

Source: adapted from Canon (MG 5350) scangear doesn't appear in dash