May 08, 2013  Note that many, but not all, Canon printers have Linux drivers. Compatible printers The Ubuntu wiki contains a list of Canon printers by model number that have been tested in.

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• Ubuntu Canon Printer Drivers

How to install Canon G2000 printer driver on Ubuntu?

I can't find any driver for Linux on Canon official website.

The printer is totally unable to work on ubuntu without a driver, any ideas?

1 Answer

You can get this printer working by installing gutenprint for linux. I wrote detailed instructions on my blog.

The options for a person trying to install Canon's G1000 and G2000 are limited to the following:

1. Compile and install gutenprint. Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers for linux. It works just like native drivers and supports cups based printing.

2. Buy a third party linux printing driver and utility, called Turboprint. It too has excellent support. An added bonus is a GUI for checking printer spooling, and configuring varied options like Paper type, resolution etc. The cost of an individual license is upwards of $34.

If you decide to go with the first solution, the steps include the following. My system is a Ubuntu Xenial 64bit.

First you need some developmental headers. So add to your /etc/apt/sources.list, the following lines if you dont have them. Modify these according to your version of Linux(Debian/Ubuntu):

Update your sources and install the build dependencies:

Now download the source release package for gutenberg (version >=5.2.13) from Sourceforge.

Alternately clone the git repo.

Now configure, make and install.

Source: My blog post

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