Download / Install Canon Printer Driver for Ubuntu

Canon is one of the largest printer manufacturer in the world, unfortunate canon never include linux / ubuntu driver in each product that we buy, in other words Printer driver only available in Windows and Machintos. This problem sometimes inconvenient us while try to use the printer, but referencing to this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CanonCaptDrv190, some canon printers can work properly in ubuntu and some driver has available in PPA. So you do not have to worry anymore.


If you have any canon printer, and met some difficulties while try to install it on ubuntu, we hope this will be your solution, before start the installation, add Canon Driver PPA repository through following command

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon
    sudo apt-get update

Example :
To install the driver, of course you must known what series do you have, here is some example installing Canon Pixma iP100 in ubuntu, for the other series can be seen below  :

    sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-ip100series

Canon Pixma iP Series Ubuntu driver

    Canon iP100 Ubuntu Driver -  cnijfilter-ip100series
    Canon iP1800 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip1800series
    Canon iP1000 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixmaip1000series
    Canon iP1500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixmaip1500series
    Canon iP1900 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip1900series
    Canon iP 2200 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip2200series
    Canon iP2500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip2500series
    Canon iP2600 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip2600series
    Canon iP2700 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip2700series
    Canon iP3300 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip3300series
    Canon iP3500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip3500series
    Canon iP3600 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip3600series
    Canon iP4200 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip4200series
    Canon iP4500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip4500series
    Canon iP4700 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip4700series
    Canon iP4800 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip4800series
    Canon iP5200 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip5200series
    Canon iP6600 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip6600series
    Canon iP7500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-ip7500series

Canon Pixma MG Series Ubuntu Driver

    Canon MG5100 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mg5100series
    Canon MG5200 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mg5200series
    Canon MG6100 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mg6100series
    Canon MG8100 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mg8100series

Canon PIXMA MP Series Ubuntu Driver

    Canon MP140 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp140series
    Canon MP160 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp160series
    Canon MP190 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp190series
    Canon MP210 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp210series
    Canon MP240 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp240series
    Canon MP490 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp490series
    Canon MP500 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp500series
    Canon MP510 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp510series
    Canon MP520 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp520series
    Canon MP540 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp540series
    Canon MP550 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp550series
    Canon MP560 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp560series
    Canon MP600 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp600series
    Canon MP610 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp610series
    Canon MP630 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp630series
    Canon MP640 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mp640series

Canon MX Series Ubuntu Driver

    Canon MX320 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx320series
    Canon MX330 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx330series
    Canon MX350 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx350series
    Canon MX360 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx360series
    Canon MX410 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx410series
    Canon MX420 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx420series
    Canon MX860 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx860series
    Canon MX870 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx870series
    Canon MX880 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-mx880series

Canon PIXUS Series Ubuntu Driver

    Pixus 550 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus5510iseries
    Pixus 560 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus560iseries
    Pixus 850 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus850iseries
    Pixus 860 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus860iseries
    Pixus 865 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus865iseries
    Pixus 950 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus950iseries
    Pixus 990 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixus990iseries
    Canon Pixus ip3100 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixusip3100series
    Canon Pixus ip4100 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixusip4100series
    Canon Pixus ip8600 Ubuntu Driver - cnijfilter-pixusip8600series

Driver above not tested yet by us, but hopefully fine. If you find any difficulties contact the administrator through this page https://launchpad.net/~michael-gruz/+archive/canon.