searching for Canon PIXMA MP520 driver

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Hello Community,
I am looking for a driver for my Canon PIXMA MP520 printer and scanner. The SUSE Linux 11 64bit distribution has a lot of drivers, but none for MP520. A tried a lot, and one driver, for PIXMA MP610, at least reacts and prints black text, but the colors are printed chaoticly.
Does anybody have an idea ? Some people recommended an 8200- foomatic driver, but this only takes a page from the back tray and prints nothing… As I have also installed Windows the scanner is not so important, but the printer is…

I am waiting for suggestions,
thank you for your help,
Clausroberto

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I don’t think so that there is any driver for PIXMAs. I’ve only found one for SUSE 9.2 on Canons site… Canon isn’t planing to produce drivers for Linux distributions so far. :frowning:
Alternatively you can print with some limitations in TurboPrint:
ZEDOnet | TurboPrint Linux | Printer driver for Linux.
Good luck.

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On Mon March 9 2009 02:16 pm, ram88 wrote:

>
> clausroberto;1954850 Wrote:
>> Hello Community,
>> I am looking for a driver for my Canon PIXMA MP520 printer and scanner.
>> The SUSE Linux 11 64bit distribution has a lot of drivers, but none for
>> MP520. A tried a lot, and one driver, for PIXMA MP610, at least reacts
>> and prints black text, but the colors are printed chaoticly.
>> Does anybody have an idea ? Some people recommended an 8200- foomatic
>> driver, but this only takes a page from the back tray and prints
>> nothing… As I have also installed Windows the scanner is not so
>> important, but the printer is…
>>
>> I am waiting for suggestions,
>> thank you for your help,
>> Clausroberto
> I don’t think so that there is any driver for PIXMAs. I’ve only found
> one for SUSE 9.2 on Canons site… Canon isn’t planing to produce
> drivers for Linux distributions so far. :frowning:
clausroberto;

Look here for a link to the proprietary Canon Driver.

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP520

There is also another link for the MP520 on the OpenPrinting.org site, you
might want to check that also (but it says more or less the same thing). If
you are running X86_64 Opensuse you may need to set up a link
usr\lib64\cups\filter to the canon filters in \usr\lib\cups\filter. Be sure
to read the documentation found on the canon site with the filters (you need
both filters)

Many of those who have posted on Canon printers have had difficulty when the
printer was installed by YAST. If YAST install seems to fail, then try
un-installing and installing directly with CUPS. You can access CUPS through
a web interface here:

http://localhost:631/

–
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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as PV points out, Canon do make drivers

go here:

Canon

you need to install two packages, in the correct order;

  1. IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.80 for Linux(rpm Common package).

and then

  1. IJ Printer Driver Ver. 2.80 for Linux(rpm Package for MP520series)

you can install by right-clicking on the file in the directory you have downloaded it into; and selecting package installer; which is YaST;

or open a terminal; assume root powers and

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

where the * reflects the package you wish to install

I don’t know how much you know; let us know what extra details you need

then as PV says, try YaST to install printer, and then CUPS if that is not all good …

and for the scanner

ScanGear MP Ver. 1.10 for Linux(rpm Package for MP520series)

as PV said, if you have chosen 64 bit, it may give you more problems …

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32 bit canon mp520 printer drivers can be made to work on 64 bit openSUSE 11.1

A) Install the 2 rpms in the correct order according to canons instructions.

B) Add the following symbolic-link:

ln -s /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstocanonij /usr/lib64/cups/filter

C) Configure the printer in >yast2>hardware>printers.

The 32 bit scangearmp drivers cannot be made to work on 64 bit linux.

I have already written to developersupport@cusa.canon.com asking for native 64 bit drivers for the canon mp520. If a few more linux users would write to canon then they would appreciate the true demand for 64 bit drivers…

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Hello all for your support,
but I have still some problems.
I have to admit that I am an Linux beginner…

  1. installing the rpms failed with error:
    rpm -Uvh cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
    libpopt.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-common-2.80-1.i386
    bzw.
    w8n00356:/home/download # rpm -Uvh cnijfilter-mp520series-2.80-1.i386.rpm
    error: Failed dependencies:
    cnijfilter-common >= 2.80 is needed by cnijfilter-
    mp520series-2.80-1.i386
    libpopt.so.0 is needed by cnijfilter-mp520series-2.80-1.i386

  2. I can not create the link William recommended, because I
    have only the directory /usr/lib64/cups/filter,
    but not /usr/lib/cups/filter, and pstocanonij is nowhere on my computer…

I have not installed linux myself, so I can not tell you if my “supplier” has installed all packages …

Can you again help me (poor linux beginner) ???

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Thank you P.V. and WilliamSimonLewis and all other helpers!

I reinstalled the popt library, downloaded the drivers (what caused me some trouble), and installed the printer via cups.

I have not yet tried the scanner, but this is not so important for me…

Thanks again,

Regards,

Claus Roberto

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Hi Guys,

Firstly thanks for the post, they were very helpful.

just one extra item that caused me some issues was the version of the libpopt dependency needed is the 32bit version. Even though my system is 64 bit and the 64bit version was installed the dependency was on the 32 bit version.

Thanks