Canon MG3120 works in ubuntu but not mint 12

[Reckinball]

Not sure why but when i add printer in ubuntu it finds the printer on network then all you do is select the model it pulls up. It then searches for drivers and auto selects canon and says recommended beside it. Once you click on that you just pick the model # and finish. Printing works well in ubuntu. Now for linux mint 12. There are no drivers listed for this printer. Seems strange when it finds the printer on the network and starts to search for drivers it has recommended beside the generic driver which does not work. I have searched around on the net and tried a few things but nothing seems to work. I hope somebody could tell me how to get this on linux mint.

thanks,
Reckinball

[Reckinball]

Anybody???? Does anyone know at least how to get the drivers that ubuntu uses into linux mint?

Thanks,
Reckinball

[pdc_2]

I got a Canon MG3160 working on my Mint; (32bit):

I went to the Canon Asia website; and downloaded the .deb package for the printer; and the scangear .deb package for the scanner function; they are called the 3100 series devices so should work for 3120 to 3170 surely

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/?personal

and you select your device and come up with this

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/P/se ... g_os=Linux

for Mint, based on debian; select the .deb package

they come down as .tar.gz and they downloaded into my Downloads folder

I did it all in a terminal: open a terminal

cd Downloads/

........that gets me into the Downloads directory

ls

...........asks the terminal to list what is in the directory

tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mg3100series-3.60-1-deb.tar.gz

......this unpacks the .tar.gz file and CREATES a directory called cnijfilter-mg3100series-3.60-1-deb..INSIDE that directory are all the goodies.......

so

cd cnijfilter-mg3100series-3.60-1-deb

ls

.............asks the terminal to tell you what is inside this directory (now that you are inside it ).........

the magic install file is listed as install.sh and to get it to install you type

./install.sh

and hit the ENTER key as with all terminal commands, and it should install; I hadn't plugged the printer in at that stage; before doing the install, it asked me to plug in; which I did; and all went well;

the scanner is installed the same way; good luck
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I learn at least one new thing every day: I have just learnt how to get Canon's scanner utility working from here .........after all this time..............

http://raerav.com/howto-get-canon-pixma ... ith-linux/

key pointer is the note at the bottom: the utility is called scangearmp and you launch by opening a terminal; pasting that in; and hitting the ENTER key;

to add it as an icon to my lower title bar, I right-clicked: add to pane; and selected the top option: custom application launcher; the important section is command which must be scangearmp

[e_scott]

Thank you, pdc_2, for this detailed information on getting the Canon MG3120 to work in Linux Mint 12. I'm happy to see Canon provides debs for users of debian/ubuntu-based distros like Mint. I just bought an MG3120 and so I will try to remember to re-post once I get it working on Mint 13.