Help installing Canon Pixma MP 250 Printer/scanner please

[pdc_2]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ........

I stuck to Mate, which is sort of ....gnome 2 I understand ......... so you may be on another version ...... Cinnamon?

from looking at your screenshot

I would head for the ADD button in the middle.......with the green PLUS sign ............

click on that; it should open a "dialogue" box


...........or use the ADD button at bottom right ........hard to know if I don't have the screen............. you need to ADD ........

from there attempt to replicate what I gave you: you can call the custom launcher whatever you wish:

the command must be

scangearmp

[pdc_2]

I wonder if you right-click on your desk-top;

does it offer you a LAUNCHER option?

as I google "gnome3 create custom launcher" ...........it is tricky.............

if your desktop will let you create a launcher, put into it what I have shown you

[Hexeta]

I think the answer to that lies in this thread I posted a couple of weeks ago!
I got myself into an awful mess by deleting the entire "Panel".......despite the warning that it could not be reversed!
I had to construct a new one piece by piece....bit like an episode of CSI.
Despite my cry for help, there were no knowledgeable folks to make it better!!
The only suggestion was a re-install...bit OTT I thought, see what you think!
viewtopic.php?f=175&t=108181

[Hexeta]

I wonder if you right-click on your desk-top;

does it offer you a LAUNCHER option?

Wish I hadn't done that!
A menu appeared and I ticked a box, not a clue what it was about, just thought...I'll be able to reverse this if it isn't what I want....WRONG!

[pdc_2]

you are using LXDE: you told us that at the beginning; I forgot that

watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXDPCoM6FP8f

it tells you how to create a custom launcher in LXDE.............if the application is already in your main menu............I have never used LXDE ....

lordy, lordy, .........

http://douwil7.100webspace.net/linux/Tuning.html#4

seems like you have to read this first;.........LXDE is light and fast but altering things needs more hands-on......................................

what about for the moment just accepting that when you want to scan .................................you just type...................................

Alt-F2

that opens the Run Application menu .........................

and enter scangearmp and hopefully next time when you start typing the s, the system will recognise and jump in ........

.... at least you can scan; .................

maybe we just check on your printer function

......if you are agreeable to this, open synaptic and see what cnijfilter gives .. mine is shown in screenshot 1 ....... you can see the common and specific programmes are installed for the 3160; (you too need the common and the specific for the 250)

........ next paste this

http://localhost:631/printers/

into a browser: it is the CUPS printing interface only for your computer ...........

tell us what you get for

1) Synaptic and

2) CUPS

[Hexeta]

Evidently the panel I now have is not working in the same way that the original one did.
As you can see from the timings of my posts in the other thread, during the 4.5hrs before seppalta replied, I had already been exploring ways to get back to the original panel....I had delved into all the folders in ".etc" which I felt might have some connection to the panel buttons, and eventually got back to what I thought was "almost" the same panel....except that the "iconify windows" button is not in the Mint colours, and the "Filing cabinet" icon, though it looks the same as before, now opens a menu showing each folder seperately each with the option to open in GUI or Terminal.....before, it just opened my personal folder with icons for each of the sub folders.
Evidently these were not the only differences!
However, by the time seppalta posted, I had discovered how to create items and how to move them around the panel.
His next suggestion was to enter "sudo apt-get install lxpanel" into a terminal, but I was not willing to certainly lose the panel that I had sweated blood to create, with the slim chance that I just might get something equal or better.....with my luck it was likely to be worse, much worse!

Any way, onward and upward, thanks for sticking with me!
Here's the Package manager screen shot evidencing that the printer drivers are installed:-
Oops! sorry it's in Cinema-scope!
Maybe the printer search will be smaller!

search for print driver.png (55.34 KiB) Viewed 371 times

[AlbertP]

For the printer, this looks good - you have driver "Canon MP250 series Ver. 3.40". I don't know how to fix scanning.

[Hexeta]

For the printer, this looks good - you have driver "Canon MP250 series Ver. 3.40". I don't know how to fix scanning.

Hi AlbertP, something is not right with the printer, I can access the printer via "Preferences > Printing" and the printer is shown as default with a PDF printer also shown.
Double clicking the printer icon, I get the Printer Properties for the MP250....That seems OK, but the "Print Self-test Page" button and the "Clean Print Heads" button both result in:-
"CUPS server error"..."There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-document-format-not-supported'."

pdc_2 has sorted the scanner out, that is now excellent!

[pdc_2]

there is an old solution I use when I get linux messages I have never seen before;

for

There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'client-error-document-format-not-supported

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=There+was+an+error ... -supported

and this seems to cover

CUPS server error

I can only make suggestions here; .........Mint 9 is an LTS so should be supported till April 2013;

googling on the error message............... phew;

I have to get away and do some other things

all I can see on synaptic is my common driver is listed ABOVE the specific driver

.......on yours, the MP250 is listed first; I wonder if you can remember if you installed each driver as a seperate item? (Canon always say: common first .........Brother have the same rule for their drivers.........)

Fedora mentions this problem in the googling.......... I suspect we both need to fossick around.....

having shown you how to install the scanner drivers;

the printer drivers are the same method:

so you could just do a complete delete using synaptic; and then a re-install; installing common first; synaptic should be able to find the "raw" packages on your system to re-install

[Hexeta]

Kind of you to stick with me pdc_2.
Sorry I never thought of googling for a solution!
Think I'll do as you suggest and uninstall the print drivers, 'cos I can't recall which was installed first.
Think I understand how to do that via package Mgr. (Edit...Err, no I don't!)
Re-installing presents me with a confusing array of files and I don't know how to "see what's inside" them any ideas which might be the printer drivers?
They are:-
cnijfilter-mp250series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz (got this twice!)
cnijfilter-mp250series-3.40-1-rpm.tar.gz
Googling them shows they are both Printer drivers for the MP250 the rest of the information I don't understand!
searching Package mgr. for them draws a blank in each case.
How do I know which is installed , or which I need?
Also, what is the difference between a ".tar.gz" and a plain old ".tar" both use the tatty old cardboard box Icon!

[pdc_2]

If you have deleted them in synaptic; then type cnijfilter into synaptic, and see if it offers you cnijfilter-common as potential to install;

(I note you said

searching Package mgr. for them draws a blank in each case.

.......if it does, right-click on it, and select INSTALL

if that works, then look for the cnijfilter-mp250series and install that;

......if they don't show in synaptic, ........................

go to your desktop; open the icon for your computer and open the Downloads directory; if you left-click on the deb.tar.gz package, it should offer to open with Archive Manager

let it do that; ......in fact in Mint 13, left-click on the .deb.tar.gz package opens it; one opens that directory, and there are packages and resources;

packages contains the drivers: you need the i386 common driver first; install with gdebi installer;

........... you then install the specific driver the cnijfilter mp250

......... you can always go back and check on the install by querying synaptic ..........................