<SOLVED>Driver for Pixma MP210 required.

[Biran Jackson]

Can someone tell us where to find and download the required driver please? SOLVED

[xenopeek]

You have some problem using Google Third hit on Google search for that: https://sites.google.com/site/thehopefu ... ixma-mp210

[pdc_2]

Xenopeek has pointed you in exactly the right direction; he is the real expert on these things but the Canon Australia site seems to have got rid of some older drivers: so what you want doesn't seem to be there; Canon only supplied 32bit drivers in 2007 when the device was first sold;

Canon Europe seem to have a copy http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/Consumer ... e=download

and what you download is MP210_debian.tar and if you download and save it (it should end up in your Downloads directory)

are you happy to copy and paste some commands into a terminal? and hit the enter key after each paste .. (use the menu at the top and use the mouse )

cd Downloads

tar -xvf MP210_debian.tar

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.80-1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-mp210series_2.80-1_i386.deb

that should install the driver;

if you then restart CUPS with

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

can you print now? (the above will only work with a 32bit system)

[Biran Jackson]

Thanks for the detail pdc.
We did that, but got stuck at the third entry into terminal. Please see the link to the screenshot below.

http://imgur.com/nXfoDHP

Brian.

[pdc_2]

Hi Brian; I see this printer is 7 years old; so it predates the GFC; and lots have changed since then;

so it is saying

libcupsys2

is missing

libcupsys2 morphed into libcups2 ; it is installed our Mint: you may well have it on yours;

the problem is: the debian package is designed to be helpful; so it tells the system (assuming we are in 2007) what it needs; and where to get them;

now: some of these packages have been superseded; as per here; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1273363

I can attempt a rebuild of the package for you if you want; if you send me a PM (jprivate message) on the forum and we can exchange emails; I don't think I can post an edited file here on the forum

I think gutenprint might well work:

[pdc_2]

I didn't get any PM messages Brian

a Michael Gruz maintains a repository of Canon drivers; I suspect he may edit the older ones; (so they don't look for outdated packages);

the advice from here is http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/02/ins ... linux.html first unplug your printer

then

the commands to use his system are:

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

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mp210series

then plug your printer in ........... After the Canon printer driver is installed, connect the Canon printer to your computer and turn it on. Your printer will automatically be detected by the system.

The printer ready to use!

[pdc_2]

gosh;

7 years is a long time in the computer world;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

the first generation iphone was released then;

the opensource driver gutenprint may work;

http://localhost:631/admin

click on the above link; click ADD PRINTER and the password is ROOT as username and enter your SUDO password ..........as the password.............
and follow the commands: you want to use the driver gutenprint; check you have it installed

[pdc_2]

so you have got gutenprint installed; and it does not work; if you can stump up the cash, the 2100 series from canon is on sale in many countries at about $US40 or so; it installs easily and well; we have one of the 3100 series and it does duplex