Kyphi,
I am still having problems getting my Canon Series 8100 printer to work.
After selecting it to print it says it is processing and the printer icon appears in the task bar but nothing happens and after a few second it stops and the icon disappears.
I have started from scratch, downloading the driver as you described and extracting etc. but to now avail.
Thanks again for your help CGL
Still Having Problems with Canon Printer
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ColinGLush
Still Having Problems with Canon Printer
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Re: Still Having Problems with Canon Printer
Here are a few ideas. Try looking under the PRINTER panel (System -> Administration -> Printer). This will allow you to review the PRINTER PROPERTIES and see if anything looks odd or is amiss. Can you print the PRINT TEST PAGE from there? Usually if the Test Page fails you'll get some diagnostics that might help.
Canon MG8100series use Canon drivers
Hi Colin; welcome to the forums; we hope you will enjoy using Mint
can I suggest you use the linux drivers that Canon supplies; for its printers;
that way you can:
1) print
2) monitor and adjust your printer settings and
3) use the scanner on the device
PRINTER DRIVER: you will be a) downloading a Canon driver from a Canon website and then b) installing it: .........happy with that........
go here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/cont ... 01902.html and click on the big red DOWNLOAD NOW button and the package is cnijfilter-mg8100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz
you need to paste the commands that I show below; into a terminal and hit the enter key after each paste: OK?
(The terminal is found by going to MENU at bottom-left; clicking on menu; going up about 4-5 icons to the TV-type icon; click on that to open it; to paste, use the top line with the mouse ie start at menu and move to the right to Edit and down to paste
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let's check; after doing the above; what printer listings you have: click on the link to the right and it opens CUPS (linux printing system adminstration) http://localhost:631/printers/
look in the 4th column (the one at the right: called Make and Model and look for the entry that says
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let's get the printer going and then do 2) and 3) I mentioned at the beginning
can I suggest you use the linux drivers that Canon supplies; for its printers;
that way you can:
1) print
2) monitor and adjust your printer settings and
3) use the scanner on the device
PRINTER DRIVER: you will be a) downloading a Canon driver from a Canon website and then b) installing it: .........happy with that........
go here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/cont ... 01902.html and click on the big red DOWNLOAD NOW button and the package is cnijfilter-mg8100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz
you need to paste the commands that I show below; into a terminal and hit the enter key after each paste: OK?
(The terminal is found by going to MENU at bottom-left; clicking on menu; going up about 4-5 icons to the TV-type icon; click on that to open it; to paste, use the top line with the mouse ie start at menu and move to the right to Edit and down to paste
cd Downloads
tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mg8100series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter-mg8100series-3.40-1-deb
..........maybe read through this a couple of times to familiarise yourself; if you do as above, the printer driver will install;./install.sh
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let's check; after doing the above; what printer listings you have: click on the link to the right and it opens CUPS (linux printing system adminstration) http://localhost:631/printers/
look in the 4th column (the one at the right: called Make and Model and look for the entry that says
........then go to QUEUE NAME at the left and see what name it is called there.........because that is the name you want to click on; when you do a trial print .......................CanonMG8100 series version 3.40
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let's get the printer going and then do 2) and 3) I mentioned at the beginning
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ColinGLush
Re: Still Having Problems with Canon Printer
Thank you for your help. I have at last got it to print, not quite sure what I did. Went into Control Centre, printer, and offered to download drivers, which I did, and it worked. But now I want to do it WIFI'ly, cannot find a way of doing it!
Thaks CGL
Thaks CGL