Can not find printer driver [SOLVED]

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Can not find printer driver [SOLVED]

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It stops here right after the search window opens:
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Re: Can not find printer driver (Canon E4200)

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https://canondriverseries.com/canon-pixma-e4200-driver/
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Re: Can not find printer driver (Canon E4200)

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That looks the correct driver.
But the "Printers" menu could not find that...
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Re: Can not find printer driver (Canon E4200)

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jarkky wrote: Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:05 am That looks the correct driver.
But the "Printers" menu could not find that...
This is just wild, far out speculation on my part, but just maybe, you're supposed to click the link in the post that you replied to, but I have been wrong on occasions.
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Re: Can not find printer driver (Canon E4200)

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You need to download the driver from that site.
Then extract it with Archive Manager.
Inside the unpacked folder will be a file install.sh
You need to open this file in the Terminal (double click on the file & click the Open in Terminal option)
It will be automatically run as sudo, so you will need to provide your password.
Connect the printer when instructed to by the Terminal.

Printer should be good to go.. :D
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Re: Can not find printer driver (Canon E4200)

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It downloaded and it works as I said, but what does not work is the Printer Setup menus...
Main issue though is that it got working is solved, but not the menus.
And the menus or the graphics window is crashing if I try to use it:
PRINTER_DRIVER2.png
I can get the driver and use the cnij, but the system has some other bug in this regards as you can see the results in above image.
The system performance is maybe best with this LinuxMint, but somecases it looks failed with the window managers or somethings
like that. Unfortunately, I have no good idea where that error comes, but looks more to the system related than driver related.
Maybe I should try post this to different forum about the window managers, graphics.
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