Canon MG2520 printer scanner

[vinnywright]

well my HP printer finally bit the dust and the wife needed/wanted to scan and post some old photo's ,,,,,,,So off to wallmart I go to for a cheep HP .

No go , all the HP's in stock are high $ one's but this Canon is like 40$ so home it go's

the pinter part worked out the box in the usual way, system settings>printer>add>pick the make and model (it was their) and it prints .

The Scanner however ,,,no go.

So off to CanoI go http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/...xma/index.aspx picked my model a PIXMA MG2520 and got this page after filtering for linux and English

http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/...ge=EN&os=Linux

download the driver

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~/Downloads$ ls cnijfilter-mg2500series-4.00-1-deb.tar.gz

rite click in dolphin and select "extract hear auto detect subfolder" and run the "install.sh" script you will find in the extracted directory

sudo ./install.sh

now you will have 2 printers installed , 1 from the system settings>printer routine and 1 from the install.sh script,,,,,,,,,but still no scanner joy until I installed the

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~/Downloads$ ls scangearmp-mg2500series-2.20-1-deb.tar.gz

(Canon's scanner app) and installed the same way as the driver .
it all works now but the scangearmp app is VARY GTK/win95 ish ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but it dose work.

OK then ,,,,,,,,,,,

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Hmm, so you're saying Canon is supplying at least -some- Linux support...

This world is in decline!

Your missus must be one hell of a person to convince her Linux expert to buy something Canon.

LOL ,,,,,,, like I sead ,,,,,, it was cheep and my check this week was spent before I got it ......

I figured if I couldent hammer it into submition , I could return it claiming it was defective and would only work on windows ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Muahaha

VINNY