Canon seem to have trouble generating linux drivers. My MP280 works fine as a printer on my amd64 Kubuntu desktop, but I'm having the devil's own job finding a functioning scanner driver (seemingly NOT provided with the standard printer driver). The driver I have found (cnijfilter-mp280series-3.40-1-deb) attempts install, but then immediately uninstalls with purge - is it i386-only? No, it's dependent on libtiff4, and libtiff5 (as installed) doesn't cut the mustard. Given that most packages are backward-compatible, why the 4 when 5 is in place? I'd suspect that installing 4 would NOT be desirable!?
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Thanks for your comments pdc_2. The puzzling thing is that I too appear to already have all the dependencies installed. However, I have also found a thread on ubuntu forums which has a lot of information:
http://driverbasket.com/canon-pixma-...nload-windows/ -
Windblows driver for mx... NOT Linux, not mp280 and not a thread, just a download page. Issue here seems to have been resolved by brute-force-and-ignorance complete format of / and re-do from start. That was occasioned by lack of password prompt on startup - severe security issue long-unresolved. Skanlite now finds the device, but haven't yet tested full functionality. Cheers all ...Comment
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