Canon MX330, Ubuntu 20.04 (after upgrade from 18.04) - Printing not working - Scanning Does Work
Recently upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04 and found that I can no longer print. Printer is Cannon MX330 via USB. Scanning via Document Scanning tool works fine.
Found a post - Canon MX490 Ubuntu 20.04 : printing problemFollowed the instructions but still same issue, no printing but scanning works.
Has anyone seen similar and able to correct it.
Thanks Jas
12 Answers
Printing is supported by printer-driver-gutenprint. It shouldn't be too difficult to set up a print queue from (say) localhost:631, as described here.
Also, ippusbxd is suboptimal. Although your Canon is too old to use it, it is probably best to keep it off your system.
Personally, I would do the following to set up a print queue:
lpinfo -m | grep MX330. This gives you a PPD to substitute. It begins gutenprint and ends with expert.
Now you need a URI. Use lpinfo -v and read the page given in the link above. Now substitute for the PPD and URI in lpadmin -p PRINTQ -v "URI" -E -m PPD. PRINTQ can be any name you want to give to the queue. How's that?
This is what I did to get the Canon MX330 printing again under 20.04.
At this link -
Downloaded Linux - Debian Version 3.1
This file -
cnijfilter-mx330series-3.10-1-i386-deb.tar.gzsaved to Downloads. Extract the file to foldercnijfilter-mx330series-3.10-1-i386-deb.At this link - . This is PPA (Personal Package Archive) for Canon printers.
Ran these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk sudo apt-get updateThis will complain about the repository not being secure. To correct this Modified the file
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/Original file
deb focal main # deb-src focal mainUpdated file
# deb focal main # deb-src focal main deb trusty main deb-src trusty mainUpdated the file
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01-vendor-ubuntuadded this line at the end:Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories "true";Ran the previous "sudo" commands again. The following error noted on the "update" command:
W: GPG error: trusty Release: The following signatures were invalid: 84E550CD36EC35430A66AC5A03396E1C3F7B4A1D W: The repository ' trusty Release' is not signed. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.Ran command
sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mp550seriesThen ran the install.sh located in the Directort Downloads/cnijfilter-mx330series-3.10-1-i386-deb
sudo ./install.shExecution command = sudo dpkg -iG ./packages/cnijfilter-common_3.10-1_i386.deb dpkg: will not downgrade cnijfilter-common:i386 from 3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1 to 3.10-1, skipping Execution command = sudo dpkg -iG ./packages/cnijfilter-mx330series_3.10-1_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package cnijfilter-mx330series:i386. (Reading database ... 227623 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../cnijfilter-mx330series_3.10-1_i386.deb ... Unpacking cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 (3.10-1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cnijfilter-mx330series:i386: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 depends on libtiff4. dpkg: error processing package cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 Execution command = sudo dpkg -P cnijfilter-common dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of cnijfilter-common:i386: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 depends on cnijfilter-common (>= 3.10). cnijfilter-mp550series:i386 depends on cnijfilter-common (>= 3.90). dpkg: error processing package cnijfilter-common:i386 (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: cnijfilter-common:i386Need to install cnijfilter-common
sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-commonReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done cnijfilter-common:i386 is already the newest version (3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1). You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 : Depends: libtiff4:i386 but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).Ran
fix-broken:sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 The following packages will be upgraded: cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1,028 kB of archives. After this operation, 502 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y Get:1 trusty/main i386 cnijfilter-mx330series i386 3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1 [1,028 kB] Fetched 1,028 kB in 2s (567 kB/s) (Reading database ... 227821 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../cnijfilter-mx330series_3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 (3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1) over (3.10-1) ... Setting up cnijfilter-mx330series:i386 (3.90-76~ubuntu14.04.1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.2) ...Finally go to the URL localhost:631 .
- under Administration select FIND PRINTER
- select Canon_MX330_series
- select Canon
- for model selected Canon MX330 series Ver.3.90
- once added under MAINTENANCE selet PRINT TEST PAGE
Clean up the repositories.
Remove the line - Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories "true"; from /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01-vendor-ubuntu
Open SOFTWARE and UPDATES
select OTHER SOFTWARE
locate the "michael-gruz/canon-trunk" and click REMOVE, cache will be updated
optionally run apt-get update
