Configuration for using the Canon Pixma MX925

Fedora 30

Printing over the LAN

For gnome

login into cups: http://localhost:631 as root

=> add a printer

choose the network printer (Imprimantes réseaux découvertes)

tick shared printer

choose the driver Guteprint simplified

into the graphical interface of gnome for printers, Canon_MX920_series + Guteprint simplified should be already present

LXDE

Aucune config particulière: via l'interface d'admin web => reconnaissance de l'imprimante via l'IP => installation du pilote “Guteprint simplifié”

Print on film for over-head projector

=> Select “Glossy Photo paper” for paper typ.

Scanning over the LAN

Needed packages

$ sudo dnf install sane-backends sane-backends-drivers-scanners

Then xsane and simple-scan can recognize the scanner

Drivers from Canon

Procedure to install the proprietary drivers:

download the archive containing the rpm's from the Canon site

extract the archive

go into the extracted folder of the archive

$ sudo ./install.sh

If there is a dependancy issue:

$ dnf provides libpangox-1.0.so.0
Vérification de l'expiration des métadonnées effectuée il y a 1:47:35 sur Tue May 10 07:46:00 2016.
pangox-compat-0.0.2-6.fc23.i686 : Compatibility library for pangox
Dépôt : fedora
$ sudo dnf install pangox-compat

simple-scan and xsane should allow to select the printer as a scanning source.

other way to scan: “scangearmp” to run the application.

Previous versions

Printing over the LAN

check that cups is started and enabled

install cups-bjnp

connect to the web interface of cups: http://localhost:631/ and login as a user with sudo permissions.

add a new printer. The LAN printer should be present into the selection list.

as driver select Canon PIXMA MX925 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11 Simplified

The printer should be now available.
Issues:
Sometimes the printer gets the status “printer not reachable” => restart CUPS: systemctl restart cups.service

Update 30.06.19

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lpd://IP.of.the.printer/PASSTHRU

as driver select Canon PIXMA MX925 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11 Simplified