![]() I’m pretty happy with this printer, and it’s great to see that Canon are supporting Linux users by providing drivers. Obviously I can’t provide support if you’re having problems with this printer, so this is just to describe what worked for us on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). ![]() Rather annoying, and I haven’t had time to report it to Canon yet. as an example, try printing out the English rules for Tobago (PDF linked from that page). Update: with these drivers the printer does seem to have trouble printing more complex pages – it’ll only print out the top eighth of the page and then give up. printing via USB or scanning via USB, so I can’t comment on what’s involved in getting those to work.) ![]() (There are lots of things that we haven’t simply tried yet, e.g. In the hope that it will be of use to anyone similarly searching in the future, I thought it might be useful to add the following notes about things that definitely work for us. I say “risked”, because the noise levels in the search results when trying to find out whether this printer would actually work were very high. I’ve resisted getting an all-in-one printer / scanner / copier device in the past, largely due to worrying about the driver situation on Linux, but when I found out that my scanner hadn’t survived the trip to Zürich and we were also without a printer, we risked it and bought a Canon PIXMA MP560.
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