How to make Canon G 3400 printer and Ubuntu friends?

Question

linux

I have been sitting on Linux for a long time, and I have never felt any particular problems with peripheral devices, even with printers, having once again bought a new printer (Canon G3400), it turned out that the Japanese guys did not write drivers for Linux. Support is silent. I've looked all over the internet and can't find a solution. I am in mourning. Help brothers. OS: Linux Mint 18 x64. Printer Canon G 3400.

Answer 1

I downloaded the drivers on the English Canon website (I needed 64-bit) - www.canon.co.uk/support/consumer_products/products...
The printer is set up. I have Kubuntu 16.04. I unpacked the downloaded archive with the drivers and launched the deb package in the packages folder. Then through the System Settings went to Printers - Add a printer. The printer itself showed up (before that, through an Android tablet, I set up the printer on a router). Then I chose the G3000 series drivers and voila - everything prints.
The scanner is set up too. The link above also has the Scaner Gear MP scanner driver - download the archive with the driver, unpack it and then run the deb package as with the printer in the packages folder. (or feng shui by running install.sh with the sudo sh command) The scanner is installed.
Scanning is started with the scangearmp2 command. The Select Scanner window appears (if our MFP is not there, then click the Update Scanner List button - Canon G3000 series found) Click Ok - the ScanGear MP scanning window appears. Then it's a matter of technology - select the desired settings and scan.

Answer 2

This driver is in the official repositories, I installed it first. Does not work.

Answer 3

Canon has a big problem with Linux support. Even if you set up printing, there will be problems with the scanner.
Officially, this MFP supports anything but Linux.
Try to connect it to the network via wi-fi and install it in linux via IPP/IPPS.

Answer 4

I put everything, the printer sees it. It just doesn’t want to print anything

Answer 5

Hi all! and happy New Year!
Yesterday at midnight I managed to start the Canon G3420 MFP by following the advice given in this post.
Moreover, according to the device passport, the Canon G3420 MFP does NOT support Linux (Ubuntu 20.4) in principle,
and the numbers G 3020 and G 3060 indicated on the instructions - there are driver numbers for Windows .
Previously, a post was made from the ENT https://www.linux.org.ru/forum/admin/15897697
Where there is VICTORY!
So:
following the link
search-sg.canon-asia.com/canon__sg_en__sg_p_en/sea...
from Alexej Simakov,
I downloaded the deb firewood
scangearmp2-4.10-1-deb
cnijfilter2_6.10-1_amd64.deb
and my NEW printer "Hurrah, WORKED!"
All other information on the network that I looked at:
Canon support, Repositories, wood sites, michael-gruz with forks and trunks
sell scangearmp2-3.30-1 and cnijfilter2_5.30-1, which did not work
on my Canon G3420 MFP I repeat, legal Canon claims that according to the device passport, the Canon G3420 MFP does NOT support Linux in principle, and the numbers indicated on the instructions G 3020 G 3060 are driver numbers for Windows . Good luck to all !