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I have a Canon MG2220 printer and am having trouble printing. When I try printing I get the message from Gnome 3, "Printing canceled "Bond Types Inquiry Lab" on MG2200-series".

I have completely setup the printer and installed the drivers according to this web page (and several others) "http://www.doopensource.com/hardware/making-a-canon-pixma-mg2220-print-from-linux/". I installed using the install.sh file and, after it still didn't work, using the two amd64 .deb files in the packages folder as stated on this webpage "How to install Canon printer/scanner drivers (deb.tar.gz file)?", this did not work either. The printer is configured just fine in LibreOffice Writer and in the printer settings, but when I go to print a file, a little window pops up too quickly to read then I get the aforementioned message from Gnome.

Maybe I am just slow and unable to find anything, but I can't find anything on this issue. When I Google it or search it up on a forum or question site, it just brings up how to cancel printing. I am extremely frustrated and now hope that setting up a Windows 7 virtual machine will work, but I do not want to have to do this every time I print, as I will have start up the machine and to create a virtually shared folder and blah blah.

I was also able to get a really unclear screenshot of the window that pops up, in which some text is readable. I just am not quite sure how to post screens if someone could help me with that. Thanks.

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I figured it out. In frustration, I tried looking at the configuration available through the terminal command sudo system-config-printer. From there I right-clicked on "MG2200-series" and "Properties". I then noticed that in the "Make and Model" option was labeled "Gerneric text only printer".

I clicked on "Change..." next to the text and chose "Canon". After following and choosing the appropriate options, I clicked apply and all worked well.

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