Driver for new Canon ink-tank printers?

Question

I would be tempted by the potential economy of the new Canon ink-tank printers, particularly the Pixma G5050. But as far as I can see, there are no Linux drivers available on any of the usual Canon sites (Europe, USA, Asia...).

I can't find any reference to it on any of the CUPS sites I have tried...

Does that mean no way to use these printers with Ubuntu?

Thanks for any confirmation (or preferably for a solution!).

Answer 1

there are no Linux drivers available

yes there are

canon-europe.com > support > drivers > pixma g5050 > linux 64 bit
IJ Printer Driver Ver. 5.90 for Linux, Release date: 10 September 2019

PPD file is cnijfilter2-source-5.90-1/ppd/canong5000.ppd

in CUPS the driver is Canon G5000 series

in arch-linux the driver package is cnijfilter2

the driver fails to remove temporary files after use
as workaround i use

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# remove canon printer temp files older than x minutes
# run this script as root
minutes=5
# temp_path: folder with the cnij* temporary files
temp_path=/var/tmp # arch linux
#temp_path=/var/tmp/*cups*/tmp # nixos linux
while true
do    
  date    
  find $temp_path -maxdepth 1 -name 'cnij*' -mmin +${minutes} \
    -exec rm -v '{}' \;
  sleep ${minutes}m
done