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I just bought this new printer Canon PIXMA G2000, and I can't find any driver for my Ubuntu. I research this printer and this is the first canon printer with ink-tank.

How long it will take usually for canon to release an official driver for linux?

I try using the printers app and on dash home, and search for printer driver to download. But, no matches found.

Is there any universal driver for canon printer on 16.04?

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  • ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/12/… (same for 16.04)
    – user589808
    Jan 19, 2017 at 6:50
  • I can't find the exact series of my printer on the synaptic, any idea which series should i use that similar to pixma G series? Thanks
    – Yosua Partogi
    Jan 19, 2017 at 9:10

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The options for a person trying to install Canon's G1000 and G2000 are limited to the following:

  1. Compile and install gutenprint. Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers for linux. It works just like native drivers and supports cups based printing.

  2. Buy a third party linux printing driver and utility, called Turboprint. It too has excellent support. An added bonus is a GUI for checking printer spooling, and configuring varied options like Paper type, resolution etc. The cost of an individual license is upwards of $34.

If you decide to go with the first solution, the steps include the following. My system is a Ubuntu Xenial 64bit.

First you need some developmental headers. So add to your /etc/apt/sources.list, the following lines if you dont have them. Modify these according to your version of Linux(Debian/Ubuntu):

deb http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

Update your sources and install the build dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get build-dep cups-common gimp-gutenprint libgutenprint-dev
sudo apt-get install build-essential

Now download the source release package for gutenberg (version >=5.2.13) from Sourceforge. 

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/gutenprint-5.2/5.2.13/gutenprint-5.2.13.tar.bz2/download
tar xvf download
cd gutenprint-5.2.13

Alternately clone the git repo.

git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/gimp-print/source gimp-print-source
cd gimp-print-source

Now configure, make and install.

./configure
make 
sudo make install

Source: My blog post

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  • ' Thank you! This works fine! ' And not only for Ubuntus 16.04 and 16.10, but in Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty" !
    – Vedavrat
    Aug 29, 2017 at 19:12
  • Great, thanks for the solution, droidzone. Though I need to install dev dependencies as well - sudo apt-get install libcupsimage2-dev libcups2-dev.
    – Kirill Fedyanin
    Mar 7, 2018 at 15:16

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