Installing Canon Color imageCLASS MF8380Cdw Drivers in Ubuntu 12.10

Question

I am trying to install the drivers for a Canon Color imageCLASS MF8380Cdw in a 64-bit installation of Ubuntu 12.10. Since Ubuntu did not contain the drivers, I needed to download the drivers for this printer from Canon's website. Since it only contained 64-bit drivers for an RPM-based distribution of Linux, I needed to use Alien to convert the packages to the .deb format before installing them. However, I am not sure how to proceed from here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I just setup this exact printer on 2 Ubuntu 64-bit 12.04 desktops. Here's the documentation that I wrote, hope this also works on 12.10.

1. Go to the below link and download the Linux driver in ~/Downloads http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/printers_multifunction/color_laser_multifunction/color_imageclass_mf8380cdw#DriversAndSoftware

2. Untar the tar.gz file downloaded at ~/Downloads/Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V250_us_EN.tar.gz

3. Assuming that a 64 bit machine is being used, cd to ~/Downloads/Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V250_us_EN/64-bit_Driver/RPM.

4. Create a symbolic link for 64-bit drivers:

   ln -s /usr/lib /usr/lib64
   

   (NOTE: There may be an existing lib64 directory there already and this will prevent the symbolic link from working correctly. Backup/move the directory to an alternate location before creating the symbolic link)

5. Install alien (if needed):

   sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential
   

6. Convert the RPM files to ".deb"

   sudo alien -k -c cndrvcups-common-us-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
   sudo alien -k -c cndrvcupsuf2us-2.50-1.x86_64.rpm
   

7. Install drivers

   sudo dpkg -i cndrvcups-common-us-2.50-1.x86_64.deb
   sudo dpkg -i cndrvcupsuf2us-2.50-1.x86_64.deb
   

8. Go to System Settings -> Printing and remove the Canon printer (if it's there)

9. Click on Add and expand Network Printer. Select Canon MF8300C (IP_ADDRESS). Click on Forward and then Apply. Click Cancel on the test page screen.

10. Right-click the new Canon printer -> Properties.

11. Where is shows 'Make and Model' press 'Change'

12. Select 'Provide PPD file'

13. Navigate to /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-MF8300C-UFRII-LT.ppd and press Open

14. Select 'Use the new PPD as is' -> Apply

15. Restart the cups service /etc/init.d/cups restart

16. Test the printer.

Answer 2

Thanks to @Earl's answer, I managed to install the driver on my 14.04.

• In his step 1, the link might be obsolete so that it redirects somewhere generic. However, on the redirected site, go to Drivers & Downloads and typing in specific product id (in my case Color imageCLASS MF8380Cdw (that was nicely auto-suggested after typing MF8380Cdw)). There I saw Drivers tab where I found Linux_UFRII_PrinterDriver_V320_us_EN.tar.gz file.
• The tarball above already includes deb, so the rpm conversion in @Earl's post wasn't even needed for me.
• After installing via deb I needed to reboot the OS.

This may work for other Canon's printer versions. HTH.

Answer 3

I've used this post more times than I can count. But good news, this has become much, much simpler (at least with Ubuntu 16.04 and Canon's 3.31 driver package).

Instructions:

1. Download driver package from Canon (link)

2. Extract the package:

   cd ~/Downloads tar -xvzf linux-UFRII-drv-v331-usen.tar.gz

3. CD to the new package directory and run install.sh

   cd linux-UFRII-drv-v331-usen ./install.sh

4. Install your printer using steps borrowed from Earl's answer:

   a. Go to System Settings -> Printing and remove the Canon printer (if it's there)

   b. Click on Add and expand Network Printer.

   c. Select Canon MF8300C (IP_ADDRESS).

   d. Click on Forward and then Apply.

   e. Try to print a test page.