I had Solus installed and installed my newly purchased Canon PIXMA MG3029 printer with the MG3000 series driver Ubuntu system recommended. The power light flashed when you sent a job to the printer, but nothing ever came out. I installed then Ubuntu 17.04 standard and reinstalled the printer, hiwever with the same result as Solus. Any suggestions or tricks you may have to have me become "printer friendly"?
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so if you were to install the drivers that Canon supply, you would start here http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100839901.html and click to download and please SAVE what will be cnijfilter2-5.40-1-deb.tar.gz
I would suggest at this stage opening your PRINTERS folder and deleting any icons there; as you say they do not work ...
It should end up in your Downloads folder by default. Open a terminal and paste in one by one the commands below; right-click on the text prompt in the terminal to see the PASTE option ..
cd Downloads
tar -zxvf cnijfilter2-5.40-1-deb.tar.gz
cd cnijfilter2-5.40-1-deb
./install.sh
and that will run the install script and should set up a printer driver for you;
This tutorial worked for me. After installing some libraries, it points to this Canon site for package downloading. I used the Debian
package and it self installed and was up and running immediately.