Canon Pixma G2000 printer driver for Ubuntu

Question

How to install Canon G2000 printer driver on Ubuntu?

I can't find any driver for Linux on Canon official website.

The printer is totally unable to work on ubuntu without a driver, any ideas?

Solution 1

You can get this printer working by installing gutenprint for linux. I wrote detailed instructions on my blog.

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

Solution 2

Setup to download and Installation Canon PIXMA G2000

Download / Installation Procedures for Windows

1. Click the link, select [ Save ], specify "Save As", then click [ Save ] to download the file.
2. The downloaded file will be saved in the specified place in the self-extracting form (.exe format ).
3. Double-click the downloaded .exe file. It will be decompressed and the Setup screen will be displayed. Follow the instructions to install the software and perform the necessary settings.

Download / Installation Procedures For Mac

1. Download the file. For the location where the file is saved, check the computer settings.
2. Double-click the downloaded file and mount it on the Disk Image.
3. Double-click the mounted Disk Image.
4. Double-click the “Setup” file to launch the setup screen. By following the instructions on the screen, install the software and do the connection settings for your printer.