How to install Canon MX922 printer?

Question

I could not find an appropriate driver for the printer. Tried other Canon drivers; a generic Postscript and generic PCL5/6 but when I send a print job, the printer wakes up but does not print. The same happens when using wireless or USB connection. Other Canon printers work just fine.

Solution 1

Install the driver from Canon (ver 3.90). Oddly, it shows up on its Asia site, but not on its US site. This worked for me on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100517002.html

This driver was also linked by this Technosophy blog

Solution 2

Try this.

MX920 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 3.90 for Linux (debian Packagearchive).

MX920 series ScanGear MP Ver. 2.10 for Linux (debian Packagearchive)

Solution 3

The official drivers from Canon are here:

• IJ Printer Driver - http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100517002.html
• ScanGear MP Driver - http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100518302.html

For some reason, these drivers are only available on the Asia site.

Comments

[palswim]

It appears that the drivers now show on the Canon USA site. As a bonus, they are open-source.

[FeRD]

Canon is incredibly screwy. Now they don't again if your OS autodetects as "Linux 64bit" or "Linux 32bit" (as most will); you have to manually change to just "Linux", at which point the software list (debs, rpms, and source; printing and scanning) will reveal itself under "Drivers".

[Jim Parker]

The links above are broken as of 10 Oct 2018. Do you have an update?

[Mitch]

@JimParker Thanks for the comment. Links have been updated.

[Joe C]

I had an older Canon that supported Duplex printing regarding hardware capability. But The best Linux driver I could track down for it did not include that feature. So follow-up question. Does the Linux driver support all the features including Duplex printing?