Comments on: The Canon PIXMA MP560 on Ubuntu

By: vasek

vasek — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:14:19 +0000

thanks a lot for this guide, it helped me to get the stuff working.

By: james

james — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:22:34 +0000

this post is amazing helped me get the printer installed and working. I just love it how companies are supporting linux more and people like you help trouble shoot issues like this to get it working if something doesnt quite work properly out of the box.

cheers, james from australia

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:29:43 +0000

Holy submarine sized monkey brains! It works!

You sir are a superstar. No offence to not having faith, but I’ve tried ‘tutorials’ in the past for installing printers on linux and they have never worked. This is truly amazing.

Thank you so much! I can now avoid Windows for __almost__ everything :-) :-)

By: mark

mark — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:24:45 +0000

Sorry, this may well be too late to help with your question, but you can edit the install.sh file with any text editor, for example:

gedit install.sh

By: mark

mark — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:19:19 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Fergus. I’ve added a section on scanning over wireless, which I’ve finally got around to trying, and worked fine on Natty.

By: maxounette

maxounette — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:10:18 +0000

Hi
Thank you , for your great explanations, I googled the error & it brought me here,
Only thing is I dunno nothing about ubuntu, & I don’t know HOW YOU EDIT the install.sh & change the rpm version to rpm no thank version, do I do that on the terminal? if so what is the comand line?
Thank you 4 your help sorry to ask a stupid question.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:01:52 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. I gave up getting it to work months ago. Glad I happened upon your blog.

By: Nils Geylen

Nils Geylen — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:07:16 +0000

Great, thanks. Googling that error led me here and it solved things for my Pixma 270 instantly.

What is remarkable is that it did work before on previous installs of Ubuntu; now on Natty Beta it didn’t.

Another thing learned.

By: Alex M

Alex M — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:00:42 +0000

Awesome job man. Thanks a lot for the info, it worked instantly from an i386 and a 64 machine. I had upgraded to 10.10 and forgot about all this printer mess from the last time. I found your instructions useful twice now.. lol. Thanks again!!

By: harry

harry — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:57:53 +0000

Awesome!

Instructions are crystal clear and very damn easy to follow. Successfully installed the printer drivers and able to take print outs.

Thanks a bunch! :-)

Harry