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  • Canon printer prints double sided "upside down"

Thanks @Axios I will have a good read but for the few times I print front and back it might be easier to just re-insert the page from the rear tray after printing the first page.

Further investigation shows it works in Win 11, Zorin, Android Print but not Solus. Zorin finds and discovers the printer correctly with driverless config. In Solus when I use that config I get no destination.

    • AAxios

      • Post #23
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      banger If usb is hooked up unplug it and try setting up.

      Wonder if they want a bug report on it?
      Thats what mine would do when I just had usb connection config never could make it work so i unplugged
      the usb and config it for network (only) and everything worked never plugged usb in again.

      Note: But thats the point of driverless printers if it dont work its kinda useless.

          • Bbanger

            • Post #24
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            Axios If usb is hooked up unplug it and try setting up.

            Tried that but couldn't add the printer Cup admin said unable to find PPD file for printer, probably because it is a recent printer. Still works on IPP Everywhere tho.

            Where would I raise an issue?

            Edit: Found the issue page there are already several issues for Canon AIO Printers including cnijfilter2 which has been approved but needs a maintainer. I think this would solve my problem.

              Make sure airscan is installed.


              Make sure you highlight IPP or driverless and then select add printer.
              you dont need PPD file as it is created for you because it is driver less.
              This is what I ended up with and it worked. (network connected)
              It should work I am using budgie

                • Bbanger

                  • Post #26
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                  Axios Make sure you highlight IPP or driverless and then select add printer.
                  you dont need PPD file as it is created for you because it is driver less.

                  IPP works fine just the driverless gives me an error about no PPD found. The PPD is not there because it is not in the Cups database. Zorin doesn't do this. The fix for this is to build cnijfilter2 from Canon but I dont have the skills to build it as there are no instructions.

                  There is also a Solus issue about canon and cups maybe it is the AIO. Will have another look.

                  https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/1384

                  https://github.com/getsolus/packages/issues/2419

                    • AAxios

                      • Post #27

                      If I understand it right no matter if it be everywhere or driverless the same program generates the PPD for it
                      so in my mind either should work.
                      That being said Driverless If I understand prob supports more features for printer so maybe thats whats
                      causing issues.
                      Driverless appears to be newer over Everywhere.

                      Anyways will leave it be sorry if I didnt help much.

                      Issue about page upside down opened.