Installing Drivers for the Cannon mp250 All-In-One Printer/Scanner

INSTALLING THE PRINTER:

1. ensure printer is plugged in and attached to computer
2. Download mp250 printer driver from: http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100236101.html
3. uncompress file
4. cd into directory
5. run install.sh
6. follow prompts

NOW FOR THE SCANNER:

1. download mp250 scangear driver from: http://support-au.canon.com.au/contents/AU/EN/0100237401.html
2. follow these instructions:
3. Open a terminal and In you terminal copy the following command:

       sudo apt-get install libusb-dev build-essential

This will install some required packages for the scanner

Now we need to get the sane backend, we will do this via git. If you don’t already have git installed on your pc, run the following command in your terminal

       sudo apt-get install git-core

Now we will need to fetch the sane backend by running the following command:

        git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git

This will download the sane backend into the sane-backend folder within your home folder.

Once the download is finished you will notice that it is an uncompiled package, meaning that it will have to be compiled manually. Don’t worry, as it is quite a simple process to compile and install a package. Firstly move into the downloaded folder:

       cd sane-backends

No we can run the configuration of the package with the following command:

      ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

Once the configuration is complete we are now ready to compile the package by entering the following command into the terminal:

       make

This process may take a while

Last step now is to install the package that was compiled in the previous step, note this last step requires the sudo (super user) command :

       sudo make install

The scanner is now installed, however the permissions still need to be set. To set the permissions we will create a new file that will allow usage of the scanner. In the terminal, open Gedit:

       sudo gedit

Once Gedit is opened, copy and paste the following text into the empty gedit file

SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ENV{DEVTYPE}==”usb_device”, MODE:=”0666″
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”,MODE:=”0666″

Save the file as /etc/udev/rules.d/40-scanner-permissions.rules

Your PIXMA MP250 scanner is now installed. You can now go do Applications->graphics and use simple scan or XSane to scan.