Comments on: Setting up a Canon MX860 Printer on a 64-Bit Linux System

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:15:05 +0000

Thanks Dan, I do have a package with my distro that would cover this. I may try it out later but for now the other driver works perfectly.

By: Dan Halbert

Dan Halbert — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:32:00 +0000

Re #2: "Confused about the 32bit app (/usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijnet) running in a 64bit environment… I couldn’t get it to run my 64bit machine- command not found." Install the ia32-libs package (at least on Ubuntu). For more info, see this post and preceding ones.

By: bert

bert — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:35:48 +0000

Has anyone suceeded in setting up this printer as a *fax* in linux? I was able to get it working as printer and also as scanner (thanks to the downloadable canon drivers and the above HOWTO) but using it as fax from the computer is still a missing feature for me..

At least under windows it also installs a virtual fax printer driver to allow sending faxes from any application directly without paper – anyone got that working in linux also? With CUPS or something similar?

Thanks for any hint.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:02:12 +0000

Used the Gutenprint ppd for IP4600:

http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-MX860

If you set it to Cassette it prints fine from there, despite what the documentation says. I’ll stick with this method for now. Thank you again, this taught me how to get at least the Canon Network driver going to get it recognized (this is my first Canon Printer in Linux, let alone in general).

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:46:07 +0000

Copied everything over but I get this error in cups when doing a test page or printing in general:
“Failed to read side-channel request!”

Found out I had a different package installed that was an older version of the Canon Network driver- I created a new package using the RPM you link to (it’s a different package system, I did this to keep this process a little more clean) and then copied the files over from the other RPM (to appropriate directories- I don’t have lib64 with my distro). I’m using Arch Linux, which I’m sure won’t be of any help, but maybe some else out there got this working.

Oh well, if I get it working at some point I’ll post back here, thank you for the instructions.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:20:02 +0000

I’ll give it a shot. I’ve had some luck getting it recognized, but not able to print yet. Scanner works great though

By: leon

leon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:44:13 +0000

Jay, I don’t know your setup but in a 64-bit environment, the libraries are expected in /usr/lib64. If you have a 64-bit version of CUPS, just copy the files as instructed above.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:50:06 +0000

Confused about the 32bit app (/usr/lib/cups/backend/cnijnet) running in a 64bit environment… I couldn’t get it to run my 64bit machine- command not found.

By: DMAN

DMAN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:30:04 +0000

Thanks for the discussions link

It help me figure out how to set the URI for the wireless

cnijnet:/01-02-03-04-05-06