Installing Canon Pixma MP287 Driver on Ubuntu 10.4

Installing Printer Driver

1. You can download PIXMA MP280 here

2. Extract file cnijfilter-mp280series-3.40-1-deb.tar.gz

3. Install in your terminal with this command 

    cd /[location for your extract file]

    sudo ./install.sh

4. Turn on and connect your printer then press enter

5. Select your printer connection

6. Set your printer name ( default MP280 )

7. Set to default printer ( default yes )

8. Test your printer

Installing Scanner Driver
1. Download driver here
2. Extract and install like printer driver above
3. Open Terminal and install libusb-dev and build essential with this command

    sudo apt-get install libusb-dev build-essential

4.Run this command

  sudo apt-get install git-core
  git clone git://git.debian.org/sane/sane-backends.git

5.After that move on to sane-backends directory

  cd sane-backends

6.Run the configuration with this command

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

7.Run sudo make and then sudo make install on terminal

8.Open gedit or another text editor then write this

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

  SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”,MODE:=”0666″

   and save this file in your /etc/udev/rules.d directory with the 

   name 40-scanner-permissions.rules 

9. Test your scanner with Scanner Utility, you can search in synaptic