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Wireless Printer Setup

Wheelzz
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Hello all,

 

I am trying to setup my Canon Pixma MG3520 to work with wireless printing, and it's not going so well.

 

I managed to get the wireless driver for the printer to install successfully. It won't do so unless it detects the printer. However, the printer does not appear on my system and is not detected when I try to search for printers.

 

The printer seems to broadcast a canon_ij_setup wireless network that is unsecured. What do I do with this? Am I meant to connect to that to print? 

PC: Ryzen 5 2600 // 16 GB Corsair 3200 // MSI RX 580 8 GB // 500 GB WD Blue M.2 (sata) // Silverstone Raven RVZ03B // Fedora 33

LAPTOP: i7 5700HQ // 16 GB Kingston 1866 // GTX 970M // 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 // 1 TB HDD // Windows 10

ETC: (2) Dell U2515H (2560x1440) // Corsair K63 // Logitech G603 // FiiO E10 // Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO (250 ohm) // Audio Technica ATH-M60x

 

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Have you tried physically connecting the printer with a USB device? It might detect the printer if you connect it that way first.

Yes I have, and it works fine via USB without any additional configuration beyond the drivers I installed for wireless operation (based on the prompts of how you are connecting to the printer in the driver installation menus), but it still does not detect the device in wireless mode.

 

Oddly enough, I tried with my mom's laptop that runs Ubuntu, and it runs just fine in both modes after quickly repeating the setup for both USB and network. The driver was from the asia canon website and not even for the exact model (3570 while I have 3520) Although I doubt they actually use different drivers as the deb driver is labelled as 3500 series.

PC: Ryzen 5 2600 // 16 GB Corsair 3200 // MSI RX 580 8 GB // 500 GB WD Blue M.2 (sata) // Silverstone Raven RVZ03B // Fedora 33

LAPTOP: i7 5700HQ // 16 GB Kingston 1866 // GTX 970M // 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 // 1 TB HDD // Windows 10

ETC: (2) Dell U2515H (2560x1440) // Corsair K63 // Logitech G603 // FiiO E10 // Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO (250 ohm) // Audio Technica ATH-M60x

 

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Did you connect to the canon_ij_setup? That is probably the wireless driver the hooks the PC and the printer.

 

Ubuntu and other Linux flavors usually come packed with a ton of open source and pre-installed drivers for most devices which is why it works fine on your mom's laptop.

This network seems to have disappeared. Would this connection be parallel to the regular network connection?

 

As for Ubuntu, it wasn't a pre-installed driver, I pulled a driver from Canon's Asia site (deb driver) and it worked once I navigated to that dir in terminal and installed it with sudo ./install.sh. I then repeated it quickly to install the wireless version (from prompts in the terminal) 

PC: Ryzen 5 2600 // 16 GB Corsair 3200 // MSI RX 580 8 GB // 500 GB WD Blue M.2 (sata) // Silverstone Raven RVZ03B // Fedora 33

LAPTOP: i7 5700HQ // 16 GB Kingston 1866 // GTX 970M // 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 // 1 TB HDD // Windows 10

ETC: (2) Dell U2515H (2560x1440) // Corsair K63 // Logitech G603 // FiiO E10 // Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO (250 ohm) // Audio Technica ATH-M60x

 

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After re-installing the drivers the printer seems to be working on that system as well. Thanks for the help though!

PC: Ryzen 5 2600 // 16 GB Corsair 3200 // MSI RX 580 8 GB // 500 GB WD Blue M.2 (sata) // Silverstone Raven RVZ03B // Fedora 33

LAPTOP: i7 5700HQ // 16 GB Kingston 1866 // GTX 970M // 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 // 1 TB HDD // Windows 10

ETC: (2) Dell U2515H (2560x1440) // Corsair K63 // Logitech G603 // FiiO E10 // Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO (250 ohm) // Audio Technica ATH-M60x

 

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