Canon MP250 on LinuxMint 10 (Julia)

Yeah, if you think printing in Linux (and scanning) sucks, it isn't true in my case--at least to some extent. I managed to install Canon MP250 (multi-function printer/scanner) in Linux Mint-equipped box in just few minutes.

First download the available driver here (Canon Australia, I can't find it in the Indonesian one). IJprinterdriver is the printing driver, ScanGear is bundled driver and application for the scanner.

I pick the deb packages as I don't really need to care about compiling the source myself. deb -i approach won't work. I have to extract the those two archives, and run the install.sh within the extracted archive.

And it works just fine! :)
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I still have to figure out how to enable Windows client installing Windows-version driver via shared printer over samba, headache this time.