Canon MG5520 wireless printer

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 08:55 +0100, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 6 October 2014 01:50, Kevin Cummings <cummings at kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> > My volleyball club just bought a new printer.
> >
> > When I plugged my laptop into the USB cable, CUPS tried to auto-install
> > it, but it failed.  I saw multiple USB connects and disconnects in the
> > log.  The last log entries in every series were disconnects.  The pop-up
> > window claiming it was installing never went away, it just sat there.
> >
> > Next step, I googled the printer linux support, and found the canon
> > linux print drivers.  I downloaded
> > cnijfilter-mg5500series-4.00-1-rpm.tar.gz from Canon, untarred it, and
> > ran the install.sh script.  After it finished, I can now print to the
> > printer via USB cable.  (MG5500USB printer added to my system.)
> >
> > Next step, I made sure the printer was connected to the correct wireless
> > network.  When I had, I can now print to the printer via AirPrint from
> > my iPhone.
> >
> > Final step, I can't seem to make my laptop see the printer wirelessly.
> > How can print to this printer without plugging into the USB cable?
> 
> Which version of Fedora and what desktop? I'm asking because I've used
> one of the MG series over wifi before with Fedora but there were
> issues with firewall policy and I think that was rather rapidly
> changing (and it needs to couple with whatever autodetect is used).
Be sure to open the firewall for UDP port 8611, so autodetection works.
And you need to install cups-bjnp so CUPS knows how to talk to the
printer...