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Posted: **Thu Dec 05, 2024 10:57 am**

ghunter wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 8:29 pm Hi the printer list showing at post 7 does not appear to show gutenprint.

Have you installed gutenprint?

I have a different canon but the driver for mg6100 is there

by using the web browser method..as per post 6 ...with avahi working it should discover a networked printer

Just tried that and nothing happened, unfortunately.

Posted: **Thu Dec 05, 2024 7:46 pm**

thanks for trying lets clean up logs and get a new set of logs to review please.

forgive me for not knowing how good you are at editting using root powers so I do this by CLI
Become full root with

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sudo su

Now do all the rest as full root please.

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rm -rf /var/log/cups/*  # deletes all old logs
sed 's|LogLevel warn|LogLevel debug|' -i /etc/cups/cupsd.conf # changes logging to debug mode
less /etc/cups/cupsd.conf | grep debug  # outputs 2 lines with last line MUST show you have set logging to debug mode....LogLevel debug
# now we need to restart cups and what the heck avahi as well to recognise our new logging setting
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart  # OUTPUT must show Restarting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon
/etc/init.d/cups restart # OUTPUT must show Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd

KEEP your root terminal open for step 5

2) now open your web browser to
http://localhost:631/admin

click the button Add Printer .....do NOT click on find Find New Printers.....we are trying to get cups to auto detect with wireless a discoverable network printer

web browser popup must be allowed.....input root INTO username and root password INTO password box

Depending on whether you a cable connected as the same time....affects below

3) Report if you see your printer under
Local printers......Discovered network printers and other network printers

4) Let continue assuming your wifi printer is detected?
Go thru the prompts until your web browser TAB changes to show printer under Printers

5) Now attempt to print a small txt file and go to /var/log/cups using root terminal
we need the log but we also need it a text file that can be uploaded somewhere as a txt file....its too big to attach to this forum IMHO

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cd /var/log/cups

# The access_log is not useful so we ignore it for now.....instead we will convert debug log into a txt file by
cp error_log /tmp/cups.txt
chmod 666 /tmp/cups.txt  # makes txt file read writeable to all local users
ls -hal  /tmp/cups.txt  # show how large file is......likely to be over 2 Mb

EDIT change not to now
You can now close the root terminal
You can now view your txt file into your web browser by clicking on

file:///tmp/cups.txt

The problem is free txt sites limit size YMMV to 2Mb....but free hosting sites do not have that limit.

Can I suggest you do not need to join but click to upload at
https://app.mediafire.com/myfiles
copy the link and share it here

then we can download the linked file as its only a txt file and peruse it.
I hope I have not broken any forum rules in mentioning a file hosting site.

good luck

Posted: **Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:38 pm**

Sorry for the late response everyone.

Had an issue with my new laptop's touchpad crapping out, so I had to go back and exchange for a working one of the same exact laptop, then re-install dual boot and everything else.

Anyway, decided to retire the old Canon after 15 years. It was a good run, but just became too old, didn't want to run properly any longer, and obviously the drivers being obsolete and trying to keep them working with newer hardware was just becoming too challenging, so I purchased a new Brother MFC-J1010DW and all installed well and was up and running on all computers very quickly.

Thank you to all that tried helping. I do appreciate it.
Happy Holidays!

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