Prerequisites

So, you have to make the installation of your printer (follow the canon manual), connect to your wifi network with WPS (Wifi Protected Setup)

/!\ Note : if your router doesn't support WPS functionnality, you have to setup your printer with the installation cd on windows or MacOS.

System installation

On Fedora, there is tree solutions to configure your printer :

• simply connect through the usb cable, and that's it ! the printer is now added and also works through wifi
• through wifi, you have to launch system-config-printer in your terminal and add the printer
• open http://localhost:631/ (it's the web interface for CUPS) into a browser window and configure your printer from there.

Maybe on other distro you have to download and install canon drivers to add and configure the printer :

• download the IJ printer driver here (deb/rpm or source)
• decompress with tar -xvf
• in the decompressed folder, install with sh install.sh (with root rights) and follow the instructions

Everything works well, except the scan function, if you want to use this functionnality, you need scangear :

• download scangear
• decompress with tar -xvf
• in the decompressed folder, install with sh install.sh (with root rights)

Now you can launch scangear (scangearmp command) and launch a scan through wifi.

To add a scangear icon on your gnome shell menu, you should install alacarte (if you're on Fedora, there is a fix to run Alacarte : just read my ToTW ) which provide a complete and simple menu editor for gnome. Here is my conf for the new entry (the emplacement of scangearmp is : /usr/local/bin/scangearmp ,simply show that with which scangearmp command) :