Installing Printer Driver for Canon LBP7110cw

Hardware Support
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Hello folks,

Brand-new to Linux and struggling to get my Canon colour laser to work. I have downloaded the 64-bit Debian package from Canon USA but that's as far as I have got.

If you can help me, I need EXACT instructions on what I have to do. For example, if I have to enter commands in Terminal, PLEASE tell me to open Terminal first rather than assume that I know exactly what I have to do - in other words, please assume that I have NO knowledge and go from there!

So, I have a compressed folder called 'linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen-18.tar.gz' and after double-clicking this I have an additional folder called 'linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen-18' which, in turn, contains a folder called 'linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen' which contains several folders, one of which is called '64-bit_Driver'.

But that's as far as I get.

I don't know what to do next. There doesn't seem to be any installation program in that folder - except a file called 'install.sh'.

Is that the installation file? If so, what do I do with it? Some research suggests that I have to make this file executable using a command chmod.

I've managed (with some difficulty I might add as Linux is completely new to me) to navigate using Terminal to the folder that contains the compressed folder, namely 'linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen-18.tar.gz' but (using some instructions found on the web), when I try to extract the files in that compressed folder, I get the error message
Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The command I ran was: tar -xzvf linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen-18.tar.gz and then after getting the error I tried: linux-UFRIILT-drv-v500-usen-18.tar

What doesn't make sense in the above commands is the '-xzvf' part - is that correct?

I'm stuck!

Somewhat infuriating as I have tried out Linux Mint 22.3 Zena and I managed without any drama to print (in colour) to the Canon Laser. Doesn't seem to be anywhere near as easy to do in Zorin (and no, I can't remember what I did in Mint to get it to work but I believe I used Software Manager).

Any help gratefully accepted,

Art

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Right-click on the second linux UFRIILT-drv-v500-uken folder (which is in the first unziped folder, then select "open terminal here".
Enter in terminal

sudo ./install.sh

You are asked if you want to install the driver and that it may be possible that other libraries are needed. It is a very old driver.

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Thank you, I'll try that.

Art

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Okay - so managed to print to the Canon Colour Laser okay BUT the colours are very washed out.

In the printer settings >> Advanced, there are settings for 'Toner Save' but there is no explanation of what 'Mode 1', 'Mode 2' or 'Mode 3' means. Having it set to 'Off' produces the wishy-washy colours.

Anybody have any ideas? Compared to the Windows printer driver (which gives lots of options for quality), the Linux printer driver seems to be VERY BASIC.

Art

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i found this on the Linux Mint forum which relates to your printer.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=301035

best of luck Steve ..

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the modes are most likely for amount of toner to use for print try mode 1 see if that helps if not move to mode 2 and so on to get best print