Canon PIXMA MP480

Canon PIXMA MP480
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Product:Color Inkjet Photo Printer/Copier/Scanner
Price:$151.95
Availability:In Stock
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It's the perfect blend of performance and convenience. This versatile All-In-One lets you print beautiful, long-lasting 4 x 6 inch borderless prints in about 45 seconds. A new 4-color ink system ensures vivid colors and bold, black text. Your copies will be truer to the originals, and scans of photos or forms will yield results of up to 2400 x 4800 color dpi resolution.

PIXMA MP480 Photo All-In-One Printer:

  • 2400 x 4800 color dpi resolution.
  • The combination of new inks and media deliver exceptional beauty and longevity.
  • Before printing, preview and fine tune your images using the color LCD display.

Powering up your printer is now faster than ever. After pressing the power button, you can begin inputting commands in approximately 2 seconds. View larger

Want to print photos without a computer? Easy. Just insert a memory card into a built-in card slot, preview and enhance images on the 1.8 inch TFT display, then print! You can also print directly from a compatible digital camera or camera phone even a Bluetooth device via the optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface. You can keep the paper output tray closed when not printing; it opens automatically when printing begins. The Quick Start feature lets you power up in less than 3 seconds, and Auto Photo Fix corrects red-eye and enhances your images.

ChromaLife 100+
The combination of new inks and media deliver exceptional beauty and longevity.

High Performance Ink Cartridges
The two genuine Canon ink cartridges (one B&W, one multi-color) contain specially formulated inks for the highest possible quality. They’re easy to use and to replace as needed.

Preview Then Print
Before printing, preview and fine tune your images using the color LCD display.

Smart Scanning
The new Auto Scan feature detects the type of original you’re scanning — a photo, business card, personal notebook or form — then automatically scans and saves the image with the appropriate settings.

Quick Start
Powering up your printer is now faster than ever. After pressing the power button, you can begin inputting commands in approximately 2 seconds. Full operation is even enabled in a shorter time now too.

Print from Memory Cards / Cameras
Want to print photos directly from a compatible memory card without using your computer? Just insert the card into a built-in slot, select images on the LCD display, and print! You can also print photos directly from your digital camera/DV camcorder.

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USBPerfectPerfect
Recommended
Aug 7th 2011
By an Ubuntu 10.04 user

Driver instructions:
In order to install it you must download Canon's drivers for the MP490 (which seems to not be sold in the US, but is in Europe)

product page: http://www.canon-europe.com/For_Home...t/PIXMA_MP490/

driver page: http://software.canon-europe.com/products/0010754.asp

Download both Debian Linux Print Drivers (3.2), and ScanGear for Linux (1.4).

Open up both of these .tar files, and then open up the archives in them that look like *-mp490series-1.40-1-i386-deb.tar.gz. In each of these you will find a folder called packages that have two .deb files that you need to install to get this printer and scanner working.

There will be four files between the two files that you will need to install:
printer:
cnijfilter-common_3.20-1_i386.deb
cnijfilter-mp490series_3.20-1_i386.deb

scanner:
scangearmp-common_1.40-1_i386.deb
scangearmp-mp490series_1.40-1_i386.deb

Now you just need to use dpkg to install each of these four files. (For the scanner to work you will need to have gimp installed, you can do that with apt-get or synaptic)

It's slightly more complicated if you are running a 64-bit distribution of ubuntu. First you have to make sure you have the ia32bit libraries installed: apt-get install ia32-libs
and then you just force the architecture: dpkg --force-architecture -i *.deb
What doesn't work:
I've tried both the scanner and the printer, there might be other minor features that don't work
PrinterScanner
USBPerfectPerfect
Recommended
Aug 7th 2011
By an Ubuntu 10.10 user

No driver installation required
Comments:
I just plugged mine in and it worked. Scanning and printing works fine with Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
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Comments:
Driver available at Canon Europe website. Works perfectly.

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