Comment 67 for bug 1032456

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Donald Pellegrino (donald-a-pellegrino) wrote :

I was having this problem with a Canon PIXMA MP470 printer (https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/details/printers/support-inkjet-printer/mp-series/pixma-mp470) connected via USB to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems, I applied the following commands:

$ cancel -a
$ lpq
MP470-series is ready
no entries
$ lpadmin -p MP470-series -o usb-unidir-default=true

I hit "Print Test Page" from the Printers settings dialog. The printer test page then printed as expected.