Just confirming I experienced the same issue with a canon i865 and MP600, and above temp workaround is indeed successful.
By the way, as I was searching for an answer in other places I saw references to a dev/usb folder-if it matters I have no such folder, just usbdevX.X epXX files in the dev folder. I'm an absolute newbie to linux and frankly have no idea of the likely relevance. -- [feisty] USB printers not detected - user "cupsys" not in group "plugdev" https://launchpad.net/bugs/82187 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs