I have a Canon MG 3520 printer that works with windows but not Linux.

I have Linux Mint 13 (Maya) XFCE x64, with plenty of RAM and hard drive space.

I downloaded cnijfilter-source-3.10-1.tar.gz from Europe, but the installation instructions were both confusing and I did not get the expected results. Confusing due to several users answering the same question.

I rarely print; currently, if I need to print anything, I send it
to my Windows laptop that is connected to the printer.

THX

I saw this solution that work for me from ubuntu site. It tells you where to download and how to install it. You might need to do some changes (might be the first step of the procedure in installation because this it the folder where you download the file) to make it work for you because the steps he posted are for ubuntu users.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2209879

This is what he posted:

Re: Trouble installing Canon Pixma MG3500 printer driver
so if one was starting from the beginning, I would suggest going to the Canon Asia site

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/?personal

and finding the MG3500 page

http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/c...100550402.html

and what you would download would be cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb.tar.gz

the commands to install it .......

if the Downloads directory is where you download things to ...

........ would be..........

cd Downloads
then

tar -zxvf cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb.tar.gz
then

cd cnijfilter-mg3500series-4.00-1-deb
then

sudo ./install.sh
and that should install it for you;

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what does

dpkg -l | grep cnijfilter
give if you copy and paste it into a terminal? .......for my Canon I get "ii cnijfilter-common 3.60-1 IJ Printer Driver for Linux. ii cnijfilter-mg3100series 3.60-1 IJ Printer Driver for Linux."

.....if you don't get any results, it suggests nothing was installed and you can run the commands I suggested; if you do get results, can I suggest you use synaptic to find the cnijfilter-mg3500series and cnij-common and remove and use the commands I suggest?

This worked for me running Linux Mint 17.1 over a year after the original post.
Thank so much!!!