Setting up and using a Canon Pixma Printer, Scanner MFD on Manjaro Linux

I have been running Manjaro Linux on my main home laptop for a change for the last 9 months. Overall, experience has been excellent with almost all the hardware working very well, battery life being very good, wake from sleep being near instantaneous and the laptop being very functional for my workload. I had however not tried to setup printing or scanning from my Canon multi-function wireless printer (MP620) because I was lazy. I finally got around to it and a quick search lead me to this excellent article which lays out all the steps to get the printer setup and running. On Manjaro, you do have to setup the AUR repository first before you can get the cups-bjnp and cnij filter driver. Once that was all done I was simply able to use the KDE printer widget to configure and print from my laptop. Scanning is also automatically enabled as long as you have SANE installed and I installed Simple-Scan (Document Scanner) as the front-end to enable scanning to pdf or image formats. Overall, I’m really impressed with how easy and simple the entire process was to get the device working from the laptop without having to rely on Windows print sharing or some other shared print server. I’m now actually motivated to setup a print and scan server on my home server machine and serve the printer through that instead of dealing with driver hassles on every individual Windows machine in the house. I will post an update if I end up actually doing this.