How to remove the old driver for Canon MX870 and install a new one?

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Published on 2012-09-12T07:50:37Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 9:49 UTC
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I am using 12.04. In addition to Canon MX870 printer only shows "Processing" on the status LCD, I'm not sure if I successfully removed the old MX870 driver (I removed it by using Ubuntu Software Center), then I added a new PPA, apt-get update and then:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-gruz/canon-trunk 
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cnijfilter-mx870series
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package cnijfilter-mx870series is not available, but is referred to by another package.   
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted,  or is only available from another source
E: Package 'cnijfilter-mx870series' has no installation candidate

How could I resolve this?

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