To Carlos, et al: In looking at my manual, which I only have on disk, I can find NOTHING to make Suse and my printer to work together in any fashion. It mentions a Windows and an Apple Mac driver, but it does NOT give any information on what emulators or substitutes will work with it. I have already tried the BJC-600 substitute, to no avail. I have been led to believe that there is a gimp driver that will make it work, but even finding the driver does no good, as there are no installations instructions worth mentioning. I am not a programmer, nor can I mindread software, and need to know what to do to get it installed. I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
* Old Sarge
To Carlos, et al: In looking at my manual, which I only have on disk, I can find NOTHING to make Suse and my printer to work together in any fashion. It mentions a Windows and an Apple Mac driver, but it does NOT give any information on what emulators or substitutes will work with it.
Have you looked at linuxprinting.org?
I have already tried the BJC-600 substitute, to no avail. I have been led to believe that there is a gimp driver that will make it work, but even finding the driver does no good, as there are no installations instructions worth mentioning. I am not a programmer, nor can I mindread software, and need to know what to do to get it installed. I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!!
SUSE does not make a driver and , no, Mandrake does not either. They use the PPD files provided by linuxprinting.org and your printer, BJC-2100 is supported in CUPS, LPD, LRPng, gnuLPR, PPR, PDQ and no spooler. Did you google for linux support for the BJC-2100? try: http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-BJC-2100 You might try to help yourself instead of crying about your lack of programming experience (I have none). If you think that Mandrake is so good, WHY are you looking at SUSE? No one is bending your arm to make you try SUSE. BUT, if you decide to try SUSE and need help, you should ask. But we do not want to hear you knocking something you know nothing about that we like. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:53:03 -0800
Old Sarge
I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!! >:o
Sigh... (1) In Yast2, goto hardware=>Printer and Skip auto-detecting. (2) Choose configure and go through the port selection (3) Pres next until you get to "Manufacturer and Model of Printer" (4) Choose Canon and voila the BJC 2100 is list right there (5) For better results, you can choose "non-YaST2 ppd file" (6) Press browse and go to model and choose Canon (7) Now select "BJC-2100-gimp-print.ppd.gz" Charles -- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source)
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From: Old Sarge
To Carlos, et al: In looking at my manual, which I only have on disk, I can find NOTHING to make Suse and my printer to work together in any fashion. It mentions a Windows and an Apple Mac driver, but it does NOT give any information on what emulators or substitutes will work with it. I have already tried the BJC-600 substitute, to no avail. I have been led to believe that there is a gimp driver that will make it work, but even finding the driver does no good, as there are no installations instructions worth mentioning. I am not a programmer, nor can I mindread software, and need to know what to do to get it installed. I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
Check out the www.linuxprinting.org site. If the printer works they will have info on how to configure it. If the site lists it as a paper weight then it will not work under linux period. Ken Schneider
On 10/29/03 22:53:03, Old Sarge wrote:
To Carlos, et al: In looking at my manual, which I only have on disk, I can find NOTHING to make Suse and my printer to work together in any fashion. It mentions a Windows and an Apple Mac driver, but it does NOT give any information on what emulators or substitutes will work with it.
It should be listed on the DOS section. New printers do not have manuals, mine is older.
I have already tried the BJC-600 substitute, to no avail.
Try the generic epson 24 pin, esc/p type. Just a wild guess. Mind: choose a resolution that your printer really has, or you'll get gibberish. Browse to 'http://localhost:631/' to configure it.
I have been led to believe that there is a gimp driver that will make it work, but even finding the driver does no good, as there are no installations instructions worth mentioning. I am not a programmer, nor can I mindread software, and need to know what to do to get it installed. I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!! >: o
As to that, other people have answered what I would have said. Neither Mandrake nor SuSE make drivers: they both just package what other people develop, for free. That kind of remark on this list will not incline people to help. I'm not a SuSE employee, I'm just writing on my spare time to help others. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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