Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Friday 2004-07-02 at 09:26 +1000, Graham Smith wrote:

> The first bit of advice I would give is not to buy Canon. The company does not 
> support open source, therefore you are relying on someone reverse engineering 
> the window drivers.

True, I concur with that; but:

 1) I bought it in 1995, before I started with Linux. This printer worked
    in plain Dos. It is similar (compatible) to current models of the same
    series (4300 etc), and I do have some programming information for it
    published years ago.

 2) Before CUPS, it worked much better (SuSE 7.3).

 3) The gimp-print driver prints much better than the foomatic.

 4) This is a bug, has nothing to do on knowing how to send info to the
    printer. It has to do with the internal rendering, previous to
    sending, a big error somewhere.

 5) Only photos are printed wrong, text and other images (not dithered)  
    are ok. Very good, in fact.


You really would have to see the page to see what I mean as "horrible".

> That said have you looked at 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-BJC-4000

I think I did many months ago. But the info seemed to me so complicated
(to build cups and all from scratch) that I fleed in haste.

I'll have another look...


> Maybe your best bet is to try out TurboPrint 
> http://www.irseesoft.de/linux/english.html

Ugh.

:-?

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson