On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 02:03 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 19:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to get good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well, so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course, next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer predates my linux times.
I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available. I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.
Yes, they work. But the results I got with my 4000 were prety bad and I was unable to get it to work well enough: I had to boot windows to get good prints. I wrote here (thread: Horrible print quality, Jul 2004), but finally I gave up and paid.
I think I have somewhere a scanned sample print to show what I got that I could email you if you are interested (300K). It seems like a broken dithering algorithm.
Perhaps the 4200 and up do work, dunno. My 4000 didn't.
If I get the time and energy, I'll have a look into the PPD file, which I think is basically the same for the 4000 and the 4300/4400. I've been using a 4300 for a good five years and the 4400 for a good three years +/-.