https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683476 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683476#c3 --- Comment #3 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 2011-03-30 12:55:04 UTC --- All the time something changes in free software from version to version. There are of course changes in CUPS and e.g. in Ghostscript and in zillions of other free software packages. Even if a change in CUPS or in Ghostscript or wherever lets Canon's driver no longer work, only Canon could adapt their proprietary driver to work again with the current versions of free software packages and only Canon could check if a change in whatever free software package would be actually a bug and report such a bug to the appropriate free software project because only Canon knows how their proprietary driver works. But I didn't notice any such participation of Canon in CUPS so that it seems Canon does what all GDI printer manufacturers usually do: They make their own stuff isolated only on their own so that nobody else can help if something goes wrong with their selfmade closed-up proprietary stuff. Meaningful /var/log/cups/error_log debug information might show what lets their proprietary driver no longer work. Perhaps there is a chance to adjust something so that their driver works again. A blind guess: See "Various printout failures with CUPS default RIPCache 8m" at http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Printing Does it perhaps help to add in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf a line RIPCache 128m or even up to RIPCache 1024m (the latter only if you have at least 2GB main memory) and restart the cupsd afterwards? I know that some manufacturers label their GDI printer boxes as "supported by Linux" because they provide a proprietary driver. But then - from my point of view (but I am not a lawyer) - such manufacturers must do what they promised on their boxes and actually provide support for Linux in general. I am afraid, I don't know how to contact Canon regarding support for their drivers for Linux. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.