At 02:03 AM 11/2/2006 +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.
Cheers, Carlos E. R. Hello, folks--
I was the one who started this thread, writing about the Brother HL-2040. It seems that it is now "recognised," but 9.3 thinks it is a CD drive! I know there is a configuration routine, somewhere in the matrix, but I only found it once, and can't seem to get back there. Please advise! (I'm running it on USB--my first and only experience of USB in any OS. But the II indicated that there would be a very simple install using USB, so I did it.) How do I tell Suse 9.3 that what it thinks is a CD, is really a printer? Is there somewhere a printed copy of the complete matrix of the things you get when you do a "This (was 'My') Computer" or a SUSE Green Ball from the bottom left? Windoz is no better, but really no worse. Finding configurations, or setups, is just a new version of that old CPM routine, that started: "You are in front of a small shed. When you go inside, you find a stairway leading down into the ground. At the bottom are a whole lot of twisty little tunnels." Or something like that. (Shows my age, I suppose.) I think it was called "Wolfenstein." --doug --doug