Re: [tlug] Grateful

[Nick Bikkal <ipod.bikkal@example.com>]

On 05/18/2012 01:45 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Nick Bikkal writes:
>
>   >  part I'm ok. The printer driver doesn't seem to work.I had the problem
>   >  with earlier versions of Linux. Maybe Canon just doesn't cooperate!?
>
> Of the Japanese printer makers, the only one I've ever heard praised
> for their Linux compatibility is Brother.  EPSON's open source driver
> is OK for print quality, but software quality sucks and since it's for
> CUPS, if you have any problems, debugging is a big hairy ball of.
>
> Canon indeed doesn't cooperate; Gutenprint and friends generally don't
> have PPDs for their most recent models (AFAIK Canon has never supplied
> them), and PPDs for the proprietary drivers (eg, Mac) often don't work
> with the open source drivers.
>
> I really don't understand why they don't publish the APIs any more.
> It's not like the quality of manufacturer-supplied printer driver
> software (as software) is anything but poor, and they don't get
> revenue directly from their driver software.
Right. I have CUPS on the machine. I downloaded a driver for an older 
version of Ubuntu I believe. I downloaded a file and don't know how to 
use it now. For now it's just sitting there.

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Nick

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