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Klavs
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Hi guys,
I've just come from a Mandrake 8.1 installation - and I must admit that I really liked printdrake 
On my mandrake (which I still have access to on another disk) I had cups installed and it had automagically setup my canon bjc-6200 usb printer.
I've installed cups here, but it seems it doesn't support that printer natively..
I've looked at linuxprinting.org - but it looks like there's no short-hand recipe for getting your printer running. Is it really that hard, when you don't use the Mandrake dist?
I was hoping you could contribute with some tips, about how you got your usb-printers to work - and especially if any of you have experience with getting my canon to work
Thank you in advance.
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Klavs
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Solved. Found gimp-print and that it could be emerged. Now it runs perfectly
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metalhedd
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| I Thought I remembered reading that gimp-print was broken? |
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Klavs
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Not for me
Prints perfectly. What should be broken about it?
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pablored
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Gimp-print always worked for me with my Epson C60. Once I found the CUPS local http page to set it up with that is.
My problems were always to do with a lack of WYSIWYG printing. The text output was nothing like the fonts and formatting on screen. Ghostscript / font substitution stuff? Anybody any ideas on this?
My current 'solution' has been to remove my printer and put it in a cupboard. |
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metalhedd
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My current 'solution' has been to remove my printer and put it in a cupboard. |
I had the same solution
if you ask me, printer support is the ONE Thing that is just complete crap under linux. there needs to be one simple solution that works for everything. just plug in your printers driver and every app can print, and it always looks correct.
Don't think this is gonna happen though, the Guru's seem to really like the *nix way of printing. too complicated if you ask me. I've NEVER Succesfully printed anything but a simple text file from *nix. |
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pablored
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LOL.
I bet every linux user has one of these cupboards.
I have an unsupported mp3 player as well, grrrrrrrrrr. Anybody know how to reverse engineer a 'windriver usb' driver to work in the linux world?  Not even a bloody proper driver... The tech support guy didn't even understand what an URB was. <calm>breath</calm> |
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