Canon BJC-2100 trouble

ass0ciate · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 63

Hello,

I have a Canon BJC-2100 printer which is not being recognized by Gentoo. I attempted to install it myself but it seems that the drivers for this printer are only available for Windows and Mac. Is there a way to get around this, possibly with a generic driver of some sort, etc...? Thanks in advance.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:24 pm Post subject:

ass0ciate,

Follow the instructions here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml

When you get to
Code listing 4.2: General Usage of foomatic
# grep $printer_model /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/*

You will find that printer id="Canon-BJC-2100". So its supported.

If you don't get this far, its something more fundamental.
Tell us how you connect your printer and what USB or Parallel things are included in the kernel (or available as modules).

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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ass0ciate · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 63

Thanks a lot for your help. I followed the instruction in the "printing-howto" document and the printer works fine.

I do have another question though. My printer seems to be compatible with both the gimp-print and stp drivers. Now, when printing a test page with gimp-print driver installed I realized that it is awfully slow. Is the stp driver any faster? I don't want to re-install the drivers if it's not going to make a difference, I'm fairly new to Linux so once I get something working I prefer not to mess with it too much in fear of rendering it useless again. Thanks again.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

ass0ciate,

I don't know the stp driver. I would stick with gimp-print because that gives you postscript printing, which means you get to be able to scale and rotate anything by arbitary amounts.

Unfortunately, your CPU has to run the postscript engine becasue your pinter doesn't have one. This is why its slow.

I prefer the postscript to speed.
You may be able to tweak the nice factor that the postscript engine runs at but I don't know how.

Regards,

NeddySeagoon
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ass0ciate · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2003 Posts: 63

Ok, thanks. I will try that.