-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:12:06 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Nikolaus Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * License : partly GPL, partly non-free > > Description : Canon inkjet printer drivers for CUPS > > > > This driver provides printing functions for Canon inkjet printers > > operating under the CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) environment. > > How does this compare with the Canon driver included in the most > recent Gutenprint upload (5.0.1)? This is a completely > reverse-engineered driver, but it's free software and has improved > dramatically in recent months.
Canon driver has a feature to communicate with printer and take more informations than other free drivers, such as the status of toner. Plus there is a GUI to see printer status easily (though it uses GTK+1). Unfortunately, the quality of Canon's code is totally very poor. In my experience, many bugs hide behind the proprietary side. Their code targets only i386. Although I asked Canon before, they answered they hadn't any plan to open its code or provide for other architectures such as amd64. Thanks, - -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkaerJ0ACgkQQKW+7XLQPLFh7ACgnmvyLicrKCHLeEGacGCOq0pb Z8IAoKq0gsINN3aREDv0dvI7GzHSHfxc =x4Xm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]