On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:18 pm, you wrote: > I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty > with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it > has already been suggested) > http://www.turboprint.de/english.html > > Turbo print is not free and so cannot be bundled with Mandrake. It is > however 'no cost' for personal use. > > For certain printers it will give substantially better print quality than > the 'free' (as in freedom) drivers. For others it is little different. > Your printer is listed as supported by Turboprint. > > > HTH > http://www.turboprint.de/english.html > > (BTW: If your printer manufacturer would write drivers for Linux like they > do for Windows, then you would not have this difficulty) > > derek
Thank you again Derek, It worked like a charm. And in response to your BTW : You are absolutely correct. I realized that it isn't the fault of the O.S., But rather the manufacturer, This much I knew. That is why you have to hack, and edit, and search, And hope that some kind soul has written something for you ( especially when you don't know how to yourself ). Rant coming next : Personally, I think that is a bunch of B.S. Someone ought to write a page ( easily found, say Mandrake.com ) containing manufacturers that support, and do not support users. You could go there before buying something and see what kind of effort was / is made by said builder. Users could input their experiences as well. Have an e-mail link right there for people to fire off at, say Canon, with something like " So I was in the store, mouth watering over your latest ( piece of whatever ). I went home, Brought up Crappyvendorswhosoldtheirsoulstomicrosoft .org, and saw that you don't give a rat's @%% about my $$$$. How unfortunate that you don't think supporting users is in your best interest, Because Epson ( or whoever ) certainly does. Why they were more than willing to have my business, and were grateful for it". I appreciate that people generously give their time, and effort to write drivers for older products, and willingly share them. I do not think that people should have to continue doing so. I do not believe that Mandrake, or Red Hat, or any other distro should have to write drivers, or basically beg vendors for some help. So M.S. holds 90 % of the desktop, But 100 % of their victims are not going to buy product X from Manufacturer Y. ( I just had this conversation with HP two days ago, I don't know what anyone here thinks of HP, I seriously doubt I will be sending any of my money their way in the near future). Maybe start an advocacy of sorts. And when the day comes that builders write the Linux drivers along with the Windows drivers, ( because of popularity ) remember those companies that didn't bother to before it was popular to do so. I could continue, but I'm sure most have hit delete by now.
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