Regrettably my Canon BJ-200 printer (using Berkeley lpd) gave up after I changed the A4 paper size, since it was clipping the bottom lines, to 'letter.' Then I got a Canon ip1500 photo printer for $49 (!) and that won't print in SuSE 9.2 even though CUPS and YAST automatically recognize it and they say it is 'ready.'
Printing in LINUX is not easy at all. I do not care how brilliant our coders in 'C' are. If the product cannot be delivered to the user easily it is NO GOOD. I say this as a user and friend of Linux. I am sending this message from my Win doze box which I was about to junk! CUPS uses, it seems, ghost script for non post script printers and that is always a notch or two behind for all the distributions. Bart Alberti
