Indeed the question (thanks for your instantaneous reply!) is, since I actually get the message "SuSE Linux does not support this printer", when it, namely, BJ-200, is right there on the list; and I have seen postings on the forums that somehow SuSE 9.2 yanked support for the Canon BJ-200 (something about libpng.so.#nnn) although their hard ware data base still shows it as fully supported (not under CUPS but LPrng of course). Gee, it has been a sturdy little box for TEN years now! At the moment I do not print. It's a bit irrelevant but the modem was a devil too under 9.1 even my external modems (three of them) did not work but only the Intel 536ep is fine and I have an external too under 9.2. Linux is intolerant of hard ware (as was Win NT notoriously). This must stop. I too am a hobby enthusiast! This is all a challenge; but aggravating, too. It is 10 PM here in California and I am going to bed.
Bart Alberti ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Ringer" <[email protected]> To: <scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [Scribus] printing canon printers > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 21:02 -0800, Bart Alberti wrote: > > > Printing in LINUX is not easy at all. > > In general, I have to agree. Oddly, it's easier with big, expensive, > complicated network PostScript printers than it is with inkjets - > largely because the big printers follow well defined standards. > > > 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. > > Now there, I think you've got the wrong way of it. It might be no good > to you for what you want it for, but that doesn't make it no good. Not > as good, yes, but not no good at all. > > Remember, only one part of the Linux "community" even views it as a > "product". To many it's a project and a hobby. Open Source developers > aren't all working on a product roadmap for their dayjobs ;-) . Now, > many or even most still care about making it easy to use and easy to > distribute, but not necessarily because of commercial-development style > thinking about products and delivery. > > I happen to agree that consumer-level printing under Linux is a right > mess, and that even "enterprise" level printing is in a much weaker > state than it should be. It is, however, a darn sight better than what > we had two years ago, and it's still getting better at a fair clip. I > don't think it's reasonable to write it off just because there are some > problems with it. > > > 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, [GhostScript] for non [PostScript] printers and that is > > always a notch or two behind for all the distributions. > > Correct. In no small part thanks to work and negotiation by Peter > Linnell, this is now slowly changing and distros are beginning to pick > up newer versions of GhostScript. I understand part of the problem was > that the ESP patches to gs, needed by CUPS, weren't compatible with gs8 > and weren't in a state where they could be integrated into the mainline > ghostscript. I think that's now resolved or on its way to being > resolved. > > -- > Craig Ringer > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
