[newbie] canon bjc610 printer
Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get this supported printer working. The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that isn't consistent. I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking. I've had enough of this nonsense. I am tired of spending countless hours, frustrated that little, just simply works, and ready to put windows on this #$% thing just so I can use my printer. Oh, and my unsupported digital camara ( which is an entirely different issue ). Does anyone have, or know of a driver that I can install simply to make this #$^ thing operate correctly ? Because I am at my wits end, and starting to see why Microsoft controls 90+% of the desktop. I am running Mandrake 8.2 KDE2 ( Gnome doesn't work either, but Gnome does operate the cdr, KDE does not, why not ? I know not ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
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 On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 5:03 pm, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get this supported printer working. The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that isn't consistent. I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking. I've had enough of this nonsense. I am tired of spending countless hours, frustrated that little, just simply works, and ready to put windows on this #$% thing just so I can use my printer. Oh, and my unsupported digital camara ( which is an entirely different issue ). Does anyone have, or know of a driver that I can install simply to make this #$^ thing operate correctly ? Because I am at my wits end, and starting to see why Microsoft controls 90+% of the desktop. I am running Mandrake 8.2 KDE2 ( Gnome doesn't work either, but Gnome does operate the cdr, KDE does not, why not ? I know not ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer
Good news about Turbo print working :-) I have never needed to use it myself because my printer is not supported :-( I do rather agree with your rant. My own printer is an HPDesket 720C which without my knowing when I bought it, is a 'winprinter' in that it requires the PC to directly manage the print heads. There are 'free' drivers which work OK for text, but are pretty awful for graphics, and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it apart from buy a new printer. (I will do that when the ink runs out, as a printer does not cost much more than a couple of ink cartridges) To be fair to HP they have seen the error of their ways, and no longer make 'winprinters' and now sponsor an opensource project for Linux drivers for their current and future printers.Since so many people come to Linux with a printer already in their posession it is really a matter of chance how well it is going to work. For anyone looking for a new printer I would suggest http://www.linuxprinting.org/ as a first stop. The site is run by Til Klamppeter (spelling?) who is a Mandrake employee, so Mandrake have a better than average chance of getting printer drivers right. derek SNIP 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. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
