[newbie] wrong printer picked...
G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and the S300, but it actually chose the BJC-2100 Ghostscript+gimp-print[recommended]. I tried the S100 and got the same results. Is there a driver for the S200SP available, and if so where? Anything else I should try? TIA... -- Merlin Zener piano and synthesizer Pattaya, Thailand. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 18/02/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wrong printer picked...
On Thursday 20 February 2003 04:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and the S300, but it actually chose the BJC-2100 Ghostscript+gimp-print[recommended]. I tried the S100 and got the same results. Is there a driver for the S200SP available, and if so where? Anything else I should try? TIA... -- Merlin Zener piano and synthesizer Pattaya, Thailand. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 18/02/2003 No, Canon is rather economical with its distribution of information ands as a result canon drivers lag behind others in recency. Almost all printers are listed along with how well the drivers work at www.linuxprinting.org As for the printer, try setting 360x360 dpi in the printer settings (run printerdrake in a terminal su'ed to root). It is the 720 that is causing problems. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wrong printer picked...
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 00:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, when I installed Mandrake it didn't find my printer and I accepted the suggested alternative; unfortunately it now prints twice as wide as it should... My printer is a Canon S200SP; Printerdrake lists the S100 and the S300, but it actually chose the BJC-2100 Ghostscript+gimp-print[recommended]. I tried the S100 and got the same results. Is there a driver for the S200SP available, and if so where? Anything else I should try? TIA... -- Merlin Zener You might want to try using Webmin to setup the printer - I've found that especially with Canon printers in MDK it seems to work a tad bit better than using the MCC for setting it up. I'm sure I'll get a thousand flames for that, but it works for me. Also, being that there is a new version of Webmin, you might want to upgrade it as well - once you get Webmin up and running, you can go to the Webmin configuration and run an update. Nice tool. -- Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:40:00 +1100 8:40am up 1 day, 21:23, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.11 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
