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<DIV>Hi Mark Rob & Barry</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for your replies.</DIV>
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<DIV>The old Canon BJC 4200 going back to the mid nineties and in fact my first
printer lasted longer than many others but finally gave up the ghost with
blocked nozzles in the print head carrier.. The usual warm wet
kitchen paper towel did not do the trick this time and I had also tried
standing water, on top of the head dome and forcing it in and out with a syringe
with silicon tube to fit, even short blasts from an air duster failed in
both directions as did flushing alcohol. I did get one reasonable nozzle test
from it but that was all so I assume some solids had settled in the nozzles
again making it unreliable. I had been refilling for many years. So its
ready for the tip.</DIV>
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<DIV>I hope I have been right in assuming Debian drivers will be alright for
Mint as I decided today to go and buy a Canon MG5750. They were selling for
just under £50 at Currys Black Friday sale which was too good to miss so
as they also cover Win XP I decided to get one while some for XP were still
available. So its a good photo printer for the price. I had looked
at Brother as suggested but did not have space for an A3 model. The
smaller ones may have been acceptable but not being familiar with the make
decided on Canon.</DIV>
<DIV><EM>Just realised that some of Marks reply is interlaced making my comments
at the start of this paragraph unnecessary.</EM></DIV>
<DIV><U></U>I was intending to get the drivers from the Canon site and hoping to
install them as I would on Windows but of course through Linux on its own drive.
I was not expecting any pgp, is this encryption? Maybe we can discuss on
Tuesday. Obviously I would try the auto detection first but was not
too hopeful with Canon not being overflush with drivers. I have not got that far
yet.</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Alan</DIV>
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<A title=durham@mailman.lug.org.uk
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=durham@mailman.lug.org.uk
href="mailto:durham@mailman.lug.org.uk">A Pearson via Durham</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 19, 2017 6:34
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Durham] Printers on
Linux</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR>A Pearson via Durham:<BR>> I believe Mint is base on
a Ubuntu fork and ultimately derived from Debian. Am I that
correct?<BR><BR>Yes<BR><BR>> The reason for asking is that there are a
number of drivers each for scanner or printer. I am assuming the ones I
need are the two named Debian Package Archive (not rpm-
RedHat).<BR><BR>Assuming you've already tried the auto-detection system in
Mint, you'll<BR>be looking to download a .deb file and a pgp signature with
which to<BR>verify it<BR><BR>> Hope you can advise me as I have got fed up
trying unblock a print head and hope to make a new purchase this
weekend.<BR><BR>I've found warm water and blotting paper does fine for
unblocking inkjet<BR>heads. If you're thinking of getting a different printer,
please don't<BR>buy a new one, there are regular giveaways e.g. on
freegle.in/durham and<BR>you just need to check you get a suitable one by
searching for it on<BR><A
href="http://www.openprinting.org/printers">http://www.openprinting.org/printers</A><BR><BR>HTH<BR>Mark<BR><BR><BR>
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