[Gllug] Canon Printers?

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On 07/11/10 22:58, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 22:20 +0000, John Southall wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I feel that I should apologise for the following. Have I missed
>> something? In two recent threads, Canon printers weren't mentioned at
>> all. The Canon MFP inkjets look great, but what's wrong with them.
>>      
> Canon steadfastly refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything other
> than Windows.  They actively discourage the writers of Linux printer
> drivers from supporting their products.
>
>    

That's not strictly true Christopher...

http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Software/Linux/PIXMA/index.asp

Having said that they were widely regarded as linux hostile for quite 
some time, I guess this must be a fairly recent innovation.

Roger.

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