[HLUG] Computers for Overseas (Linux and Canon Printers)

[Dr Chris Owens]

Hi Jools

Thanks for the reply and the tip off - I think I will put off 
'upgrading' to Mint 16 at least for a bit - pity. I don't know if its 
relevant but I'm pretty sure everything was OK with Ubuntu 12.04 driving 
the Canon.

If anything turns up please let me know.

All the best

Chris

On 21/03/14 12:07, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> I know what you mean about canon printers and Linux.
>
> They have proprietary drivers but install isn't easy and after a few hours
> of trying just doesn't quite work for me on mint 16.
>
> The install wasn't too bad but I get problems with device setup
>
> I had to give up in the end...
>
> Julian
>
> On 17 Mar 2014 12:02, "Dr Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> Very sorry not to be getting to the meetings these days but night driving
>> has become a real problem - boring!!
>>
>> My question for to-day is: Is there a best buy for a Charity that will
>> take oldish (say post 2000) functional machines for donation to Overseas
>> communities. The Executors for a chum of mine have got about 6-9 machines
>> that they would like to send to a good home.
>>
>> And Jools, did you sort out the relationship between Mint and that Canon
>> Printer. I have a very unstable relationship between a Canon PIXMA 4500 and
>> Linux Mint 13 Maya - sometimes takes ages to start printing - loads of
>> whirring, prints a few lines sometimes with text in various formats and
>> colours, sometimes can't even turn the printer off other than at the wall.
>> Mostly works in the end but something is very obviously wrong - have tried
>> re-installing what drivers I could get hold of - no better result.
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Chris
>>
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