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

[Dave Winterton]

I'm sure you are fed up of Canon printers, I recently bought a cheap
canon pixma printer for my mother who sadly uses windows 7 and it too is
playing up, only partly printing pages, I get to look at it tomorrow,
but my gut feeling is it has no working auto detect and needs to be set
up exactly right , will report, but it may be a hardware problem.
David


<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Julian Robbins [joolsr1 at gmail.com]
>Sent: 3/22/2014 1:16:40 PM
>To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [HLUG] Computers for Overseas (Linux and Canon Printers)
>
>Yes 12.04 is ok as you say. I used one of the newer 64bit builds of the
>drivers which may have been part of the problem.
>
>I'm sure it's fixable, but nothing simple. May be related to how the
>printer is referred too ie /dev/usblp0.
>
>Julian
>On 22 Mar 2014 13:53, "Dr Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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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