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

[Dr Chris Owens]

Hi Dave and Jools

First thanks Jools for the link to computers4africa I'll pass it on.

I don't know how relevant it is but although the Canon IP4500 eventually 
but unpredictably works there is no /dev/usblp0 to be found or indeed 
*lp0 in any file name in /dev or anywhere else as far as I can see. I'm 
totally out of my depth so what else can one look for that might be broken?

Yes Dave I have eventually got rather fed up with Canon at least on 
Mint. The first one I had was an i330 a first class work-horse - always 
worked until it signed itself off with one of the forced self 
obsolescence messages - 'ink pad saturated' or some such. Managed to fix 
it once for about 3 more months but it was totally resistant second time 
around. Like with your Mum, most of the bother with IP4500 is on start 
up when a lot of whirring and 2 or 3 part pages are a must, often with 
all sorts of wierd fonts and colours. Rarely it manages a clean start up.

A real teaser I suspect but thanks for your interest.

Chris

On 22/03/14 19:59, Dave Winterton wrote:
> 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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