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

[tim spivey]

Makes me glad I got an Epson, it did take a bit of work to get Mint to see
it but it has been relatively trouble free (Epson sx325)
On 23 Mar 2014 11:30, "Dr Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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