[Wolves] Canon printers and Linux

[Tim Humpherson]

Okay, thanks for the tip.  But I prefer a printer that is excellent in
photo-quality, but also can print DIRECTLY on white blank CD discs,
hence the R300 choice.

Regards,


Tim



On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:15:14 +0000, Andy Wootton
<andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Tim Humpherson wrote:
> 
> >Thank you.
> >
> >I guess therefore the Epson R300 would be a better option?
> >
> >Tim.
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:30:33 +0000, baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Tim Humpherson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Will the new Canon Bubble Jet i865 work under Linux?
> >>>
> >>>I have seen the reviews and none seems to mention that it will work
> >>>under Linux.  I understand that if there isn't one, a generic printer
> >>>driver is usually the norm to use, but I prefer PROPER driver for that
> >>>specific printer.
> >>>
> >>>Anyone out there know the answer to this one?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I've found that Cannon and Lexmark printers are not at all well support
> >>for Linux. These two companies don't do themselves any favours with
> >>Linux users.
> >>
> >>Baza
> >>
> On very little experience so far, my Canon i560 works fine using a
> driver for an earlier model that was in CUPS.
> 
> Woo
> 
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