[KLUG Members] Canon i850 -great printer but LINUX driver?

[Greg Mason]

Canon isn't very opensource friendly...

linuxprinting.org has a "vendor report card" and canon didn't do to 
well.

HP and Epson do quite well on the report card. There are even linux 
utilities for all the intricate details of Epsons (and maybe now even 
HP's?) like head alignment and cleaning.

i found out about Canon the hard way as well, I have an S630, took a 
while to get a driver to work with it (then I came across SuSE, and it 
worked GREAT!, just plugged it in, and added it to the list of 
printers, and viola! a printer that prints color and prints the correct 
size even...)

sorry for the bad news about canon...

-Greg

On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 04:02  PM, Ralph M. Deal wrote:

> Hoping to finally get a photo-quality printer, I bought a Canon i850 
> with the smallest droplet size in a modest printer yet but guess 
> what...
> I'm going to have to put it on my wife's ME(ugh) computer.
>
> Anyone out there find a driver for the i850?  I've wasted several 
> hours trying to get some of the more sophisticated printer drivers up 
> hoping for one to have the i850 driver but no joy so far.
>
> 		Ralph
>
> PS.  Check out this well-written condemnation MS's new exclusion 
> policy:
> http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html
>
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