On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:25 -0600, Seb wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:34:31 -0500, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > [...] > > > So yes a commercial driver may be the only choice, or one could go get a > > cheap printer that actually works with linux and will stay working > > because it has documentation. > > Actually, I already have a samsung ml-1740 which works wonderfully, but I > was given this canon for scanning/copying. As I'm learning, Canon do seem > to behave a lot like Microsoft.
I took immense pleasure in telling canon where to shove a £10,000 printer-and-support-contract when I had a look at the non-Windows support of the solution being proposed. > > At the price of the turboprint driver, you are quite a bit into the > > price of a decent well supported epson inkjet (which also in general has > > way better printer quality than anything canon has ever made) :) > > Yep, I had a look at turboprint's web site, but was immediately turned off > by their policies much more than by their prices. Turboprint works, but I've not used it on AMD64 It's really a shame though. Canon consumer inkjet printers have the highest print quality and lowest running costs in all price ranges - but the non-Windows support sucks --Jo
