On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:18:02PM -0700, larry price wrote: > On my semi regular trip to Costco I spotted this Canon Multifunction > copy/scan/print > machine for USD 169.99 after checking that I could bring it back if it > was not compatible I figured "hey, what have I got to lose", since it > has most of the feature set I was looking for (b/w laser printer, > scanner,copier, etc.) > > After setting it up and using it as a copier (to make sure it actually works) > I went ahead and tried to set it up as a printer using > Ubuntu's/Gnome's gnome-cups-config utility. > > The first try did not work, nor did the second, after a certain amount > of googling it seems that this device is too new to be supported. > > I figure I'm going to take a stab at making it work, if anyone has any > idea on how to go about gathering the necessary information to write a > .ppd file for a new device, and what info would be needed to make that > happen, please share it with me.
PPD files usually come on the driver CD ... if it understands PostScript. otherwise, you need to have som,ething that converts Postscript to a language the device understands. > I've already dumped the lsusb info for the device, but don't know > enough about this particular dark corner of computing to make this > work quickly. does the kernel see the device as a USB printer? > And finally a few questions: > why is printing so unnecessarily complicated? actually, it's really easy ... if the printer understands PostScript. www.linuxprinting.org offers quite a bit of info, mailing lists, etc. > Why hasn't adobe made a stab at licensing usb chipsets that understand pdf? because converting PDF to Postscript is simple. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
