On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:15, you wrote: > > Here I was thinking I was just asking for a bit of advice from other more > > experienced users, how wrong I was... > > Ok, if you can't guess the answer to your question by now ;), here is:
Volker: You are being rude and offensive, please don't post these sorts of messages to this list, because it gives the Linux community a very bad name. Everybody has to start from a position of little or no knowledge and there is nothing wrong with that. If you want to rant and rage without contributing any real knowledge to the list members then please re-direct your pontifications to /dev/null Dave: There is a very informative site on the www which is almost the 'font of all knowledge' for linux printing. http://www.linuxprinting.org/ In particular there is an intersting exchange of messages in their message archive at this address and the pages linked therefrom:- http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/canon-list/2002q4/000656.html and in particular http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/canon-list/2002q4/000787.html Also you will be interested by:- http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/article.php3?id=1262&group=linuxprinting.canon.general http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/canon-list/2002q4/000787.html http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-BJC-7100 The Ghostscript package is available from here:- https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897 Often the latest ghostscript, rather than the gnu-ghostscript which is the one in the pre-packaged Linux distributions, usually has many bugs fixed and configuration scripts for more printers. Building ghostscript from source is quite a task, but it is not beyond the capabilities of anyone who has a basic understanding. The installation instructions in the .../doc/ directory are very full and accurate. > If you have a current Linux distro, all the software which can deal > with your printer is already included. If there isn't anything which > deals with your printer, then your printer is plain not supported by > open source software. Not always true see above. >Sorry if that wasn't the answer you wanted to > hear though... > > Specifically, all the printer control is done by ghostscript (one way > or another, it all ends there). I don't think gimpprint does printer > control, it only deals with colour and page handling. Turboprint would > most likely solve your troubles as it handles printers directly > (calling ghostscript if necessary for any postscript jobs). > > Canon doesn't give a damn about Linux users and refuses to even talk to > open source developers. Draw your own conclusions. > > You could investigate whether the latest versions of ghostscript > (somewhere in the 8) know about your printer. These versions of > ghostscript will not be part of your distro for copyright reasons, you > may have to compile them yourself. > > Volker
