On Monday 29 October 2007 16:29:44 Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> Peter: You helped me half way. I need further guidance:
>
> Peter E Collier wrote:
> > Hi Dennis.
> > I had problems a while back with a canon Pixma ip4000. Support
> > for
> > canon printers under linux I found is not strong. Many google searches
> > came up with using different canon models that would give me basic
> > printing abilities but not the full scope of the printer. e.g. reduced
> > resolution and sometimes no cd printing. Gimp + gutenprint got me a bit
> > nearer.
> > Peter C
>
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> I downloaded the gutenprint rpm and installed it. I went to TurboPrint
> setup and tried to load the Canon PIXMA MP830 driver only to find that
> TurboPrint insisted on the /dev/lp0 device. I went to
> Yast2/Hardware/Printer and noted that the printer was not spotted by the
> printer application. I went further and loaded the MP830 driver(which I
> assume was the one I downloaded from Gutenprint) and tested the
> connection: I was informed that I was using "a different spooler". The
> queue printer set up could not be saved because "selected spooler does
> not support it". I looked around for a spooler selector and found none.
>
> Can you help me further?
>
> I know the connection between the computer and the MP830 works because
> when I turned on the computer, the MP830 (which I left on since the last
> session) woke up (the LED screen turned on and the motor made a noise).
>
> Dennis J. Tuchler
> University City, Missouri 63130
In the turbo print setup. If you select add. It asks you where/how printer is
connected. Although it may only give you a option like /dev/lp0, Is not
possible to type in /dev/usb0 and try that.
Some bits of background info from my experiences.
I have been swapping about between Suse and Kubuntu various releases for the
last 2 or 3 years.I have had a hicup with suse 9 or 10 and this current one
10.3 with turboprint and an odd ubunto version. odd tool elements wouldn't
work and sometimes couldn't get it to work at all. I may be wrong but I get
the feeling that if you try to get the distro to set up the printer first
before using turboprint, that sometimes throws a wobbly. e.g. In suse 10.3 I
thought I would try yast first to see if by canon printer was supported out
of the box but it wasn't so I installed turboprint. Now in suse, everytime I
start the printer, I click on print and nothing happens. Open up turboprint
setup and I don't have to configure anything, touch anything but the printing
starts!.
Under Kubuntu the printing starts but there is a delay for each print
job.
I tend to experiment a lot and sometimes I end up reinstalling the distro to
get rid of all my errors. On reinstall, printing sometimes is ok? why?
Over the last 15 years I've tried many distros and I've found that one
distro
installs flawlessly and snother has problems with various things. But when I
try on a different machine, the distro that gave problems installs ok and the
other one that was ok on machine 1 is now ok for machine 2.
I notice a reference you made to printer using a different spooler.
Could
this be that turboprint has done something? perhaps start up turboprint setup
and delete any reference to a printer.
Sorry if this doesn't help. I tend to need to be at the problem site to
try
things out.
Peter C
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