Thank you for your help. See below for question.
Peter Collier wrote:
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!.
I just got SuSE 10.3. Are you suggesting that I not install the PIXMA
MP830 using Yast in the installation process?
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Best regards,
Dennis J. Tuchler
University City, Missouri 63130
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