Bart Alberti schrieb: >Regrettably my Canon BJ-200 printer (using Berkeley lpd) gave up after I >changed the A4 paper size, since it was clipping the bottom lines, to >'letter.' Then I got a Canon ip1500 photo printer for $49 (!) and that won't >print in SuSE 9.2 even though CUPS and YAST automatically recognize it and >they say it is 'ready.' > > It's not a good idea, to use the newest and cheapest inkjet with linux.
I use a deskjet 930c, some years old, if I would need another printer I would buy the same model from eBay, because it works fine with linux (took some work, to get it working to my content). Regards: Uwe >Printing in LINUX is not easy at all. I do not care how brilliant our coders >in 'C' are. If the product cannot be delivered to the user easily it is NO >GOOD. I say this as a user and friend of Linux. I am sending this message >from my Win doze box which I was about to junk! > >CUPS uses, it seems, ghost script for non post script printers and that is >always a notch or two behind for all the distributions. > > >Bart Alberti > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
