[Scribus] Re: printing canon printers

Helge Hielscher hhielscher
Fri Apr 1 20:16:52 CEST 2005


On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:02:09 -0800, Bart Alberti wrote:
>
> 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 is known that Canon does not support Linux like Epson and HP do. You
should be thankful that there are free drivers at all.
And as a matter of fact commercial drivers are available as well at
http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

Regards,
Helge





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