[Scribus] printing canon printers

Dean McCorquodale deanm
Sun Apr 3 12:48:34 CEST 2005


There is a spooler/print manager called brightq from codehost that might
work. I use it at work to print to some canon-irc3200's. 
www.codehost.com I think.
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 15:02, 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.'
> 
> 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
> 
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