Re: [SLE] Difficult printers [Was: White-Box PC Makers Pre-Install Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop]

At 02:03 AM 11/2/2006 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Wednesday 2006-11-01 at 19:35 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:36 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

I use cups together with the proprietary turboprint driver in order to
get
good quality from my canon bjc 4000. It is not expensive and works well,
so it is a solution for some of those recalcitrant printers. Of course,
next printer I buy will work in Linux straight away, but that printer
predates my linux times.

I thought that the drivers for Canon' BJC-4*00 series were available.
I have used them for both the 4300 and the 4400, which work, after
tweaking the settings for paper size, and contrast.

Yes, they work. But the results I got with my 4000 were prety bad and I
was unable to get it to work well enough: I had to boot windows to get
good prints. I wrote here (thread: Horrible print quality, Jul 2004), but
finally I gave up and paid.

I think I have somewhere a scanned sample print to show what I got that
I could email you if you are interested (300K). It seems like a broken
dithering algorithm.

Perhaps the 4200 and up do work, dunno. My 4000 didn't.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
Hello, folks--

I was the one who started this thread, writing about the Brother HL-2040.
It seems that it is now "recognised," but 9.3 thinks it is a CD drive!
I know there is a configuration routine, somewhere in the matrix, but I
only found it once, and can't seem to get back there. Please advise!
(I'm running it on USB--my first and only experience of USB in any
OS. But the II indicated that there would be a very simple install
using USB, so I did it.) How do I tell Suse 9.3 that what it thinks is
a CD, is really a printer?

Is there somewhere a printed copy of the complete matrix of the
things you get when you do a "This (was 'My') Computer" or a SUSE
Green Ball from the bottom left? Windoz is no better, but really
no worse. Finding configurations, or setups, is just a new
version of that old CPM routine, that started: "You are in
front of a small shed. When you go inside, you find a
stairway leading down into the ground. At the bottom
are a whole lot of twisty little tunnels." Or something like that.
(Shows my age, I suppose.) I think it was called "Wolfenstein."

--doug




--doug


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