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On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:58, Philip Ireland wrote: > Was thinking of buying Canon S200X bubble jet printer so looked in Linux > Hardware pages but found no mention. Went to Canon site and to their > "support" and this is what I got > > Solutions > > Canon only develops drivers for Windows and Macintosh, *not for Linux or > other OS* . > The Uni decided, some time ago now, to replace its old Xerox printer with some Canon ones. The Xerox worked fine from Solaris and linux. The canon does not :-( I stated that access to the printer has to be available from unix boxes since we have no other printers around - how on earth can we get log files, stats etc printed without a printer?? (Okay, so it wasn't quite true, but I was making a point with the engineer and trying to get him to see that there is more to life than Windows.) He went to find out about this. All I got back was that some canon techies had developed development (?) drivers for unix but they were not available. I eventually found that the canon printer (ir3300's in our case) actually worked fine when configured as HP laserjet 4's :-) You don't get all the printer functionality, but it prints (double-sided too). Overall must admit that I wouldn't bother Canon at all. As the (old) ads should have said "Canon can't" :-) John. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.