On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 10:52 +0100, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 20:20 -0500, David McGuffey wrote:
Oldest son came back from college and wants a printer for his Dell laptop. I built it with CentOS 5.3 x86_64 several months ago and will upgrade it to 5.4
The Cannon printer he now has (bought with the laptop and Vista through the university book store), doesn't seem to have linux drivers.
what model printer is this? Did you check http://www.linuxprinting.org? You may also want to take a look at turboprint www.turboprint.info , it is commercial, but offer good quality drivers for a lot of printers. It will still be cheaper than to buy a new printer....
Yes, I checked that site. The printer is a USB Cannon IP1800. Chasing links I found at linuxprinting I had to go to Japan to get a driver, but it wouldn't work.
My HP Photosmart 3210 (ethernet) at home works on CentOS. I may give him that one, and buy a new printer for CINC House and me.
DaveM