Hello listmates,
I am considering getting this multi-functional printer (printer/scanner/fax):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6...
Has anybody used it under Linux? What was that experience like?
Thanks.
Boris.
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
Hello listmates,
I am considering getting this multi-functional printer (printer/scanner/fax):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-detai
ls.asp?EdpNo=6052773&CatId=2709
Has anybody used it under Linux? What was that experience like?
Thanks.
Boris.
Google: +linux Canon MX870 driver Supplies you with lots more information than I can. Give google a try.
Remember M$'s search tool BING? That stands for "But It's Not Google".
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On 01/03/11 19:40, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I am considering getting this multi-functional printer (printer/scanner/fax):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6052773&CatId=2709
Has anybody used it under Linux? What was that experience like?
After having had a Canon MP600 MFP device myself for some time, I would not consider Canon at all. Driver support in Linux is far from optimal. You got TurboPrint which kind of solves it, but on some platforms even TurboPrint dies when printing too big documents.
Canon tried to do some open source driver stuff for the Asian market, and trying to rebuild that was a nightmare on 64 bit, because they basically just supported 32 bit. And these drivers have not been updated for quite some time.
I also don't see MX870 in the supported list in the "Open Printing" project [1]. So I wouldn't bet on good support out-of-the-box. A couple of the MX printers are even classified as paper weights.
Personally, I'm getting rid of my Canon soon, and I'm going for a HP printer. It might not be the optimal vendor in regards to price. Print quality is usually good, though. But they do support their devices with open source drivers, which I do embrace. Another brand I would consider is Epson.
Sorry about the rant, but my Canon user experience in Linux is far from good. The MP600 is a great device, hardware wise (except lacking IPv6 support, even though the Canon support claims it has that). But I do expect decent Linux support nowadays, or else I'll call it crap. So no more Canon for me. At least until Canon does a real open source effort.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:
On 01/03/11 19:40, Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I am considering getting this multi-functional printer
(printer/scanner/fax):
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6...
<
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6...
Has anybody used it under Linux? What was that experience like?
After having had a Canon MP600 MFP device myself for some time, I would not consider Canon at all. Driver support in Linux is far from optimal. You got TurboPrint which kind of solves it, but on some platforms even TurboPrint dies when printing too big documents.
Canon tried to do some open source driver stuff for the Asian market, and trying to rebuild that was a nightmare on 64 bit, because they basically just supported 32 bit. And these drivers have not been updated for quite some time.
I also don't see MX870 in the supported list in the "Open Printing" project [1]. So I wouldn't bet on good support out-of-the-box. A couple of the MX printers are even classified as paper weights.
Personally, I'm getting rid of my Canon soon, and I'm going for a HP printer. It might not be the optimal vendor in regards to price. Print quality is usually good, though. But they do support their devices with open source drivers, which I do embrace. Another brand I would consider is Epson.
Sorry about the rant, but my Canon user experience in Linux is far from good. The MP600 is a great device, hardware wise (except lacking IPv6 support, even though the Canon support claims it has that). But I do expect decent Linux support nowadays, or else I'll call it crap. So no more Canon for me. At least until Canon does a real open source effort.
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
[1] http://www.openprinting.org/printers
David,
Thanks, we just had an HP and yes, while it is better compatible with Linux, the hardware was just aweful. It broke down finally so we are looking for a replacement and it looks like all the Canon PIXMA printers get much praise for being reliable, never jamming paper and never failing on the multi-page scans. Those were problems our HP Office Pro L7590 was doing all the time.
Boris.
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Sommerseth dazo@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Sorry about the rant, but no more Canon for me.
David,
Thanks, we just had an HP and yes, while it is better compatible with Linux, the hardware was just awful. It broke down finally so we are looking for a replacement and it looks like all the Canon PIXMA printers get much praise for being reliable, never jamming paper and never failing on the multi-page scans. Those were problems our HP Office Pro L7590 was doing all the time.
Boris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOjRQhj5A4
HP has its own "realities". It is supported well under CentOS.
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. BBrunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOjRQhj5A4
HP has its own "realities". It is supported well under CentOS.
In general, yes, HPs are pretty well supported. However, they have shipped non-standard printers that don't work so well. For example, the low-end HP2600n uses a different driver than the 2600 and the 2650. Though you can get it to work with CentOS, it's a bit of a pain. In fact, though the 2600n is listed with the other printers with similar model numbers, it won't work. You need to download a package from HP (at least there is one), or grab the foozjs drivers and compile them.
The commodity Canons are OK for light use, occasional printing. That seems harsh, but I can say the same for Samsung, Brother and HP. All their low-end ones seem to fail after about a year or use. But hey, for $80 they cost as much as getting a mid-range printer that you update every 5 years. I print about 10 pages a week, and occasionally 40 to 50 pages on specific projects every other month or so.
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