[CentOS] Fwd: Response from Canon - MultiPASS (KMM7153196V60774L0KM)

[John Summerfield]

Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> On 4/15/07, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>>
>> so what color photo printers are supported in Linux?   My personal color
>> printer at home is the Canon i9900, which is connected via USB2 to a
>> WindowsXP system, I don't have much experience trying to do photo
>> printing from Linux, in fact the last time I did any color printing from
>> Unix or Linux, it was on a color Postscript laser printer, and it was
>> nowheres near photo quality.
>>
>> ditto, multifunction SOHO copier/printer/fax/scanner machines (which is
>> what I'm presuming the MP160 is).  Those typically are 90% host
>> software, and require all-in-one application software running on the
>> host system to manage their copier and fax functionality.     How would
>> you propose a consumer electronics oriented company support Linux?
>> Which glibc should they link with?  which version of gnome/gtk/kde/what
>> should they build their app with?    just give the user a source tarball
>> and say 'have fun compiling'?
> 
> 
> That's an interesting point, but it's sad, too, because it makes Linux the
> limping straggler following behind the great M$ iron horse Window$.  Or is
> there an alternative for Linux that does print photo-quality photo images?
> 
> Would it be so difficult to send the source to the major distributors (RH,
> SUSE, to name two) so they could include quality printer support in the
> distros?  (Yeah, I know, more work for the distro developers, but that IS
> the business they're in....)

If I were a vendor and they offered me the source, I would say "post it 
at sourceforge or savanagh under an approved OSS licence, and then we'll 
look at it."



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