GERHARD GOETZHABER wrote: It was a pretty good offer of a computer shop in my country (Austria) > having me had purchase a piece of demonstration ware still under > guarantee, an I-sensys LBP7100Cn for 120 $ only. Wonderful machine! > > The most over reason of that low price might have been that printer was > one of the last Canon models unconditionally basing on Canon's > proprietary UFRII printer language and thus requiring a special driver, > whereas later Canon products allow to work on HP or PS printing data , > too. However, the excellent Linux drivers (consisting of a > "cndvcups-common" and a "cndrvcups-ufr2lt" each) bundled as .deb and > .rpm packages together are shipped on CD with the printer, and you can > download newer versions from Canon servers in USA, UK and Australia. > I've tried them out with a lot of Debian and RH based distros and > therein never seen any serious difficulties but sometimes on Debian > rather than Ubuntu having had to add one to three dependencies manually. > (On RH derived distros, Yum and Dnf will solve it automatically!) I > always work on KDE Plasma whereon the printer recognition now seems to > act perfectly. That's not my experience with Canon printers. I have a Canon MG5550 which works perfectly under Windows (7 and 10) but does not work from my Fedora-24/KDE laptop using the recommended CUPS driver. The laptop accesses the printer's WiFi OK, and the printer appears to be responding, but nothing comes out. I haven't done much research on this, as it is easy for me to use Windows, but I certainly would not give Canon printers a blanket recommendation for use under Linux. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
