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  1. Get commercial drivers..... by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 1 · on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

    http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

    I would be shocked if your printer is not supported.

  2. Re:Didn't buy Canon due to low Linux support.. by zakezuke · · Score: 1 · on HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink?

    I liked the Canon 4500 (I think it's called Pixma or something) because it can also print CDs, but when I checked Linux compatibility it was poor. So I decided not to buy it. There is always Turbo Print I've not tried it, and it's not open source near as i'm aware. It's $30 euros or $40 usd.

    I can't speak for the ip4500, I have the ip5200 which was much like the ip4300. I liked the color rendering on the epson much better than the canon, but the canon was without a doubt a better general purpose printer. Build quality without a doubt was superior than the frameless Rxxx series.

  3. Re:Not buying a printer... by denominateur · · Score: 1 · on InkJet Printers Lying, Or Just Wrong?

    I've had great results with the canon i865, five huge, separate ink tanks and relatively cheap inks (the black cartridge lasts about 600 pages)

    It's not a true photo printer but it comes with a number of special accessories for printing on different media (ie: cd labelling tray, photo prints tray)

    if you are using linux i suggest the turboprint drivers from http://www.turboprint.de/

  4. Re:This could help acceptance of the Linux desktop by zakezuke · · Score: 1 · on Fluendo To Sell Proprietary Codecs For Linux

    As someone who absolutely refuses to pirate software unless I have no choice, I'd be prepared to pay a few ££ extra to stay legal.

    I wonder if keeping an extra copy of windows would make use of the propriority .dlls needed for mplayer WMV support would be considered legit and not piracy.

    I'm not so much anti-piracy but pro working shit. For example turboprint. If I ever needed to print to my canons under linux, this is something i'd consider paying for.

  5. I'm running a Canon iP3000 with my Linux box by alizard · · Score: 1 · on HP Launches Ink Patent Violation Manhunt
    You can buy the driver package (which seems to cover everything, but try before you buy, they've got a demo) from http://www.turboprint.de/ or you can find the Canon Japan ftp site where they've got the Canon PIXMA drivers.

    Separate ink tanks are also easy to refill. Do a bit of research first, though, some of their newer printers have the integrated ink tank/print head setup that does nothing but add to your costs when you discover that only one color is empty and you've got to cough up the money anyway for a new printer cartridge.

    I once had an HP Series II laserjet with the original Canon laser print engine. Built like a tank, and about as heavy. And solid. And reliable. Too bad the HP that made that printer is for practical purposes, no longer around. The HP of old was strangled by the bean counters and marketeers. All that's left is a once-proud name.

    HP's attempt to suppress third-party ink competitors is just another good reason to avoid HP printers, and anything else HP makes, particularly including servers and workstations. (other reasons to avoid the workstations, e.g. drive partition "backup" instead of an install CD)

  6. Re:How to tell if you are a linux fanatic. by ArsenneLupin · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Hackers Serving Rootkits with Bagles
    You cannot admit that there is no professional printing capabilities in linux.

    There now is: TurboPrint.

    It supports all the recent printers, including multi-functionals, and photo printers, from all major manufacturers such as Canon, HP, Epson, Brother, Lexmark, etc.

  7. while your problems are probably easy enough... by alizard · · Score: 1 · on Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On?
    if you don't object to spending money to buy Linux apps, Turboprint will probably get you almost all the features of your printer, including duplex printing, and Vuescan will probably get you what you're looking for from your scanner... yeah, there's a problem. No, I don't know what to tell you about wireless.

    I've been writing mainly Linux desktop how-to pieces for the last year. I run Fedora Core 2, shortly upgrading to 3.

    I've found that while in general, adding a capability (e.g. multimedia) to a Linux box takes half an hour to an hour, finding out what to do most of the time takes from a full working day to several weeks worth of full working days.

    I'm not talking complicated or obscure, I'm talking things like image and archival backups... I finally gave up on finding OpenSource apps that would do what I was looking for and figured out how to script dar and rsync. Getting multimedia working was a nightmare. It isn't supposed to be.

    In my experience, getting the right answer back from the various Linux help forums in response to inquiries almost never works, if you can't find the answer via googling to somebody who ran into the same problem, the options are to invent a solution or give up.

    Could Linux multimedia apps that have dependencies that can't be distributed with the distro announce what the problems are and let the user point and click her way to a downloadable solution? Yes, but they don't.

    I don't recommend desktop Linux at this point to anyone but companies who can control what apps and peripherals are used and support everything in-house, or to end users who can get computer help in person from local Linux experts, whether out of friendship or for a high hourly consultant rate.

    Peripheral drivers are a major issue, having the basic set of apps a desktop user needs (multimedia, backup, etc.) are the other.

  8. Re:Built for Linux by CCW · · Score: 1 · on Desktop Linux Survey Results Published

    Can't help with the Wacom tablet, but did you try the turboprint driver for the i9900? (http://www.turboprint.de/english.html). I've used it with my i960 and been fairly happy with the results. Unfortunately Canon doesn't seem willing to release enough info to use their products with linux.

    If you did try it out, please post a response as I'm curious.

  9. Re:Dark Side by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 1 · on Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X

    I have a Canon S520 printer... Sometimes its easier to swap your hardware than argue with it.

    Google reveals that TurboPrint supports your printer. Binary-only freeware support is no worse that Windows and arguably better because all the these drivers are maintained by the same company, but open specifications and supported source code drivers are obviously more desirable.

    I suppose that Canon will eventually realize the importance of providing good Linux support as HP did. In the meantime I agree with your tactic of voting with your dollars and avoiding Canon. HP gets it, get an HP printer.

  10. Good News! (It's not a suppository) by jusdisgi · · Score: 2, Informative · on Professional Photographers Using Linux?

    It does look like there's not an OSS driver that's known to work with the i9900. That's too bad. However, turboprint may work for you...it's moneyware, but if you're currently using Windows you should be used to that. Anyway, that printer is supposed to be fully functional with that driver, so maybe that removes that last barrier for you.

    I hope so. It would be nice to see more people in these desktop intensive industries pick up Linux. I'm not deluded at all about the nubmers; I'd imagine we're lucky to have a tenth of a percent of pro photographers......but if you've got the inclination and a bit of time, there's really not a lot holding you back any more.

  11. Try this by afay · · Score: 3, Informative · on Slow Printing on Linux?

    I know it's not completely free, but you can download a trial version. turboprint. Furthermore, if it works, paying for the full version will run you about the cost of one ink cartridge. WRT the Canon s520, this person had luck.

  12. My 2 cents as a dedicated SuSE user. by oujirou · · Score: 3, Informative · on Suse 9.1 Reviews?
    I have been using SuSE Linux on many machines at office and on all the machines at home since 8.2 came out, and I switched to using SuSE from RedHat, which I've been using since 6.0. Just can't say enough how I love the system, although it of course has its bugs and limitations, of which I will write as well.

    The specs of my hardware at home are rather common: nForce2 chipsets, some old Intel chipsets, some generic noname nVidia GeForces and some old S3 PCI cards to accomodate other monitors, a pile of generic 8139 ethernet cards, a D-Link ADSL modem, and the aforementioned TFT monitors, together with a Canon flatbed scanner and an inkjet printer. I have never had any problems installing the hardware, although I had to use a commercial driver to make my cheap printer work. In SuSE 9.1 installation of several monitors with SaX went absolutely smoothly and if I weren't so picky about DPI settings and such, I could have just used the default XF86Config it made during the installation. NVidia drivers were downloaded by the YaST Online Update application and installed in the background so that I didn't even notice the fact until I ran an OpenGL screensaver and it was really fast! :)

    The installation went smoothly as well. First of all, I am Russian, and I am oh-so-pleased to see my native language back again in YaST since it was missing in 9.0 due to some glitch. What's even better is that now SuSE ships with decent Unicode TrueType fonts with Cyrillics glyphs, so you don't have to stare at ugly bitmap fonts during the installationg, and, again, if one is not very picky, he or she would perfectly go with these bundled fonts without any need to install standard fonts from Microsoft Windows.

    And now for the surprising facts I have discovered so far. Maybe I wasn't reading reviews too carefully, but the default locale is now UTF8. We all remember how bad UTF8 was implemented in RedHat 8.0, and it never became better in RedHat 9.0. It mostly likely won't make any difference for people who don't use Cyrillic characters, but here (in Soviet Russia :) we have had The Encoding Hell for almost two decades now, resulting in U*IX clones using KOI8-R, DOS using CP866, Windows using CP1251 and MacOS using a crippled version of CP1251. You just can't imagine how complex is the task of making heterogeneous networks handle file shares with national characters properly! But surprisingly UTF8 as the default locale in SuSE 9.1 works very well and the only bad thing about it currently is that ncurses and groff think that Cyrillic characters are really two-character wide, thus resulting in slightly broken formatting. Nothing we can't live without. And I can now browse Samba shares from a Windows 2000 machine and see Japanese filenames just fine.

    Fellow font maniacs, beware! If you try to build the latest Freetype (currently 2.1.8), which you most likely will want to do, at least for the sake of turning the bytecode interpreter on -- DO NOT DO IT. GTK1 and other applications using bitmap fonts will crash your X after this! I've investigated the matter and solved the problem. For the curious I can e-mail an explanation, but to cut a long story short now, the steps to take to make sure your fonts look pretty and no applications crash X, do the following:
    1. init 3
    2. Build and install freetype-2.1.5 or freetype-2.1.6 which are essentially the same. Yes, you will need an old version like this.
    3. Replace the following libs in /usr/X11R6/lib/: libXfont, libXft, and libXrender, with the ones from SuSE 9.0.
    4. Run SuSEconfig as root.
    5. init 5

    After that you should have no problems and crashes. I know that's by far not an elegant solution and will greatly appreciate other suggestions!

    Samba 3 on a SuSE 8.2 box and Samba 3 on a SuSE 9.1 box export file ownership and permission data! I don't know why this works and I

  13. Re:This is sorely needed by matrix29 · · Score: 1 · on Making Linux Printing as Easy as in Windows

    How come these small things are always lacking in linux?

    And yet they had this way back in my Amiga days.
    (Though back then I used a spanking-new HP Deskjet 500C)

    http://www.amigapro.com/turboprint7.html

    Go to their website
    http://www.turboprint.de/

  14. Is Epson Stylus Color 480SXU supported? by Hank+Powers · · Score: 1 · on Making Linux Printing as Easy as in Windows

    Their driver list on the website claims that Epson Stylus Color 480 is supported by TurboPrint. I wonder if its (otherwise same, but) USB-only version Stylus Color 480SXU works with it. Does anyone know?

  15. Not a good thing for linux newbies. by halftrack · · Score: 1 · on Making Linux Printing as Easy as in Windows

    This article is based upon the conclusion that someone wants to convert from a windows environment to a linux enviroment. Turbo print is not the solution. People having to buy extra software (that they can see as a part not included in the whole linux package) is not convinient, it just add's extra confusion. I would be more happy if this was a normal (open-source) kernel module or something.

    By the way: Turbo linux is here