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Printing in Linux w/ Canon BJC-255sp's?
Hmmm...this seems to be
printer-driver-question day.
Vesuvian Doppleganger asks:
"Where can I find Linux drivers for a
Canon BJC-255SP colour bubble jet printer?
The canon sites don't offer any
Linux/UNIX support and an exhaustive search
of the net has turned up nothing.... "
You might try Ghostscript...
Not the GNU version -- Try the Aladdin version (version 5.50)....
It has support for the Cannon BJ10e, BJ200, BJC-600, BJC-4000, BJC-70, BJC-800, and BJ300...
See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/ or http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/al addin/devices.html
I've got my epson stylus photo 700 set up with a ghostscript filter through /etc/printcap and lpr/lpd. It works great. One just has to remember to send postscript, not plaintext, to the printer. Programs like nenscript are useful for this...
Did you have to do anything (else) to get the BJC-250 up?
Has anybody succeeded in using ghostscript with either of these two printers? The documentation mentions something about BJC-70, which looks like an older version of these two. No, I haven't tried it - I am not going to buy one unless I know there is a reasonable chance I will be able to use it.
Ghostscript also works with a tool called xbubblejet- it was developed for a BJC-4200- but I have it working on other canon printers like a BJ-610 and a BJC-250. You may be able to tune it for the specific canon printer. The source is at: http://www.butera.org/xbubblejet/ I use the sample filter script for lpd with LPRng to format the output with ghostscript. -bill
I just did it this weekend, and it works flawlessly. Get the Aladdin Ghostscript. It will come with a whole slew of bjc610nX.upp files, where n=a or b and X= 0-7. There's a different driver for every resolution(360 & 720)/paper type combination.
This gets hairy, because the GS command to print, for example, 720x720 on coated paper is something like:
gs @bjc610b2.upp -sOutputFile foo.pdf -c -quit
So I made a bunch of shell scripts for different resolutions/paper types, which shortens the command to "7c foo.pdf" Much better. Simple, really.
I suppose if I wanted to work at being really lazy I could make multiple printer icons on my KDE desktop and have drag'n'drop printing for every resolution/paper type. =D Right now I have 1 icon set at a "rough draft" setting (360 dpi, high speed, plain paper).
Here is a listing of the BJC-610 uniprint drivers, what they do, etc.
This should do ya up right proper-like. Have fun!
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Okay, I got Linux installed. So where's the free beer everyone keeps talking about??
Just wondering if similar drivers would work for all the features of the Bjc-4400. Also wondering about getting the scanner cartrage (IS-22) working under linux.
Yeah, I use GNU-GS and a Canon BJC-610, but I can't get color working... would aladin GS help? B+W works fine with the BJC-600 driver, but there isn't any BJC-610 driver that I've seen...