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HP DJ 1000 problems
KenK writes:
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote in : KenK writes: "David H. Lipman" wrote in : From: "KenK" /../ I recently bought a Canon Pixma MG3122 for ~$50 and it's a piece of crap too. sigh Hi, can you be specific about the problems with the Canon printer? Perhaps I'm being too critical but I'm just full up to here with printer problems. Before now I've never had any, and that's been some 40 years - since the MITS Altair and Radio Shack TRS-80!. Hi there, oldtimer :-) That is more experience than I have, so I can't argue with your perspective! I'm interested because I develop drivers for Canon under linux, and while these low-end MG series devices (using just 2 cartridges) are indeed cheap, they have a nice feature in that one can print in black-only, by choosing to use only the black cartridge (and removing the other one if needed, since printing photos will ignore the cartridge selection again---black-only works only for certain media: plain media, non-photo postcard media, and envelopes). Wasn't aware of that. Does this work under Win XP Home too? Sadly, not easily. So this is just background info for you: The standard printing system on linux and MacOSX is called CUPS, and is developed (after being bought) by Apple. There are some ports to Windows, but not recent or updated regularly. The open source inkjet drivers for Epson and Canon are contained in a project known as gutenprint. I am currently maintaining and developing the Canon part of this. Effectively, without any input from Canon, I work by parsing printjobs captured under Windows XP, using all possible combinations of print media, quality setting, color/mono, duplex, media tray and borderless. As needed, new functionality is incorporated, and as time permits, lacking functionality added and thereby automatically backported to all existing supported printers. So if you have an old printer that is no longer supported under Windows 7, for example, it will forever be supported in open source. A strength of CUPS is that is manages printers over a network, and has great administration facilities. So it is not necessary to have a driver for a printer on the machine you are printing from, only the machine where the printer is attached. A downside of CUPS is that it is not interactive: that is, options are not interactive like in Windows---all options are always available, and the driver has to do the work of prioritizing and selecting which combinations are legitimate or not, if the user made incompatible (from the printer firmware perspective) selections. This is usually not a problem, but can be, in such complex devices as, for example, ALPS printers with multiple operating modes. In such situtations, multiple PPDs, one for each distinct operating mode, are the best idea, and a new printer is set up for each mode (the same could be done if you have some fixed requirements, such as monochrome printing 2-pages per sheet in draft mode; compared to color printing at standard quality 1-page per sheet). Enough of that :-) If there is something you do not like about them, could you post it here? I haven't got one of these latest devices myself, but it could well be that your needs are not best met by this type, and I might be able to recommend something instead. First problem was it would only feed paper if there were only a few sheets - 5 or 10 or so - in the blank paper tray. Just yesterday I discovered and tried the 'clean rollers' in the Maintenance menu. Today I can print with a stack of paper in the tray. Hope it works through the whole stack and continues in the future. OK, that is probably mechanical-related, not much the driver can do about that I surmise. Second problem is that it sometimes doesn't print when I send it something. Seems to be mostly a problem with my ancient Xnews newsreader which doesn't use the usual dialog box to print - just does it. The Canon is selected in Control Panel as default printer. Haven't quite sorted out everything - seems to be a problem when used first after switching printers but not sure. The problem is erratic and I need to have much more experience with it. This morning tried printing from Xnews first thing with no problems! shrug I've not used the Canon that much. Windows spooling has problems sometimes. Could also be memory issues on the spool or in the application creating the printjob. It isn't really fair to blame the printer for this, but you could blame the driver if it doesn't send the job properly (if indeed that is the cause of the problem. All in all, not that bad, but annoying after decades of no printer problems. Understandable. Thanks very much for you kind offer of help. No worries! If you ever decide to use MacOSX or linux, you can rest assured there is plenty of printer support! -- Gernot Hassenpflug |
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HP DJ 1000 problems
I do have a page with the problems that had I saved.
Use this http://www.wikiupload.com/ and upload the scanned page. |
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