On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:27, Tom Zych wrote: > I just bought a Canon BJ-200 printer and I'm trying to get it > working with Debian. There's a tremendous amount of stuff to learn > about: CUPS, Foomatic, PPDs, etc etc. It would probably take me > days to wade through it all and make sense of it. I don't have > days; I have to print some resumes and cover letters, NOW. > > Can anyone point me toward a step-by-step howto, for Debian, > OpenOffice, and GhostScript, that will simply tell me what I need > to do? > > Thanks very much, > -- > Tom Zych > This email address will expire at some point to thwart spammers. > Permanent address is rot13(gbzmlpu@cbobk.pbz). It is a BJ-200 B&W inkjet printer, or an S200? >From www.linuxprinting.org: Canon BJ-200 Printer Type Resolution Works? Canon BW Perfectly BJ-200 Inkjet 360x360 Notes Prints fine in linux. Printer does not support PJL. Printer supports direct text printing with the `us-ascii' charset. Refill: $30 for cartridges No known autodetection methods. This information has been proofread. Canon's history of cooperation with the free software community may be found on the vendor report card page. You can participate in the LinuxPrinting.org Canon discussion forum here on the web, via NNTP, or by email. Driver Information Recommended driver: bj200 bj200 Type: Ghostscript omni General driver notes: This page provides data for the Omni driver versions 0.7.0 and 0.7.1. There are no additional printers supported by Omni 0.7.1. The Omni printer driver provides support for over 400 printers using the Ghostscript framework. In addition, it provides a model for dynamically loading printer drivers, creating new devices by editing device description files, and simplifies new printer driver development by allowing for the subclassing device features. The driver supports very many dot matrix printer models, but also many inkjets and lasers. Note that GIMP-Print gives a much higher output quality on inkjets than this driver, and that it is rather slow on lasers. Some printers listed as supported by it may even not work at all. Many printers supported by this driver were not entered into the Foomatic database. For these printers an automatically created entry is added to the database. As the driver not knowing all of the capabilities of the printers, parts of the information presented in these entries can be wrong. The entries are marked appropriately so that they can be easily distinguished from "real" printer entries. The problem is, I haven't seen any BJ series printers for sale for some time - I presume this one is used? The only other 200 is the S200, which I bought seven months ago - it is now an HP DeskJet 656c, because the S200 was effectively a paperweight - the inks would not line up. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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