Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network perfectly, Windows XP does not

[Berg, Ivan Michael (Ivan)]

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby
>Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:51 PM
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>Subject: Re: Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network
perfectly,Windows XP does not

>On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:07 pm, James Wilkinson wrote:
>> Berg, Ivan Michael (Ivan) is having quality problems with XP and his 
>> Canon BJ 200, but not with Fedora.

>>>> snip

>> Um. Printers of that era were designed for use with multiple
operating 
>> systems. Those were the days of Amigas, STs, Psion organisers, NeXT, 
>> and all sorts of weird, wonderful, and wacky things. Definitely in
the 
>> latter category was MS-DOS, an "operating system" so retarded that it

>> had no concept of printers beyond "shove that ASCII to a printer 
>> port...", so each application had to supply its own drivers.

>>>> snip

>IIRC, many manufacturers did not provide drivers for older hardware
when XP was released, seeing it as an opportunity to sell the user a
shiny new  gizmotch. Not sure why a printer company would do that since
the money is in the cartridges and not the original purchase, but the
BJ200 may well fall into that category.

>BTW: Who'd 've thunk we'd ever see a posting about hardware not working
under Windows but runs just fine with Linux?

Canon only has Win3.x/95/98/Me drivers available, but Win2k/XP ships
with the MS certified drivers.

Yea, since my wife uses the WinXP box, so I can be really proud of my
Linux box printing perfectly when Windows cannot! There is one for
Linux, may the open source gods be with me!!! :)


-- cmg


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