On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> Is anyone using any of the combination printer/fax/copier units
> with linux? There are some units where the fax and copier features
> explicitly state that the pc is not required. But I'm concerned that
> the printer is some kind of win-printer similar to the win-modems. Does
> anyone have any experience with these? I'm looking at HP, Canon, and
> Xerox combination units, but so far their tech support has been pretty
> lame. ("You don't have win95, I've never had anyone ask about solaris
> or linux. Why do you want it on a network with an HP JetDirect print
> server?")
>
> I downloaded the hamm magicfilter, but I didn't see anything to support
> the combo units. Any web resource suggestions would be welcome.
Ask tech support if it works with DOS (that they hopefully understand).
I'm using the Canon MultiPASS C2500. It has a switch which puts it into
the straight printer mode (for DOS). This emulates the BJC-4100, which
works with the BJC-600 driver in ghostscript.
This printer is not on the list for magicfilter, but I found a convenient
way to use it is to make a copy of one of the other filters (I used the
bj200) and change the two lines containing "-sDEVICE=bj200" to
"-sDEVICE=bjc600". I named this bjc600-filter and now it shows up on the
list when running magicfilterconfig.
Bob
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