I guess I have learned my lesson. I was suppose to buy the cheapest HP deskjet but the quality of the printer is not that good anymore unlike previous models. The Canon printer looked more sturdy but at the cost of being unusable in Kubuntu/Linux. Hoping to be successful using alien or cups as Cocoy suggested.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Peter Loh Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:18 PM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: Re: [plug] Printer Support and Compatibility Had the same problem with iPIXMA IP1000 before. I'm never buying Canon again. On 4/30/07, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 04 30, 07, at 2:19 PM, Gerald Cenir wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am running on Kubuntu Edgy and bought a Canon Pixma iP1300 printer. As > usual, it doesn't have a driver for Linux included in the CD so I browsed > the net for drivers. I found a driver but it is in rpm. I just found out > that rpm can be converted to deb package using a utility called alien. I'll > try it out tomorrow and hoping it would work. > > > > Just a side note, I hope hardware manufacturers would also include Linux > drivers. I mean, I already gave them business by buying their product, so > what's keeping them from supporting the OS I have so I can use their product > without headache. > > just in case your thing doesn't work: try also cups (www.cups.org), if it > works for you. cups is Common Unix Printing System. > > ------------ > Cocoy Dayao > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > big mango - http://arkangel1a.blogspot.com > "People who are really serious about software should make their own > hardware." --Alan Kay > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
