- Multifunction printers - 2 Updates
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Aug 24 11:03AM -0700 On Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:12:59 -0700, The Real Bev >available, and conversions are sometimes iffy), but the suggestion >(somewhere in the flailing process) that the control panel on the >printer would give the new IP address was the magic solution to the problem. If you do that, you might as well configure the printer for a pre-allocated IP address or a static IP address. I prefer pre-allocated. >I was really impressed with Brother's linux support with my previous >super-cheap laser printer. Not so much with this one. Still, much >better than nothing. That would be a HL-L2395DW. I haven't had any experience with that model. >Does Canon still spit on linux? I don't think Canon knows what Linux is. Nothing on Canon's web pile. This page describes the typical ordeal process: <https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/install-canon-printer-drivers-on-linux> I had one customer with a Canon imageCLASS something color laser office printer. They had to hide any evidence that Linux was being used in the office when the authorized service center tech was on-site or they would (unofficially) refuse to work on the printer. My guess(tm) is that your Linux problems are buried in Brother's implementation of IPP. CUPS uses IPP to deliver printing that does NOT require installing a printer specific driver: <https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting> If one model printer works, but another model printer does not, it's mostly likely a problem with the printers implementation of IPP. Not much you can do about that except to check for printer firmware updates. Since the lower end Brother laser printers cost only a little more than a service call, I often suggested that buying a newer model would solve the printing problem. I've only done that maybe 5 times, but it worked every time. Incidentally, Apple AirPrint also uses IPP and can have similar problems. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 25 08:32AM -0700 On 8/24/23 11:03 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >>better than nothing. > That would be a HL-L2395DW. I haven't had any experience with that > model. The HL2170 (I think; cheapest one they made) came with CUPS and linux drivers on the disk. So did the previous cheap Samsung, which was always a dog and insisted on wrinkling paper. The disk with the 2395 had NOTHING except windows and mac stuff, but included the repair tools you mentioned previously. I think there was some sort of automatic setup when I turned on the 2395, but I just don't remember where its info came from. Maybe when CUPS updated when I upgraded to Slackware 14.2. Just a guess. >>Does Canon still spit on linux? > I don't think Canon knows what Linux is. Nothing on Canon's web pile. > This page describes the typical ordeal process: I've got a chaap Canoscan scanner that does slides. Nice device, but I had to use windows with it. SANE has some capability now, maybe even full, but I haven't used it since 2005. Damn, I had to go look at the dates on the files. I seem to remember making a phone call and being told "We do not support linux" in a rather stuffy voice as if I'd asked him about his porn preferences. > office printer. They had to hide any evidence that Linux was being > used in the office when the authorized service center tech was on-site > or they would (unofficially) refuse to work on the printer. See above reference to porn... I liked my Canon camera too (with serious exception regarding its battery contacts), but I had to take the card out and read it separately. Not a big problem, but still... > model would solve the printing problem. I've only done that maybe 5 > times, but it worked every time. Incidentally, Apple AirPrint also > uses IPP and can have similar problems. We have 3 slackware machines feeding the printer wirelessly via the router. Two of them work, one obstinately refuses. The windows machine is connected via USB and is no problem at all. I haven't tried printing from my phone. We've temporarily given up getting the third machine to print; workarounds exist. I can't scan to my computer using the buttons on the printer; it just doesn't see a PC and there seems to be no way to tell it there is one. I could email it to myself or send it to dropbox et al., of course. Or turn on the winmachine and then transfer the files to my REAL computer... Fortunately Xsane works. I have to wonder if a more user-friendly distribution would just take care of the nastiness all by itself... -- Cheers, Bev "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." -- Alexander Tyler (Unverified) |
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