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From: ray on 22 Jul 2010 15:05 On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:13:14 +0000, notbob wrote: > On 2010-07-22, ray <ray(a)zianet.com> wrote: > > >> Epson Stylus Photo R350. Samsung, Brother, and Lexmark all provide >> varying levels of support. Canon provides zero. > > Yep. Now, with CUPS, it's shockingly simple. I think it took about 30 > seconds to see/config my Brother 1440 printer. As for Canon, I don't > understand that company. I love Canon cameras, but they should be > flogged around the fleet for their stance on Linux, which as you say, is > zero to none. It's becoming just plain embarrassing a major electronics > company would shun an platform with millions of users. I don't know > about their printers, but the easiest way to deal with their cameras is > to take the camera out of the equation and just plug the memory card in > a card reader. > > nb I routinely use a memory card reader. It's often faster anyway and certainly saves the camera battery. I also don't buy anything Canon - until they straighten their act out.
From: annalissa on 23 Jul 2010 06:25 On Jul 22, 2:14 pm, root <NoEM...(a)home.org> wrote: > notbob <not...(a)nothome.com> wrote: > > On 2010-07-22, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote: > > >> Epson Stylus Photo R350. Samsung, Brother, and Lexmark all provide > >> varying levels of support. Canon provides zero. > > > Yep. Now, with CUPS, it's shockingly simple. I think it took about > > 30 seconds to see/config my Brother 1440 printer. As for Canon, I > > don't understand that company. I love Canon cameras, but they should > > be flogged around the fleet for their stance on Linux, which as you > > say, is zero to none. It's becoming just plain embarrassing a major > > electronics company would shun an platform with millions of users. I > > don't know about their printers, but the easiest way to deal with > > their cameras is to take the camera out of the equation and just plug > > the memory card in a card reader. > > > nb > > I got a friend to consider linux until she found her > Canon high resolution printer was not fully supported. > She stuck with Windows. Good reason to always avoid > Canon. What about Nova 36 e vidar scanner ? Does anyone knows about any linux support for this scanner ??? Their website doesn't mentions anything about linux http://support.vidar.com/swcompatibility/default.htm
From: Henrik Carlqvist on 23 Jul 2010 07:12 annalissa <aarklon(a)gmail.com> wrote: > What about Nova 36 e vidar scanner ? > > Does anyone knows about any linux support for this scanner ??? > Their website doesn't mentions anything about linux > http://support.vidar.com/swcompatibility/default.htm The place to look for scanner support in Linux is http://www1.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html Nope, the Nova vidar scanner isn't listed so you assume that it is most likely not supported. regards Henrik -- The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost
From: annalissa on 24 Jul 2010 01:15 On Jul 23, 7:12 am, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...(a)deadspam.com> wrote: > annalissa <aark...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > What about Nova 36 e vidar scanner ? > > > Does anyone knows about any linux support for this scanner ??? > > Their website doesn't mentions anything about linux > > http://support.vidar.com/swcompatibility/default.htm > > The place to look for scanner support in Linux ishttp://www1.sane-project..org/sane-mfgs.html > > Nope, the Nova vidar scanner isn't listed so you assume that it is most > likely not supported. > > regards Henrik > -- > The address in the header is only to prevent spam. My real address is: > hc3(at)poolhem.se Examples of addresses which go to spammers: > root(a)localhost postmaster(a)localhost I think there should be a linux project which will produce a utility very similar to ndiswrapper , so that we can use windows scanner drivers for linux as well or in other words we can use win scanners in linux as well
From: B Sellers on 24 Jul 2010 02:17
On 07/22/2010 12:35 AM, annalissa wrote: > Hi all, > > My friend is of the argument that he will buy only H.P printers, > because of the HPLIP (Hewlett Packard > Linux Imaging project) where H.P developers work to make open source > drivers available for linux and BSD. > This is probably the only instance where the device manufacturers > works on fully free open sourced projects which support the full > functionality (not merely the just works bit) > > how correct is his argument ? > does this mean that HP is the only Printer company that provides Linux > driver support for its devices ? > > what about the epson associate avasys (http://www.avasys.jp) ? > > Is there any other company which provides similar support ? Well I bought an Epsom NX515 inkjet with scanner and copying function. With my recent install of Mandriva 2010 Spring I was able to get it fully functional with the drivers from the Epson associate Avasys. <http://www.avasys.jp> I also had to seek out information on the net about getting x-sane working but at least the scanner was visible to the computer and vice versa which had not been the case previously on 2009.1. later bliss |