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From: Erik Hallsten on 11 Sep 2005 07:57

I have installed canon pixma ip4000 in my machine as:
canon bjc-8200.

Distro: SuSe 9.3 professional

The text printing are OK, but pictures cannot be printer.
Any ideas how to set up cups. I tried from
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
bjfilter-pixusip4000-2.50-2.i386.rpm

I tried to install with Yast but that destroyed KDE.

Any ideas?

Erik
From: Vance on 11 Sep 2005 12:37
Erik Hallsten wrote:
> I have installed canon pixma ip4000 in my machine as:
> canon bjc-8200.
>
> Distro: SuSe 9.3 professional
>
> The text printing are OK, but pictures cannot be printer.
> Any ideas how to set up cups. I tried from
> ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
> bjfilter-pixusip4000-2.50-2.i386.rpm
>
> I tried to install with Yast but that destroyed KDE.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Erik
The pixusip4100 driver will work if you get the dependancies to resolve.
I have this same printer. The only file I need to get it to work is
libpng.so.2 which won't install because it conflicts with a newer
version which the driver won't use.

You will get better printing with the BJC7004 driver for now.

The other driver you need bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm ,
bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50-2.i386.rpm , and
bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm

techbuilder.org has an article by A. Lizard called "Getting widows-based
printers to work with Linux".

Another alternative is Turboprint for linux. That is not gpl software,
so you will have to pay for it. They do offer a trial period, so you can
try it to see if it is going to work for you before paying for it.
From: Vance on 11 Sep 2005 14:16
Vance wrote:
> Erik Hallsten wrote:
>> I have installed canon pixma ip4000 in my machine as:
>> canon bjc-8200.
>>
>> Distro: SuSe 9.3 professional
>>
>> The text printing are OK, but pictures cannot be printer.
>> Any ideas how to set up cups. I tried from
>> ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/
>> bjfilter-pixusip4000-2.50-2.i386.rpm
>>
>> I tried to install with Yast but that destroyed KDE.
>>
>> Any ideas?

I have just succesfully installed the driver. I did it in a terminal as
superuser. You need the three driver files from Canon:
bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm, bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50-2.i386.rpm,
and bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm. My system also needed
libxml and libpng.so.2 to get it to work. Goto rpm.pbone.net and get
these. The libxml if you need it, get for suse 9.2 or 9.1. It will work.
The libpng.so.2 file if you need it, get the one for Mandrake 8.x. It's
the one that worked for me. Install the libs first, then
bjfilter-common, then bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50, then
bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50. After you have installed all of them,
go to yast2 and configure your printer. The ip4100 driver will now be
listed for selection.
From: Erik Hallsten on 13 Sep 2005 19:22
Den Sun, 11 Sep 2005 18:16:46 +0000 skrev Vance:

> Vance wrote:
>> Erik Hallsten wrote:
>>> I have installed canon pixma ip4000 in my machine as:
>>> canon bjc-8200.
>>>
>>> Distro: SuSe 9.3 professional
>
> I have just succesfully installed the driver. I did it in a terminal as
> superuser. You need the three driver files from Canon:
> bjfilter-common-2.50-2.i386.rpm, bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50-2.i386.rpm,
> and bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50-2.i386.rpm. My system also needed
> libxml and libpng.so.2 to get it to work. Goto rpm.pbone.net and get
> these. The libxml if you need it, get for suse 9.2 or 9.1. It will work.
> The libpng.so.2 file if you need it, get the one for Mandrake 8.x. It's
> the one that worked for me. Install the libs first, then
> bjfilter-common, then bjfilter-pixusip4100-2.50, then
> bjfilter-pixusip4100-lprng-2.50. After you have installed all of them,
> go to yast2 and configure your printer. The ip4100 driver will now be
> listed for selection.
My comments:

A My native language; Swedish, it consist about 500000 wwords
I cannot say that I understand all words, and what they means.
I read around 180 sides of a book in an evening.

B My second language is Finnish. The situation is the same,
I read around 130 sides of a book in an evening.

C I use as 3:rd language English. My vocabulary are smaller
than in Swedish or Finnih. My grammar is nearly nil.

Regarding to comments, I howto express my reactions:

D Installation aks for libpng.so.2 file, If I try to install
SuSe 9.3 professional, KDE crasch.

According to that disaster, which command sequence must be
printer in a command window as root?

E My own opinnion are that Canon must be as Hardware
manufacturer by obligated to serve with drivers despite of
which operation system are used.

F I regard the printer problem as an legislation, wich
would force Hardware Manufactures to provide drivers,
despite, Operation System Providers as example:
Microsoft, SuSe, BSD. RedHat, DeBian, FreeDos or
MacIntosh.

Anyone have the right to use pheriphrals despite of Operation
System.

Erik

From: houghi on 13 Sep 2005 18:38
Erik Hallsten wrote:
> My comments:
>
> A My native language; Swedish, it consist about 500000 wwords
> I cannot say that I understand all words, and what they means.
> I read around 180 sides of a book in an evening.
>
> B My second language is Finnish. The situation is the same,
> I read around 130 sides of a book in an evening.
>
> C I use as 3:rd language English. My vocabulary are smaller
> than in Swedish or Finnih. My grammar is nearly nil.

Linus Benedict Torvalds, is that you?

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