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Canon Canon PIXMA iP4000 Printer
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I have made recent significant positive discoveries concerning the useability of the PIXMA iP4000 Canon printer with one of the newest distributions of Linux, Linux Mandrake v10.1, which was recently renamed Linux Mandriva. I shall submit them in proper form to a Linux user group forum to replace the current negative misinformation circulating on the internet with my personal positive experimental results.
As a courtesy, I am enclosing a summary of these discoveries to Canon technical support at this time before submitting my findings to any Linux user forums. I fully realize that what I am suggesting is a work around which should only be used on an emergency basis until the proper drivers have been meticulously designed and beta tested for safe and effective use with a new printer such as mine.
1. By simply looking at a list of Canon Printers and the stated properties of the ink tanks which they specify, I made the simple discovery that I could select the Canon S500 printer in Linux Mandrake v10.1's KDE hardware configuration daemon to properly drive the Canon PIXMA iP4000 for all grayscale text printing from barely legible to draft to normal quality at 600 dpi.
2. Similarly, I discovered that I could select the Canon S800 printer in Linux Mandrake's KDE hardware configuration daemon to properly drive the Canon PIXMA iP4000 in Linux Mandrake for all photographic color applications, again from barely visible to extremely high quality at 1200 dpi.
Please do not do as I did and dispair and complain about the lack of support for new Canon hardware's use in Linux distributions to Canon technical support before taking the time to consider the implications of my personal discoveries concerning the state of hardware driver availability in Linux.
Finally, I would submit for discussion that most modern distributions of Linux would provide similar work arounds for most other new brands of printers to those I found in Canon's case using KDE v3.2 to access Linux Mandrake v10.1's hardware daemon. Finally, I must acknowledge those persons whose contributions of working Linux hardware drivers for Canon printers made my little work around a possibility in the first place.
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Linux Work Around for Canon PIXMA iP4000 Printer Driver
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01-17-2006, 05:22 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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There are 2 drivers available for the Pixma printers (well the ip4000 and a few others anyway).
Canon has actually got some drivers under the name Pixus ip4100 (which is the name used for Pixma ip4000 in east asia). See posting on ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38995
I would however say the drivers from http://www.turboprint.info are better, although you have to pay a small amount for them (only about 30 Euros though). Easier to install than the Canon ones and they seem to support more of the functionality.
I guess it says some things about Canon that a third party has better drivers then themselves. Turboprint is good though. I had no problem using the lpd printing to my Vigor 2600G router. Install the turboprint driver and set gateway ip and e.g. the default p1 queue name as described in the windows documentation. In fact, I'd say Windows installation was more complicated this time :-)
Mons
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09-30-2007, 04:25 PM
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Registered: May 2004
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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I was happy with this printer in Windows, but was having trouble in Linux. Mon's suggestion to use Canon s800 drivers looks like it's going to work for now. This is the only driver I've found that works for Windows Picasa in Wine on my Kubuntu Feisty install.
Thanks, Mons!
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