monsm

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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

jroon

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!