From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 21:37: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6598037B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:37:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 56672 invoked by uid 100); 26 Jan 2002 05:37:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15442.16508.192099.626294@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:37:00 -0600 To: Andrew Gould Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canon BJC-1000 In-Reply-To: <20020126025724.2341.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com> References: <15442.3320.475484.557084@guru.mired.org> <20020126025724.2341.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Context recovered from top posting.] Andrew Gould types: > --- Mike Meyer > > Someone just gave me a Canon BJC-1000, and I'm hoping that someone > > here has experience with that creature and FreeBSD. In particular, > > I saw a bunch of commits to the port tree of softtware that did > > photo-quality rendering with various printers, but can't seem to > > find any of that software now. Can I get reasonable color prints out > > of the thing with FreeBSD, or should I use it as ballast? > The url below has some driver info for the Canon > BJC-1000. The website is geared towards Linux; but > I'm under the impression that printing issues are > pretty much the same for FreeBSD and Linux. (Please > correct me if I'm mistaken.) > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=139017 Yes, printing issues are pretty much the same. That told me which drivers to use for this printer, and checking the ghostscript ports shows that it already includes a couple of the appropriate drivers, if I turn them on. Thanks, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message