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From: Bob Macpherson on 23 Jul 2007 00:28 Folks, Has anyone heard or know of a printer driver for a Canon MF5750? I contacted Canon but of course they don't have one. Bob
From: Christopher Hunter on 23 Jul 2007 00:40 Bob Macpherson wrote: > Has anyone heard or know of a printer driver for a Canon MF5750? I > contacted Canon but of course they don't have one. Canon are the most miserable bunch of clueless fools, and I refuse to ever buy any of their products after the grief I had with two of them. They refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists. You /might/ be able to get a driver at www.turboprint.de - if they don't have one, you can request that they build one for you! They charge ?29.95 for the software, though there's a free trial version. I swapped my expensive Canon printer / scanner with a neighbour for a slightly cheaper HP one. The HP outperforms the Canon in every way, and HP provide proper Linux drivers for it! Chris
From: Bob Macpherson on 23 Jul 2007 00:52 Christopher Hunter wrote: > Bob Macpherson wrote: > >> Has anyone heard or know of a printer driver for a Canon MF5750? I >> contacted Canon but of course they don't have one. > > Canon are the most miserable bunch of clueless fools, and I refuse to ever > buy any of their products after the grief I had with two of them. They > refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists. > > You /might/ be able to get a driver at www.turboprint.de - if they don't > have one, you can request that they build one for you! They charge ?29.95 > for the software, though there's a free trial version. > > I swapped my expensive Canon printer / scanner with a neighbour for a > slightly cheaper HP one. The HP outperforms the Canon in every way, and HP > provide proper Linux drivers for it! > > Chris > > Chris, Many thanks for the info. I'll certainly give it a try Bob
From: Andrew Ed on 23 Jul 2007 03:57 "Bob Macpherson" <wrmac(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:13a8d0ph78vsq44(a)corp.supernews.com... > Christopher Hunter wrote: >> Bob Macpherson wrote: >> >>> Has anyone heard or know of a printer driver for a Canon MF5750? I >>> contacted Canon but of course they don't have one. >> >> Canon are the most miserable bunch of clueless fools, and I refuse to >> ever >> buy any of their products after the grief I had with two of them. They >> refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists. >> >> You /might/ be able to get a driver at www.turboprint.de - if they don't >> have one, you can request that they build one for you! They charge >> ?29.95 >> for the software, though there's a free trial version. >> >> I swapped my expensive Canon printer / scanner with a neighbour for a >> slightly cheaper HP one. The HP outperforms the Canon in every way, and >> HP >> provide proper Linux drivers for it! >> >> Chris > Chris, > > Many thanks for the info. I'll certainly give it a try If there is a Canon OSX driver for Macintosh then you may be in luck for getting one for your Linux machine sorted relatively quickly. Having worked for Canon in the UK for 17 years before going self employed I have to say that they aren't a bunch of miserable clueless fools, however, as a corporation they do not support Unix and Linux very well. When they were new out the sales department went to sell an IR6000 complete with folder finisher and all the kit fitted in to a purely Linux environment, Head office in the UK said NO, sorry we don't support it. As their first systems support engineer I was asked by sales to try and see if it could be done. I took my Mandrake 7.x machine in to the national training school and set it up with full functionality in under 20 minutes. I ran a demo for the sales dept of my branch and to the trainers. That was several years ago, I left nearly 4 years ago and I still get calls from technicians asking for help on customers running Linux. As a corporation they do not see the critical mass required to believe it worth the investment of finances. When they do they will produce the software needed. It is their loss as they are already behind the competition. We only use Epson or HP peripherals ourselves and even if the software was available I wouldn't change because the output quality of prints or scans are no better and the Canon units are more expensive, they aren't even better built or more reliable. In the UK the Canon printers cost more for the inks than the Epsons although friends in Canada and the USA say it is different over there. As well as software drivers I would recommend producing some running cost comparison tables for locally available consumables. An Epson CX3650 I picked up from Ebay worked straight out the box on Mandriva for printing and scanning (Scanning across a network from a Windows PC using Xsane for Windows even works) it replaced a Canon multipass that only worked on Windows 9.x and nothing else. Andrew Ed
From: ray on 23 Jul 2007 10:49
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:40:03 +0000, Christopher Hunter wrote: > Bob Macpherson wrote: > >> Has anyone heard or know of a printer driver for a Canon MF5750? I >> contacted Canon but of course they don't have one. > > Canon are the most miserable bunch of clueless fools, and I refuse to ever > buy any of their products after the grief I had with two of them. They > refuse to acknowledge that Linux exists. > > You /might/ be able to get a driver at www.turboprint.de - if they don't > have one, you can request that they build one for you! They charge ?29.95 > for the software, though there's a free trial version. > > I swapped my expensive Canon printer / scanner with a neighbour for a > slightly cheaper HP one. The HP outperforms the Canon in every way, and HP > provide proper Linux drivers for it! > > Chris I have found good deals on printers at the Epson online store. And drivers at avasys.jp |