[Eug-lug] Canon Pixma i3000 on Ubuntu 6.10

[B. Gallagher]

I poked around the Ubuntu hardware wiki and there is an iP3000 reference 
and how-to.  I know Ubuntu is for beginners and it is; beginning to work 
as a desktop alternate.

One bug noted: Linux drivers only work for the top paper tray.

Brian


Bob Miller wrote:
> B. Gallagher wrote:
>
>   
>> I see that Ubuntu 6.10 finds my Canon Pixma i3000 as a i4000, but prints 
>> a workable test page.  For now I am going to use it.  Anyone here if 
>> that was a bad thing, as in hard on the hardware?
>>     
>
> Is that a printer?  If so, don't worry about it.  hplip thinks my
> HP Photosmart C6150 is a C6100, but everything works.
>
> We got two new printers at home this year.  The HP is an all-in-one
> printer/scanner/copier/FAX, and we also got a Brother HL-5250DN,
> which is a laser printer with duplexing unit.
>
> With our old printers, printing was always iffy.  On any given day,
> from any given workstation, you had about a 30% chance that printing
> would work.  With the new ones (and some Linux upgrades), we plugged
> stuff in and it just worked.  Both printers are on the network, and
> both print just fine from all our Linux boxes.  The HP also works for
> scanning, both single sheets and from the document feeder.
>
> We have seen a couple of glitches, but now they're the exception, not
> the rule.  I've sent one FAX, but haven't had occasion to receive one
> yet.  (Not sure how to do it, either.)
>
> So I'm impressed.  Linux's printer (and scanner/FAX) support is hugely
> improved over the old days.
>
>