On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:07 pm, James Wilkinson wrote: > Berg, Ivan Michael (Ivan) is having quality problems with XP and his > Canon BJ 200, but not with Fedora. >>> snip > Um. Printers of that era were designed for use with multiple operating > systems. Those were the days of Amigas, STs, Psion organisers, NeXT, > and all sorts of weird, wonderful, and wacky things. Definitely in the > latter category was MS-DOS, an "operating system" so retarded that it > had no concept of printers beyond "shove that ASCII to a printer > port...", so each application had to supply its own drivers. >>> snip IIRC, many manufacturers did not provide drivers for older hardware when XP was released, seeing it as an opportunity to sell the user a shiny new gizmotch. Not sure why a printer company would do that since the money is in the cartridges and not the original purchase, but the BJ200 may well fall into that category. BTW: Who'd 've thunk we'd ever see a posting about hardware not working under Windows but runs just fine with Linux? -- cmg
