>-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby >Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:51 PM >To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network perfectly,Windows XP does not >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? Canon only has Win3.x/95/98/Me drivers available, but Win2k/XP ships with the MS certified drivers. Yea, since my wife uses the WinXP box, so I can be really proud of my Linux box printing perfectly when Windows cannot! There is one for Linux, may the open source gods be with me!!! :) -- cmg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
