Just a couple of comments -
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Scott <scottro@...> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:45:35AM -0000, Meg wrote:
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> > The reason I say "most of the time" is that the print driver stops the print process if it thinks one of the cartridges is low on ink - even when there's plenty of ink left.
>
> I've seen things like that, but it's usually been the printer's, rather
> than the driver's, fault. One can check by going into the printer's web
> interface--the majority of them have one--and checking what the printer
> says.
I guess I'm not seeing the difference between the printer and the driver - probably due to my ignorance. That's OK. But I also don't know what you mean by a web interface. What would that tell me? (Maybe my printer doesn't have one; it's about 8 years old.)
> It's reading the things on the side of the cartridge, of course, just like the driver does in Windows, but instead of just giving me a message that I can click out of it stops the entire process. This means that I have to boot into Windows if I want to print anything, until I replace the cartridge with a new one.
> >
> Ok, I don't think I've run into that. IMVAO (VA as in very arrogant)
> printing is something that whether due to the vendors worrying more
> about Windows, or something else, that Windows really does better than
> most other systems, and I include Apple in that--I remember upgrading my
> wife's machine to Apple Snow Leopard, and printing stopped working.
> (Apple by the way, now owns cups, which is what the vast majority of
> Unix like systems now use for printing.)
I agree; when my last laptop died, at the beginning of December, I first bought a used (refurbished) MacBook. One of the reasons I returned it was that Snow Leopard wouldn't work with my printer either. At the time I got the impression that this was because the printer was so old. But Snow Leopard also wouldn't work with my wireless modem, so I couldn't print *or* connect to the internet. That MacBook was the prettiest useless computer I've ever owned. (And one of the most expensive.)
I have heard of cups, but really don't know anything about it except that it is somehow related to printing.
> > As for Simple Scan - it will periodically just close when I try to start the scanning process. This seems to be related to stopping a prior scan before it had finished (for example, if I had something small on the glass and wanted to save time). As long as I don't do that it seems to work fine. I think it may actually be easier on the motor than the Windows driver, because it needs only one pass; there's no prescan. But then Simple Scan has no way to make adjustments; you just scan, then crop and save.
> >
> Xsane is a more sophisticated program. Most of the time, the more
> sophisticated drivers are for Windows and Apple, (and sometimes just
> Windows, with Apple, as well as Linux, being a step child), and one will
> find that while Linux will scan, it won't be able to use various
> features.
My knowledge of Xsane is about the same as with cups - I've heard of it and know it's related to scanning, but that's about it.
I should mention that I don't have a problem with not being able to make adjustments before scanning. I just do it afterward with Picasa or Gimp, or I go over to Windows and use Irfanview. I just finished scanning all my old photos. Some of them were in really bad shape, faded or turning red, so they would have needed more adjusting than scan software would have done anyway.
William, I'm glad you've at least got print capability. Good luck with the scanning part.
Meg
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