Hey Meg just wanted to let you know it scans perfectly.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Meg <kimada.news@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Just a couple of comments -
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> --- 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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> <snip>
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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.)
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> > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> 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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