Hi ! I own a Canon S500 (4 Color Inkjet printer). Canon has ultimately poor support for linux i'll never by a Canon-product again. Unfortunately i bought this one before i abandoned my windows and now i'm stuck with some average drivers of my Fedora linux (FC5). No nozzle check/alignment, no printhead cleaning and bad color-setup/correction. I tried turboprint.de drivers and are they much better, but i won't pay 30? just for a printing-driver. Canons windows-drivers are very good. So here's my question: Is it possible to use wine with windows-printer-drivers ? And if it is, has anybody tried it with a Canon-printer ? Thx, Juve
Hi Juve Have you looked at this?; http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S500 I cant help with your actual question tho! Cheers Bob juve wrote:> > Hi ! > I own a Canon S500 (4 Color Inkjet printer). Canon has ultimately poor > support for linux i'll never by a Canon-product again.
juve <juvanus@gmx.de> wrote:> Canons windows-drivers are very good. So here's my question: Is it > possible to use wine with windows-printer-drivers ? And if it is, has > anybody tried it with a Canon-printer ?Very unlikely. Wine uses CUPS to print, therefore the whole framework for drivers under windows is unavailable. Daniel
Thx Bob, but the linuxprinting.org drivers are already included in FC5, and they are no match for the windows-driver or the turboprint-driver. They are (as mentioned above) only average and have less features and a bad color-setup/correction. The windows-drivers are far superior. Juve
Daniel Skorka wrote:> Very unlikely. Wine uses CUPS to print, therefore the whole framework > for drivers under windows is unavailable. > > DanielI thought wine maybe can use my printer privileged as an usbdevice, like in qemu. Afaik wine can use some usbdevices like digicams or usb-storages with their shipped drivers. (in qemu it works like this: rmmod usblp, start winxp@qemu, "mount" the usb-printer to qemu -> install canondriver -> print success.)