Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer
Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com
Mon Sep 13 02:47:08 PDT 2004
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:47:51 -0500 Ned Harrison <ned.woody at cox.net>
wrote:
|>Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:47:51 -0500
|>From: Ned Harrison <ned.woody at cox.net>
|>Subject: Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer
|>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
|>Message-ID: <41446197.20301 at cox.net>
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|>I dual boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Redhat Linux 9. I am trying to set up
|>my printer which is a Canon S520 to print on the FreeBSD side.
|>Running apsfilter SETUP I can get the printer to respond but the quality
|>of the test prints have been poor. On my Linux side, however, the
|>printer runs fine using one of the Cannon BJP printers and a Omni print
|>driver.
|>
|>When I ran apsfilter SETUP in FreeBSD I found the same printer but I
|>don't have the Omni drivers installed. I've searched through my
|>installation disks and looked through the ports but did not find any
|>reference to Omni drivers.
|>
|>Where would I find these drivers? Are they in the Ports under a
|>different name? Or should I just break down and buy a new printer? If
|>there is another way to get this printer up an running, I'm willing to
|>give it a try.
|>
|>Thanks
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Monday, September 13, 2004 5:42:12 AM
I do not know if this will be of any help or not, but you might want to
check it out. This is the URL where I located a driver for my Canon S630
printer.
< http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi >
Good Luck!
Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com
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