Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 June 2015 15:41:03 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 13:55:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:41:03 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > Ah. It's not the "driver"? It's the scheduler which is misbehaving, > > In what way? > > i might have lead you to believe that it was the driver, so my mistake. > > so can

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 20:41:03 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Windows was no problem at all for the pri

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:26:42 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. > > > > Which version of Windows? Or are you sayi

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 11:21:26 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:10:58 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > > 99.99% of users have no problem with a supported printer > > really ? i thought it was 99.93%. I receive your correction. Let's split the difference and agree on 99.96%.

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 10:06:21 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. > > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers > for > all versions of Windows? In my expe

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-13 Thread briand
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 20:10:58 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Jun 2015 at 21:16:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > > > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > > > Windows. While CUPS may send

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Jun 2015 at 21:16:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > > Windows. While CUPS may send you looking for a driver sometimes, it's > > far worse for Window

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-12 11:06 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers > for > all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away > when the version of Windows changes and there is no driver for that version. > After you have

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 June 2015 05:16:51 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Windows was no problem at all for the printer i have. Which version of Windows? Or are you saying that your printer has drivers for all versions of Windows? In my experience, you have to throw things away when the version of Windows c

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread briand
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > Windows. While CUPS may send you looking for a driver sometimes, it's > far worse for Windows where the manufacturers often don't produce > updated drivers for the latest

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 11:03 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 04:57 PM, Gary Dale wrote: In fact the entire process is really just a bash script to take the picture, crop and rotate it, then send it to the print queue. A piece of cake compared to trying to do it in Windows. Hi Gary, With of lo

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jun 2015 at 22:05:23 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200 > notoneofmyseeds wrote: > > > On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > Another illustration of this: > > > > > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to >

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 05:24 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 07:05 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had simila

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/11/2015 07:05 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had similar miserable experiences setting up cups and my

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread briand
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200 notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > Another illustration of this: > > > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to > > someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. > > S

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Another illustration of this: "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Nev

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 12:16 +0200, notoneofmy wrote: > And the hat's off to Sven Arvidsson for this really, truly, wonderful, > no hassle find. > > Awesome. I just printed the test page in less than 5 minutes. > > When you consider I spent, between two days, about 8 hours; this is > truly wonderf

SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-10 Thread notoneofmy
On 15-06-09 8:15 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Have you used this printer with lpd before? > > Everything I find on Google says it only speaks a proprietary protocol > called bjnp. > > Which should be covered by the cups-backend-bjnp package. > > http://setdosa.blogspot.se/2009/02/setting-up-canon-pi