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Idea #190: work on printer drivers

bug This idea was marked as implemented the 21 October 08. Available starting Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
Written by grashdur the 28 Feb 08 at 20:15. Category: Hardware support. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Implemented
Rationale
My printer, a Laserjet 1200, is pretty common and is supported by Ubuntu automatically. But I rarely print from it because it stretches my print output, vertically. For example, I have a table in OpenOffice Calc, as a to-do list organized by both importance and urgency, set up to print exactly in a certain way from OpenOffice on Windows XP. But when I open the same document on my Ubuntu computer, it prints stretched out more vertically, so that it doesn't all fit on one sheet. This is printing to the same exact printer. This seems to be the same with other programs.
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Developer comments
I'll take this idea as a general request for better support on printer drivers.
Please look at this upcoming feature:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/printerdriverautodownload
With this system, printer drivers would be downloaded from internet. The big advantage is that we would be able to support printers launched after our release, and provide fixes for current printer drivers.

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Written by grashdur the 28 Feb 08 at 20:15.
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Thelasko wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 20:48
Especially Lexmark drivers which are available for other distributions but not Ubuntu. Even more especially for 64-bit!

gatman3 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:40
Canon printers are a disaster with linux. Someone PLEASE write some Canon drivers.

bdragonmsl wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:37
My HP printer f340 always seems to cut parts of the top and bottom of all the pages I print.

Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 04:47
Go to the printer settings and change the page-size.

This might be a bug, but it sure aint no brainstorm idea.
Voted down.

shadowblade wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 05:47
Dell and Lexmark printers have little to no support. Say what you will about them, but they're fairly common printers.

mephcpp wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:26
On LaserJet 6L there are problems too.

thk wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 17:48
I also miss win xp 's printing dialog where you choose sizes , orientation.

rawsausage wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 22:48
This is a bug report.

mstakwax wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 00:20
I totally agree that without proper support from the printer manufacturers that in order for Linux software to be accepted by the mass more work need to be done on printer driver. I’m still puzzle as to why the manufacturers are not supporting the any Linux operating system. It would be at their advantage, wouldn’t it be? As it is now, after trying several Linux distribution I notice that out of the three printers that I own none of the Linux distribution properly support them. I will not truly start using the Linux operating System until proper printer driver are available. I own a Canon MF 4150 MFP and an HP Photosmart C7200 All-in-One series. Lot more work need to be done here.

casteyde wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 08:25
There is virtually no support for canon printers (at least with photo quality), which is sad because I really like their quality for photo.

Organic wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 17:11
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!!!! This is the main reason I keep windblows on my computers instead of moving 100% to Linux. I can't print anything out without using that driver that leaves a HUGE watermark on every print job.

I'd put this task in my top 5 priority-wise. Please work on Canon drivers.

raoulsana wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 13:08
Yes itoo please make driver for our Printer device ^^ ;)

pauljoseph wrote on the 5 Mar 08 at 07:08
yup, printer driver for Dell 926 AIO :)

scubanator87 wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 03:32
If i remember correctly Apple bough the IP to CUPS. Maybe we should ask them? lol

+1 for more hardware support

eng.essam wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 08:06
Lexmark x1250 (all in one) don't work well, I read about a making another driver make the printer work but how about scanner?

loxx wrote on the 19 Apr 08 at 10:52
Canon drivers - canon is one of the most common printer, but for example there are no Canon Pixma MP520 drivers and many others arent - so please, make some canon drivers.

cornbread wrote on the 26 Apr 08 at 14:56
I have a great idea on how to implement this idea!

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7475/

chrisbrousseau wrote on the 25 Jul 08 at 21:13
Need network printer drivers for Canon - not just USB.

Also - we need Canon MFD printer drivers, not just inkjets.

My linux machines are in the basement, need to print over the network.

justborn wrote on the 26 Jul 08 at 14:47
please do ad tvs printer drivers also

folami wrote on the 29 Jul 08 at 08:06
i am having problems configuring a printer on my ubuntu hardy but what baffles most is the fact that the configure printer terminal does not come up.pls what do i do?

JeffB wrote on the 26 Aug 08 at 00:00
I have an Epson CX6000. It is about 2 years old.
I can't print black text.
Graphics print, but not text, although some black spots are left white.
It doesn't want to use the Black cartridge, even though I have tried the CMYK and the RGB models.
This printer is recognized by Linux.





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