log4p

Last week our HP PSC2110 printer/scanner broke down. Danielle did a bit of research and decided we should buy a Canon PIXMA 4300, best bang for buck if she wants to print high resolution design and pictures.

Installation on the windows box we use as a printer/fileserver went smooth, and even the pictbridge is working fine when we connect the EOS. Quality of the prints is superb!

I should have known that getting it to work on linux would be a pain…

I’ve tried:

• the ip4000 driver which is included in ubuntu, does print but colors are misplaced
• generic pcl drivers, doesn’t work
• various other canon drivers, some work but on wrong resolutions (like 360 dpi, where the printer needs at least 600)
• compiling the gutenprint cvs version (found a thread where someone suggested this), didn’t seem to work
• downloaded the pixma 4200 drivers from the canon website (yes, they actually distribute drivers). Converted the RPMS to debs using alien. Show up in cups, but doesn’t work, the cups log shows the following error:
  E [30/Sep/2006:22:03:01 +0200] [Job 38] No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!