Re: [SLUG] printing to canon printer

[davidf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Fitch)]

"Aussie" <aussie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> If you purchased the printer after Jan 1 2000, you are out of luck. Canon 
> removed ALL inbuilt fonts for their printer range on 1/1/00 and, as a result, 
> no Canon printer (with the exception of the A3 BJC-4650) will accept plain text 
> input. Additionally, Canon does not support and drivers except Winblows 
> drivers, so you use Linux at your own risk. I spoke to a tech there only last 
> week, so the info is very recent. Plain text support will be removed from the 
> BJC-4650 in the next 3 months, leaving Canon as an anti-Linux supplier.

I'm coming to the conclusion Canon are pretty useless in other
areas as well.  My chick bought a scanner (the 630P - parallel
port one).  It doesn't seem to be listed on the SANE list of
supported scanners, so I emailed "driversupport@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
which I got off their web site (as there's no mention of linux
anywhere on it) asking for info on using it under linux.
I've sent the email twice now over about 3 weeks with no response
at all.  Next I'm printing out the email and starting to fax it
to various numbers at Canon.  I don't take poor customer service
very well I'm afraid.

Dave.