One word (or is it two?) TurboPrint
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| fordboy0 Aug 21, 2007 3:20 PM EDT |
Honestly, printing has always been a pain in the you-know-what, even on Windows systems. It's only been in the last couple of years that improvement has been made on that front. For printing on Linux, for printers such as the Pixma series (I have an ip3000), I use TurboPrint (http://www.turboprint.info -- or for you Sprechen Sie Deutsch folk, http://www.turboprint.de). It's reasonable in price (~$40.00) and has wonderful out-of-the-box printing. You can set up multiple profiles for print quality / paper types / color control. It has darn-near professional level printing ink controls. When using the profiles, you will now have multiple pre-configured printer types that can be used even with the most arcane Linux applications. It is a GTK application, so it's not all that pretty, but once you have your most used profiles set up, you don't have to look at it much :) Just my $0.02 -Jeff |
| tuxchick Aug 21, 2007 3:38 PM EDT |
I use TurboPrint for my Pixma IP4200, and yes it's great. But I can't get it to make borderless prints at any size. Have you been able to do this? |
| fordboy0 Aug 23, 2007 5:53 PM EDT |
Well, well... Now I have a task to complete. I like tasks :) Honestly, I can't recall if I've used the borderless paper size with this particular printer and TurboPrint. I have used it in the past with an Epson printer... I have US-Letter-Borderless, A4-Borderless, 4"x6"-Borderless and 5"x"7-Borderless sizes from which to choose in the xtpconfig app. I'll have to test when I get back from Bristol. (Yes, I'm a NASCAR fan, so sue me) I'll let you know what I find out. -Jeff |
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