canon pixma ip4200 driver?

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Hello everyone,
I am having problems with my printer canon pixma ip4200 and openSUSE 11.1 on a 32 bits computer.
The printer is recognized and is working, but only on low resolution, 300 and 600 dpi, even with canon drivers.

How can I use 4800 dpi and eventually 9600 dpi? Thank you very much.

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All I’ve been able to find about using Canon’s stuff is to use their proprietary driver. For scanning there sane-backend support. But I haven’t been able to find anything like it for printing. If you can find an opensource driver for it there’s a much better chance you’ll be able to print at higher resolution.

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Here according the the OpenPrint Database the recommended driver is My Personal Debian Packages

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On Tue April 21 2009 09:26 am, trippinnik wrote:

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> Here according the the OpenPrint Database the recommended driver is ‘My
> Personal Debian Packages’ (http://mambo.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~takushi/)
>
>
1vo;

You might want to check this page for more details.
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA-iP4200

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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Canon actually make a very good guide that tells you to install their drivers, to make your printer work;

try this

HCL/Printers - openSUSE

come back to the forum if you need details explained; pleased to try to help;

you can see on the OpenPRinting forum that downloading the canon worked; the debian packages are likely to be just for debian systems, that use .deb packages, and not .rpm

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No mater what I couldn’t make my printer work on higher resolution than 600 dpi with canon drivers. The only solution was Turboprint drivers, everything work OK with them.

I am a little disappointed thou, from canon (small leter) especialy, to use my pixma with Linux I have to pay for what comes free for Windows. >:(

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well done; turboprint is an excellent product; you will find it a very valuable help; enjoy getting your printer running;