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The Canon i80 printer drivers are bad software. I'm living on a Mac
laptop in Zürich, which is mostly OK. But boy, Canon doesn't make
it easy to use their printers. On a Windows machine I just plug it
into the USB port and it works. On the Mac I have to go to the web
site, manually find the drivers, download the DMG, mount the DMG,
guess which file to open, open it, type my password, wait 2 minutes
for drivers to install, wait 3 more minutes for the Mac to
mysteriously "optimize system performance", then reboot. Only then do
I get to print my photos.
I suspect the fault is more Canon's than the Mac's. Except for the optimize and reboot part; that's the Mac's fault. Isn't this Unix? Doesn't it have loadable device drivers? If I have to be aware of lpd, I'm gonna scream. |
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