Problem with Canon MP510

[NoOp]

On 03/26/2008 02:51 PM, Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> thanos papaioanou wrote:
>> I have recently bought a Canon MP510 printer (with a built-in
>> scanner and copy features) and Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) doesn't seem
>> to work at all with the machine. It works only at the black color
>> printings. Every time I try to print a multy color page, every
>> color is printed at a wrong position, so that the final result is
>> strange images. I have tested the printer at Windows OS and it
>> works fine. I tried to install some drivers from canon officcial
>> web site. After the instalation Ubuntu recognizes only the scanner
>> machine. I would like to inform you about this bug. Also I would be
>> grateful to have some information and help about this problem from
>> you. thank you in advance thanospap97 at hotmail.com thanos (from
>> Greece)
> According to the site below, that printer isn't very well supported 
> under Linux: 
> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP510 
> -Corey
> 

Spend about $40 USD and install Turboprint:

http://www.turboprint.de/english.html
 http://www.turboprint.info/printers.html

Does and excellent job of supporting Canon printers.