How do I get my MX870 Canon Printer to work with ubuntu?

[sdavmor]

On 05/24/2010 09:54 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Monday, May 24, 2010 9:23:05 pm NoOp wrote:
>> On 05/24/2010 07:54 PM, Pastor JW wrote:
>>> On Monday, May 24, 2010 6:22:47 pm Kurtus H wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have an MX870 Canon printer and am trying to get a ubuntu
>>>> driver that will work with it. Can someone help me out with
>>>> this?
>>>
>>> You can get it to work for a short time with TurboPrint but
>>> after I foolishly bought it, it never worked again.  There was
>>> zero support from them, ...I ended up using my Canon mp 560 as
>>> a coping machine as it is worthless with Ubuntu and the only
>>> other OS around here is Palm 5.4.8 on my LifeDrive!  BTW-
>>> Lexmark is declaring Linux compatibility on their box!!  I love
>>> seeing the penguin on the box as hear sales people tell me,
>>> "oh, it ONLY works with windoze"!!
>>
>> Oh nonsense! you were asked time and again regarding this issue
>> with Turboprint&  never responded.
>
> Nonsense indeed, I responded every time.  the response was, 'I
> would click to print and it would be more than 24 hours to print a
> single page.'  Support asked me to remove and reinstall TurboPrint
> which I did taking also 23 hours to remove and 27 hours to
> reinstall.  This was on Hardy.  This would happen each time I
> removed or reinstalled the program.  I got zero for reasons why
> this was happening.  I was using a LTS version.  Nothing else had a
> problem. HP was printing within 30 seconds of pluging the printer
> in.
>
>>
>> I've always had *excellent* support and responses from
>> Turboprint whenever I've asked (including license updates) and
>> highly recommend them.
>
> As far as I know the last message is still sitting there
> unanswered.  After a couple of months I quit checking.  Of course I
> still own TurboPrint although it doesn't work.

That's very surprising to me to hear. I have always found TurboPrint
to be (a) outstanding and (b) well-supported. Admittedly the first
time I installed it I had a few head-scratching moments but once
passed those it's been a no-brainer. Also my non-techie stepdad has
used it on Ubuntu since he dumped Windows (circa Hardy) and did the
install/upgrades himself. Sorry to hear it was a bust for you.
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