Anyone used the Canon iP3300 or the Canon iP1800 printers?

[Kevin Cozens]

Greetings, all.

I'm currently looking at which printers I can use as part of a project for a 
client. I'm looking mainly at ink jet printers. The catch is that I'm using an 
ARM based board running Linux and have very little free flash memory (< 12M) 
after installing the application, the Ghostscript 8.60 executable, and one 
font file.

Based on information from the Linux Printing Database the Canon PIXMA iP3300 
should work using the bjc800 driver. The Canon PIXMA iP1800 should also work 
under Linux but the Linux drivers from Canon are mainly for use with a CUPS 
based printing system.

The application generates a Postscript file which is fed to Ghostscript which 
then talks to the printer over a USB port. Has anyone used either of these two 
printers? Is the iP1800 another printer that can be made to (partially?) work 
with the bjc800 driver?

Only a single page will be output in black and white three to four times a 
day. It won't matter if the full features of the printer are not supported by 
an older, but compatible, driver.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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