Anyone used the Canon iP3300 or the Canon iP1800 printers?

[Kevin Cozens]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> What kind of budget is available for it?  Obviously the simplest
> solution is to get an actual postscript printer instead (will also be
> way faster that way).  You can get nice colour laser printers from

Postscript printers would work but are way more costly than other laser 
printers that could be used. Not to mention they would be complete overkill 
for the few pages that need to be printed each day. The pages being printed 
are in black and white only at the moment.

> Anything that should be reliable with little maintenance has to
> avoid inkjets.

If they print a few pages each day there shouldn't be too much in terms of 
maintenance to worry about.

> As for drivers for inkjets, some unfortunately use binary blobs

Yes, I've seen that situation with a few of the Canon inkjet printers.

> Oh and ghostscript and buddies take a LOT of ram to render a single
> page.  I would actually be surprised if most arm based systems have
> enough ram and tmp space to run a postscript renderer.

The CPU board has 32Meg of SRAM with a bit more than half free with the 
application and Ghostscsript running. Initial tests show it is only taking 
about 10Meg of memory to print a page at 300 dpi which still leaves a few Meg 
of RAM to spare.

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