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A local consultant is selling a 4-month Canon BJ-200 for $150. Does anyone
have an opinion on this printer working with Linux? Is this a good price?

Thanks for any info.

-Dan

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Daniel Wold                               239 City Island Ave,Bronx,NY,10464

"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah

There are bj200 drivers for both ghostscript & TeX which work fine for
my bj-200ex. It's a nice little printer, but first check out how much
the ink cartridges are where you live (where I live they're expensive, &
I have mixed success with refill sets). I Can't really judge about the
price from here.

-svm
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Sander van Malssen                                Cistron Internet Services

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>A local consultant is selling a 4-month Canon BJ-200 for $150. Does anyone
>have an opinion on this printer working with Linux? Is this a good price?

>Thanks for any info.

>-Dan

I _think_ it'll work ok. We've got one here on our Pentium, and
to be honest, we're having problems using it as a network printer.
Having said that, I'm almost positive the problem stems from
the samba and windows boxes attempting to access it, and not
the printer itself.

I can print fine in regular text mode when I send the job from the
box the printer is* off of. Haven't yet gotten to the point
to send formatted files.

My guess is you'll need an input filter for it. If I find one I'll
send it if you'd like. If you find one first (assuming you actually
buy the thing) would you mind firing a copy over this way?

regards, markjr

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I bought a new BJ-200ex last September for $169 (+tax) at Circuit City.
Prints Postscript using the ghostscript driver, and standard text. Read
the printing HOWTO.

Uwe F. Mayer
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