Canon XP driver petition - please sign!
Bunch Of Fun
I've just setup a petition to urge Canon to release Windows XP drivers
for the Canon BJC-5000/5100 bubble jet printers (The 5000 model was only
released in summer 1998 and they won't support it anymore!).
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/bjc5000/petition.html
You can stay informed about the XP driver situation at the following
website which explains the whole situation:
http://www.bunchoffun.com/html/canon_bjc-5000_xp_driver.html
Thanks for your support! Please spread the word!
Carleton MacGregor
Black Aliss
You're lucky they've supported it up till now. Time, and hardware, moves on
apace, and I think you're going to find that in the future the support time
is going to be considerably less than that. Epson no longer support the 900
which I bought 3 years ago. It still prints and I'm not going to trash it,
but I don't whine when I can't find a driver. You could get a million
signatures on that petition and it wouldn't persuade Canon to change its
mind. Maybe I should start whining that there's no support in XP for my old
daisywheel.
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Aliss
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Dennis Vernon Airey
17/06/19 - 31/12/01
Grandad, Father, Friend
Deo Veritas
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Mark88
"Black Aliss" <black...@lancrecoven.dw> wrote in message
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> Well tough shit Sherlock. That's life. That printer is now 3½ years old.
> You're lucky they've supported it up till now. Time, and hardware, moves
on
> apace, and I think you're going to find that in the future the support
time
> is going to be considerably less than that. Epson no longer support the
900
> which I bought 3 years ago. It still prints and I'm not going to trash it,
> but I don't whine when I can't find a driver. You could get a million
> signatures on that petition and it wouldn't persuade Canon to change its
> mind. Maybe I should start whining that there's no support in XP for my
old
> daisywheel.
>
> --
> Aliss
Yes, my motherboard is less than two years old and the manufacturer doesn't
support it any more...won't even answer a simple question about it...
Some people just don't understand the concept...
Russ Wright
not work.. The hardware on this printer is quite different then previous and
present Canon printers. The BJC-5xxx driver used is quite dependent on your
computer's hardware primarily the printer port. This driver does not use
"escape codes" like the other Canon drivers , it is basically RAW data. I
think this is where the issue.
Russ
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Bunch Of Fun
years? 5 years? You mention your 3 year old Epson is no longer
supported, well I consider that unreasonable, as well as my 3.5 year old
Canon, I don't program drivers but I can't imagine it taking more than a
couple of days to update the W2K driver to work properly in WinXP.
You probably wouldn't need new drivers for your daisywheel since they
were usually compatible with Epson FX-80 or IBM dot matrix printers
whose drivers are included with Windows XP.
As for the 'whining petition', I set it up to try to change a situation
I deem unfair, if it doesn't work then at least I tried. What have you
done to help the situation?
Thanks to those who signed the petition!
Regards,
Carleton
Peach
> You're lucky they've supported it up till now.
Totally unacceptable.........Canon is usually very good with customer
support...........A small understaffed company it is
not!.................I'm sure if they said they would take away the 2 hour
lunches from some of the upper management......you would have a driver
before sunrise...............I'll sign the petition.
Joe
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Richard West
Wouldn't you be better off petitioning Microsoft to stop updating it's
bloody operating system every twenty minutes?
More specifically to stop deliberately writing in incompatibilities between
the new versions and their predecessors!
What am I taling about? Win XP it based on Win 2K, so why can't you use Win
2K drivers under Win XP? Who's fault is that?
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Model Flyer
updating it's
> bloody operating system every twenty minutes?
I have to agree with you, me was a real con job. What is it, about
a year and it's been superceeded by xp. If I were a peripheral
manufacturer after the debacle of win me I would be reluctant to
create new drivers for yet another possible shortlived operating
system.
Fortunately for some users, the odd win2k device driver works in
XP.
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I wonder do people become as Intelligent as their computers.
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe,
jonath...@bigfoot.com,
printe...@eirom.net
anthony james
>
> I've just setup a petition to urge Canon to release Windows XP drivers
> for the Canon BJC-5000/5100 bubble jet printers (The 5000 model was only
> released in summer 1998 and they won't support it anymore!).
It's not just printers that are going unsupported - i have an 18 month
old scanner fb636u (that was still being sold some time afterwards)
and cant find any XP drivers for it nor any usful information on the
UK canon Website. Nor have they yet replied to emails.
It's a debateable issue. I think products should be supported for a
reasonable working life - 5 years minimum BUT Microsoft dont exactly
make things easy for manufacturers. Stupid, because having to buy new
hardware is a barrier to me upgrading and lining their pockets. The
hardware suppliers dont help either - why does every scanner need it's
own driver? Surely they could build a single driver that was
compatible accross the current range and backwards a few years?
Saintor
experience I never had. Worked fine 9-10 months. After that, complete
nightmare with no Canon support, unless you want to shed some $$$.
Now I'll stick with HP, though I am satisfied with my Lexmark with black
cartridge.
***NEVER EVER CANON I SWEAR*** Boycott them.
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Glenn
think the 630/636 are fairly similar, so the same driver might work. I have
the 630U, but am using Win98FE.
Excerpt from http://www.ihc.com.bn/webpage/subpage/scanp636U.htm
Variety of colors
Choose either the FB636U, in stylish silver, or FB630U*, in classic ivory
white - you'll still get Canon superior scanning technology, housed in a
compact, sleek and elegant scanner body.
* Specifications for FB63OU are as per FB636U's*
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Russ Wright
http://www.canon.com.au/products/scanners/scanners_low_medium_volume/canoSca
nFb630u_drivers.html
russ
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