Tim Anderson's ITWriting » canon http://www.itwriting.com/blog Tech writing blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Canon’s bad dialog, weak Linux support http://www.itwriting.com/blog/700-canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support.html http://www.itwriting.com/blog/700-canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support.html#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:12:49 +0000 tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/700-canons-bad-dialog-weak-linux-support.html While installing Canon’s MX700 all-in-one printer on Windows, I spotted this for my collection of bad dialogs:

Hint: if you ask the user a question, it’s good to allow for more than one answer. Even if you close the dialog by clicking the x at top right, it still reboots the system.

I was also interested

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]]> While installing Canon’s MX700 all-in-one printer on Windows, I spotted this for my collection of bad dialogs:

do you want to restart the system now?

Hint: if you ask the user a question, it’s good to allow for more than one answer. Even if you close the dialog by clicking the x at top right, it still reboots the system.

I was also interested to see whether the printer works with Linux. Canon doesn’t offer Linux drivers. Nor does it seem keen to hear from customers about this:

Linux printing for other printers

The CAPTCHA test always presents 8 zeroes, which it then rejects as invalid.

I haven’t quite given up.  There are Linux drivers for the Pixma MP520 which are rumoured to work somewhat. When I have a moment I’ll give it a try.

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