Canon i560 driver issue

Having just installed x64....Which driver will work the best for the i560?
Have tried several. The BCJ 2000 driver works but the I need a magnifiying
glass to read the print.

Donald
Sun Jul 24 17:01:32 CDT 2005

Sorry, nothing does!

I tried every driver that comes with Win64. One, it forget which one,does
print but the images are pretty muddy.

Canon doesn't seem very interested in providing updated drivers. They are
much more interested in you buying a 9900 which has 64 bit drivers and an
additional ink cartridge.

Canon really stinks in customer support and I'll use another vender when I
finally replace my i560


DonW


"Mayman" <Mayman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Having just installed x64....Which driver will work the best for the i560?
> Have tried several. The BCJ 2000 driver works but the I need a
> magnifiying
> glass to read the print.

David
Sun Jul 24 18:16:40 CDT 2005

"Donald Wilkinson" <donw@fyi.net> wrote in:

> Sorry, nothing does!
>
> I tried every driver that comes with Win64. One, it forget which one,does
> print but the images are pretty muddy.
>
> Canon doesn't seem very interested in providing updated drivers. They are
> much more interested in you buying a 9900 which has 64 bit drivers and an
> additional ink cartridge.
>
> Canon really stinks in customer support and I'll use another vender when I
> finally replace my i560

I have to agree, Canon is behaving just like Epson did with their products
when Windows 2000 came out and they refused to provide drivers for my $1,200
scanner! I've never bought another Epson product and probably won't buy
anything from Canon again, either.

BTW, I can't recall whatever made me chose a Microtek scanner but it works in
X64 by decorating the driver and I understand that Microtek has now done it
for us? Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Microtek.

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John
Sun Jul 24 19:18:33 CDT 2005

Try the BJC-8000. It has worked with that printer before.


"David R. Norton MVP" <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns969DA59616E62drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
> "Donald Wilkinson" <donw@fyi.net> wrote in:
>
>> Sorry, nothing does!
>>
>> I tried every driver that comes with Win64. One, it forget which
>> one,does
>> print but the images are pretty muddy.
>>
>> Canon doesn't seem very interested in providing updated drivers. They are
>> much more interested in you buying a 9900 which has 64 bit drivers and an
>> additional ink cartridge.
>>
>> Canon really stinks in customer support and I'll use another vender when
>> I
>> finally replace my i560
>
> I have to agree, Canon is behaving just like Epson did with their products
> when Windows 2000 came out and they refused to provide drivers for my
> $1,200
> scanner! I've never bought another Epson product and probably won't buy
> anything from Canon again, either.
>
> BTW, I can't recall whatever made me chose a Microtek scanner but it works
> in
> X64 by decorating the driver and I understand that Microtek has now done
> it
> for us? Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Microtek.
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_norton@yahoo.com>

John
Mon Jul 25 12:13:50 CDT 2005

From Planet64 forum

Thanx for the Tip with the BJC8000, my I560 works also with this one. don't
know if every funktion (sic) ist (sic) ok, but for normal working its best!
madface


"David R. Norton MVP" <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Donald Wilkinson" <donw@fyi.net> wrote in:
>
>> Sorry, nothing does!
>>
>> I tried every driver that comes with Win64. One, it forget which
>> one,does
>> print but the images are pretty muddy.
>>
>> Canon doesn't seem very interested in providing updated drivers. They are
>> much more interested in you buying a 9900 which has 64 bit drivers and an
>> additional ink cartridge.
>>
>> Canon really stinks in customer support and I'll use another vender when
>> I
>> finally replace my i560
>
> I have to agree, Canon is behaving just like Epson did with their products
> when Windows 2000 came out and they refused to provide drivers for my
> $1,200
> scanner! I've never bought another Epson product and probably won't buy
> anything from Canon again, either.
>
> BTW, I can't recall whatever made me chose a Microtek scanner but it works
> in
> X64 by decorating the driver and I understand that Microtek has now done
> it
> for us? Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Microtek.
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_norton@yahoo.com>

John
Mon Jul 25 13:30:04 CDT 2005

One point I hadn't considered before. Since the driver is working for some,
including me, and not for others, like you, I am using a USB connection to
my printer. Maybe you are using a Parallel IEEE1284 and the driver doesn't
work for that connection. They do have different drivers on the install
disk. Just a perhaps which could resolve the issue.



"David R. Norton MVP" <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns969DA59616E62drnortonyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
> "Donald Wilkinson" <donw@fyi.net> wrote in:
>
>> Sorry, nothing does!
>>
>> I tried every driver that comes with Win64. One, it forget which
>> one,does
>> print but the images are pretty muddy.
>>
>> Canon doesn't seem very interested in providing updated drivers. They are
>> much more interested in you buying a 9900 which has 64 bit drivers and an
>> additional ink cartridge.
>>
>> Canon really stinks in customer support and I'll use another vender when
>> I
>> finally replace my i560
>
> I have to agree, Canon is behaving just like Epson did with their products
> when Windows 2000 came out and they refused to provide drivers for my
> $1,200
> scanner! I've never bought another Epson product and probably won't buy
> anything from Canon again, either.
>
> BTW, I can't recall whatever made me chose a Microtek scanner but it works
> in
> X64 by decorating the driver and I understand that Microtek has now done
> it
> for us? Anyway, I'm pretty happy with Microtek.
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_norton@yahoo.com>

David
Mon Jul 25 15:23:06 CDT 2005

"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in:

> One point I hadn't considered before. Since the driver is working for
> some, including me, and not for others, like you, I am using a USB
> connection to my printer. Maybe you are using a Parallel IEEE1284 and
> the driver doesn't work for that connection. They do have different
> drivers on the install disk. Just a perhaps which could resolve the
> issue.

I'll bet the driver isn't "working" for you. Can you align the printheads?
Does it let you know the level of the ink in the ink tanks? Being able to
print low quality color isn't "working" in my opinion, the proper driver does
MUCH more. "Working" means (to me anyway) being able to do everything that I
could do with the printer in Windows XP and it can't do that using the
substitute driver in X64.

FWIW, the Canon S900 has no parallel interface, it's USB or nothing.

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John
Mon Jul 25 15:58:40 CDT 2005

Perfect, no. No one said it was. Good to very good, yes. I get as good a
quality of print as in x86 for draft, normal and best. Highest quality,
which I never use, is not available in the BJC-8000.


"David R. Norton MVP" <d_r_nortonNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in:
>
>> One point I hadn't considered before. Since the driver is working for
>> some, including me, and not for others, like you, I am using a USB
>> connection to my printer. Maybe you are using a Parallel IEEE1284 and
>> the driver doesn't work for that connection. They do have different
>> drivers on the install disk. Just a perhaps which could resolve the
>> issue.
>
> I'll bet the driver isn't "working" for you. Can you align the
> printheads?
> Does it let you know the level of the ink in the ink tanks? Being able to
> print low quality color isn't "working" in my opinion, the proper driver
> does
> MUCH more. "Working" means (to me anyway) being able to do everything
> that I
> could do with the printer in Windows XP and it can't do that using the
> substitute driver in X64.
>
> FWIW, the Canon S900 has no parallel interface, it's USB or nothing.
>
> --
> David R. Norton MVP
> <d_r_norton@yahoo.com>

David
Mon Jul 25 18:43:18 CDT 2005

"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in:

> Perfect, no. No one said it was. Good to very good, yes. I get as good a
> quality of print as in x86 for draft, normal and best. Highest quality,
> which I never use, is not available in the BJC-8000.

Exactly, which for me defeats the purpose of a photo printer. ;-)


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