[Leaplist] Driver for a Printer

[Bryan J. Smith]

Ram K. Singh <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have purchased a new Multi Function Canon MF3200.

It is a discontinued MF3200?  Or a newer model in the series
(e.g., the MF3240)?

> I am having plenty of hard time finding a driver for it.
> Any help will be appreciated.

I cannot find the MF3200 even on Canon's site.  It seems to
have been discontinued awhile back.

Further reading results in people having issues finding Vista
compatible drivers.  If you are running 64-bit Vista, you're
screwed in the whole series it seems, as Canon has not licensed
some subsystems (and/or Microsoft does not provide the support.

I.e., even if you "steal" the newer driver disc set for the
newer MF3240 product, it won't work with 64-bit Vista.

And why is that?  Here's the kicker ...

It's a GDI solution.  I.e., there are *0* brains in the unit.
It relies on the "host" system to drive it.  Good luck getting
the rated 21 pages-per-minute (PPM) out of it.  That's probably
only the case for small detail page, enough to fit in its
buffer, and duplicate it 21 times, so it doesn't have to make
your Windows system it's you-know-what.

All for $200 MSRP (I sincerely hope you paid much less than that).

Back in 2001, for $280, I bought a HP LaserJet 1220se that has
Postscript, and the scanning and other functionality is supported
in Linux, but not in newer versions of Windows XP.  Even for
Windows, we are regressing, and consumers are caught in the
cross-fire.


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