05-05-2016, 11:27 PM
Things are looking good now in the XP box - I think a combination of the advice solved the problem, and when the printer finally did show up in the VB menu, it was installable. It has not passed all the print tests yet though, but thanks all round are in order, I just need to test it on photos.
Re the Pixma in LL - I got it to work most of the time on an LL laptop after much tweaking, but have not had any luck with it on the desktop. Someone with a Pixma mentioned having had better luck with earlier LL versions as well, and also said full success had eluded them. Not all of the Pixmas have equally good driver support in Linux, and the ip5000 is one of the unlucky ones if I remember correctly.
On the new setup running LL 2.8 everything _seems_ to be fine, but the printer doesn't respond. Print tests come out in one color. Print jobs remain queued. But if the XP box works even all the printer software and utilities will work as well, so that will keep me happy.
Re the Pixma in LL - I got it to work most of the time on an LL laptop after much tweaking, but have not had any luck with it on the desktop. Someone with a Pixma mentioned having had better luck with earlier LL versions as well, and also said full success had eluded them. Not all of the Pixmas have equally good driver support in Linux, and the ip5000 is one of the unlucky ones if I remember correctly.
On the new setup running LL 2.8 everything _seems_ to be fine, but the printer doesn't respond. Print tests come out in one color. Print jobs remain queued. But if the XP box works even all the printer software and utilities will work as well, so that will keep me happy.