BG> Another dissatisfied Canon customer, I see...

The reason is in fact that Canon's APM support is in real-mode BIOS code
run by the main processor. More advanced systems such as Toshiba and IBM's
recent machines use actual hardware to save and restore machine state, so
their suspend and resume features still work when the BIOS is overmapped
and swapped out (and therefore unable to service interrupts) by OS/2 or
Linux or other advanced operating systems.

PM>> And then ask them where are the high res OS/2 drivers for their printers
BG> I gave up asking Canon for drivers over 3 years ago, and nothing has 

There are some drivers for OS/2 1.3 for some printers. However since 2.1
and Warp support most Canon printers via OMNI.DRV, Canon just can't be
bothered.

Anyway, there are NO OS/2 drivers which kludgily exceed the physical
capabilities of the hardware they drive. The "720dpi" resolutions
are physically impossible for the print heads in those inkjets. The print
heads support 360dpi. OS/2 gives you 360dpi. It doesn't try to simulate
something which isn't really there.

PM>> HP and Lexmark make much better printers anyway :-)
BG> Pity that many of them are simply rerbadged Canons then, isn't it?  :)
The hardware is OK, it's just the support which is bad. I bought a Canon
color inkjet a few weeks ago, mainly because it was cheap. I didn't expect
any support out of them  (I'm using it in Linux and OS/2) so I wasn't
disappointed. 

I do note however that the Windows 3 and Windows 4 drivers they shipped
were based on alpha code, with a FileVersion of "1.10alpha1 - Internal
use only. Do not distribute".

-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards [Team OS/2]  Tel 0419320415 * 0412809805 * 0414927056
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