Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Canon BJ 10sx

[Gernot H. <aik...@gm...>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Gernot Hassenpflug
<aik...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Gary & Louise Carlson
> <lan...@co...> wrote:
>> Have use your downloads for various old printers like Laser-jet 4, 4M etc.
>> They work great = thanks for all the great help.
>>
>> I am trying to find a print driver for a Canon BJ-10sx portable very old
>> printer that we can use on a old Windows 7 computer at a car show to support
>> the PTA.
>
> Hi Gaery,
> I'd not heard of the BJ-10 before, seems to have been supported until
> Win98. I'll look into it, but in the meantime, I would suggest you try
> the BJ drivers for early models: -30, -50, -80.
> Also, since these printers have various emulation modes (Epson LQ and
> others maybe) it might be possible to use drivers that support those
> emulations if the BJ drivers we have do not work.

Hello,
Follow-up to my own post, with more information.

1. Specifications

I don't know the difference between the various BL-10 models.
So far I am aware of: BJ-10ex, BJ-10sx, BJ-10v (Japan), there may be
others (see below).

The BJ-10sx appears to be Monochrome (Black ink) only, and prints with
a 360dpi standard rather than 300 or 600 dpi.

It appears that there are plenty of older BJ-* series models which do
not appear on the driver lists of the Canon sites.

2. Emulation capability

I found the user and service manuals online, only managed to look at
the user manual so far.
Here from the user manual:

Two resident printer control modes
allow the printer to emulate other
printers: BJ-10e mode provides
emulation of the Canon Bubble Jet
printers as well as the IBM proprinter
X24E, an Epson LQ mode provides
emulation of the Epson LQ-510
printer. This means your printer is
compatible with a wide variety of
software applications including those
that support the Proprinter X24E and
LQ-510, as well as any of the other
Canon Bubble Jet printers (BJ-10e, BJ-
10ex, BJ-20, and BJ-130e).

3. Drivers

I could not find any drivers on the Canon sites in Japan, the US or Europe.
However, it seems the Windows driver from Microsoft bundled with
Windows can print on this device, although some of the options the
Canon driver would offer will not be available.
There are some Win95 and win98 drivers downloadable online from
non-Canon sites. I am wary of such, but will try to find time to test
them in a clean Windows XP virtual machine unconnected to any external
network, where malware will do little harm (I hope).

4. Printjobs

These are needed to reverse engineer the correct commands for the
gutenprint driver, and usually I obtain these by printing to a file
under Windows.
Since currently I do not have any working drivers at hand, I cannot
say what the chances are of getting this device supported.
However, my advice for now is to try various gutenprint drivers where
the resolutions offered are in the 360dpi ballpark (90, 80, 360, 720
dpi modes).
I can't give you specific models right now but should be able to find
time tonight.

May I ask how you are still managing to access supplies (ink carts)
for this printer?

Regards,
Gernot Hassenpflug