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Last week our HP PSC2110 printer/scanner broke down. Danielle did a bit of research and decided we should buy a Canon PIXMA 4300, best bang for buck if she wants to print high resolution design and pictures.

Installation on the windows box we use as a printer/fileserver went smooth, and even the pictbridge is working fine when we connect the EOS. Quality of the prints is superb!

I should have known that getting it to work on linux would be a pain…

I’ve tried:

• the ip4000 driver which is included in ubuntu, does print but colors are misplaced
• generic pcl drivers, doesn’t work
• various other canon drivers, some work but on wrong resolutions (like 360 dpi, where the printer needs at least 600)
• compiling the gutenprint cvs version (found a thread where someone suggested this), didn’t seem to work
• downloaded the pixma 4200 drivers from the canon website (yes, they actually distribute drivers). Converted the RPMS to debs using alien. Show up in cups, but doesn’t work, the cups log shows the following error:
  E [30/Sep/2006:22:03:01 +0200] [Job 38] No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!

Last weekend we finished rebuilding our bathroom, and we are very pleased with the result! We had a lot of people coming over to help us on stuff like plumbing, putting in the concrete floor, tiling the floor and walls, assembling the units… and taking care of Sjoerd when needed. Pictures will follow!

The planning was far to tight to allow me to check out the various frameworks, servers, distributions on my list (well I tried to install OSX on my laptop, which sort of worked… but crashed far to much).

But since a new project is coming (rebuilding cinema.nl) I’ll probably have a bit of time to acquire some fresh insights in recent evolvements of the framework landscape. Next to this I’ll be at Javapolis at the beginning of December, can’t wait!

For now I’m focussed on fixing bugs, and enhancing the performance of the recently released beta of 3voor12.nl.

Today I finished 33% of my holiday. 66% more to go!

I’m rebuilding my bathroom. I managed to hide the plumbing, central heating and electricity neatly under a solid slab of reinforced concrete. Coming week: create a small wall for the build-in toilet, and start putting in the tiles…!

Working with a certain material makes me more focussed for the material in other locations, which is probably why I noticed this monster:

The fullsize (3456×2304) image (could be nice for a wallpaper) can be downloaded here:
Concrete and the Spider