hi everyone

Like many other users, I'm experiencing problems with my Canon S300
printer.

Today I've found a page at linuxprinting.org that state that Canon has
released GPLed drivers for S300 in Japan (
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-S300 ).
It's actually true: try searching the japanese canon website (
http://cweb.canon.jp/drv-upd/bj/bjlinux210.html )

Since I cannot understand japanese and babelfish isn't helping so much
I tried to install them without much luck.

I downloaded and installed (I'm running Mandrake 10 rc1)
bjfilterbjs300-2.1-0.i386.rpm, bjfiltercups-2.2-0.i386.rpm,
bjfiltercups-ppd-1.0-0.i386.rpm and I also needed to download, compile
and install libpng.so.2 (it isn't included in mandrake 10).

bjfilterbjs300-2.1-0.i386.rpm installs some kind of GUI, similar to
the one working under win98. It's located under /usr/local/bin and I
don't know how to use it.
bjfiltercups-ppd-1.0-0.i386.rpm installs many ppd files under
/usr/share/cups/models, but printerdrake says they aren't valid ppd
files.

I don't know what to do now. Anyone has successfully installed these
drivers? Can anyone please help me?

Since these drivers are GPL, could they be translated / updated /
developed?

thanks
Gabriele