One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system.

Linux drivers frequently don&'t make it to the Linux printing database. That happens when a vendor has a driver it's unwilling to publish under the GPL (General Public License--freeware license ...

This is something that I used to have with my Canon BJC 50/70 printers, because I also had the "scanner head" that could be installed instead of the normal print heads.