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Printer problem on FC 16 [solved] (8 replies)

raghy.rao — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:40:29 -0400

Hello,

Here the Message I am getting after running system-config-printer

Thanks
Raghu

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(system-config-printer.py:9486): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(system-config-printer.py:9486): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(system-config-printer.py:9486): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py:1977: GtkWarning: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.GH5REW': No such file or directory
gtk.main()
/usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py:1977: GtkWarning: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory
gtk.main()

hotplug doesn't work in Fedora-17 (Beefy Miracle) [solved] (4 replies)

twohot — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:52:22 -0400

I decided to migrate from Fedora 15 to 17. Foo2zjs worked pretty well on F15 but it will no longer be supported soon. I installed Foo2zjs for my HP1020 today hoping to get the same smooth performance. Everything seems to work except when I switch the printer off and on ... firmware is not uploaded to the device

manually uploading it works well.
(cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1020.dl > /dev/usb/lp0) ... worked

What now? This machine is more or less a remote machine ... walking through the corridors of the office to run the above command doesn't make sense. (Unless, of course, I have to use ssh ... but I'd prefer a normal 'on and off' workability)

Your advice?

Poor print quality with Well Tempered Screens or ICM (1 reply)

jacobmj — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:25:54 -0400

Hi.

I'm using a Magicolor 2200DL. I happen to be on Ubuntu 11.04,
and have installed per the instructions given on the foo2zjs
site. Additionally, I have installed ghostscript 8.71 as
/usr/bin/gs.foo. Without this, using gs 9.01, the printer
produces only gibberish, or never outputs a page.

I use an ICM file I created for my printer, and this is installed
as user1.icm. I should note that the provided Magicolor 2200 ICM
color profile is vastly incorrect for my printer. Mine works
well for me.

My issue now is with regards to Color Modes and Halftone
algorithms. I have been set to "Color - use ICM profile",
and "Well Tempered Screens (best)". My understanding of the
foo2zjs website and documentation suggests that this would be the
best setting. I find that the print quality is terrible. The
background of colored lineart is scattered with colored dots, and
the line edges are very fuzzy. To me, it's like I applied very
low-rate JPEG compression to all images. Even solid-black images
demonstrate a moire pattern.

I've had better luck with "Accurate Screens (better)". This reduces
the amount of "background" printed behind lineart images--but does not
entirely eliminate it.

A larger improvement, particularly on being able to produce solid
black images, results from using the color mode "Color - Graphics and
Text". This results in a smooth, black image.

Before I begin attaching photographs of the printout, can anyone shed
light on this behavior? Are these known bugs?

What are the "right" print settings?

Thanks.
~Jacob

HP 1020 and Kubuntu 12.04 (8 replies)

Bigal-sa — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:44:22 -0400

I've been using the foo2zjs drivers successfully with the HP 1020 since roundabout Kubuntu 7.04, now I've hit a snag with 12.04.

Kubuntu 12.04 downloads *something* to the printer quite early in the device driver chain, which stops the printer driver (or anything else) from communicating with it. As a result, the foo2zjs firmware can't be downloaded (I assume). I first found this with a brand new install, then with an upgrade install from 11.10 (64-bit in both cases). From the 11.10 install, the printer worked fine, but as soon as 12.04 was active (and the printer reset) no comms.

On the same machine I have an 11.10 (32-bit) partition. If I first boot into that, reset the printer, the correct firmware is downloaded. If I then reboot into 12.04, without switching the printer off, 12.04's broken firmware is not downloaded and I can use the printer.

I've tried uninstalling the hplip software/drivers, but that doesn't seem to help.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, and a suggestion (no replies)

monoped — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:43:39 -0400

Thanks for this software! Printing with foo2zjs on my HP 1102w under Linux works like a charm. I had been using hplip, which after a couple of library updates stopped working and instead produced permanent backend crashes. After removing it and installing foo2zjs I could immediately print again. This made my day!

Just one suggestion: It would be convenient if the tarball name was decorated with some kind of version number. This would make it easier to keep track of the different versions.

KM-1635 doesn't print [solved] (no replies)

lego_12239 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:12:07 -0400

Hello, all.

In my case, KM-1635 has two sheets trays: one is configured as a3 and another as a4. By default, lp, which i used to output test page, use PageSize Letter. KM-1635 doesn't find a tray with such sheets and hangs up. If i set PageSize to A4 or A3 explicitly, all pages are printed well.

May be, this will help anybody.

KM-1635 doesn't print [third party install] (8 replies)

lego_12239 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:08:11 -0400

Hello.

I'm using Debian 6 with cups 1.4.4 (debian version is 1.4.4-7+squeeze1) and latest foo2oak drivers from this site.

when i send any data to the printer, cups said that a page was printed and everything is ok, but the printer doesn't print anything.

I tried save a .jpg file as .ps and did:

foo2oak-wrapper img.ps > out.oak
cp out.oak /dev/usb/lp0

but this also did nothing.

oakdecode < out.oak show me that this file contain a data.

How can i debug this situation?

virtualbox + driver foo2xqx + HP LaserJet P1006 (1 reply)

gti9001splus — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:01:09 -0400

I have problem.
Lubuntu 12.04 in virtualbox 4.1.10 r76836, host is windows xp sp3. Printer HP LaserJet P1006, with driver foo2xqx.

Sometimes the printer doesn't print. tasks go to queue and appear there with the status - is executed.
Here the log of the press of test page through debugging http://pastebin.com/xEpxy9XM.
Noticed if to disconnect the printer from virtualbox, to print in windows, it starts to print in linux.

help for installing m1213ns mfp on openbsd (3 replies)

cameraace2006 — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:40:33 -0400

i don't know if any of your drivers can help me install my hp m1213ns mfp on my openbsd through router networking.

I will be really happy if any one can help me on this with the required informations.

I am ready to pay him for his fruitful services.

new installation Minolta/QMS magicolor 2200 DL [ubuntu 10.04] (3 replies)

Wolfgang Wussow — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:35:55 -0400

I wanted to install the 2200 DL with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
If I try the installation:
The green lamp gos on for a short time, but printer does not work.
Mistake:

client-error-document-format-not-supported

What can I do??

best regards
Wolfgang Wussow

CUPS problem with Samsung CLP-310 on Lubuntu [solved] (1 reply)

MarkusG — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:15:21 -0500

I've got a Samsung CLP-310 printer that used to work just fine on my last system (Kubuntu 9). Recently, I've purchased a new computer with a pre-installed Lubuntu 11.10. There was no standard driver for this printer available anymore, so I downloaded foo2qpdl and followed the instructions on the website.

After that, I started the system's printer configuration tool. For the driver, I selected the file "Samsung-CLP-310.ppd.gz". When now I try to apply the driver, CUPS aborts with a "server-error-internal-error" (no more information given).

Can anyone tell me how to solve this resp. how to diagnose the problem further?

Thanks in advance,
Markus

hp1020 plus do not work [fedora 14] (1 reply)

xdroid — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:16:55 -0500

hp1020 plus do not work, what is the diff between hp 1020 and 1020 plus? [fedora 14]

HP1020 FC16 Landscape printing [not my problem] (2 replies)

janklaver — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:51:52 -0500

Hi,

I am running Fedora Core 16 (3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64) on an HP ProBook 4530s. The system is completely up to date. This problem led me to doing a complete update.

We have an HP Laserjet 1020 shared on a Windows XP machine in our office.

I followed the instructions for installing foo2zjs and the printer is working fine when printing documents in portrait, but when trying to print landscape it seems that the document is not "rotated" on the paper. I.E. It prints the document as if the paper feed is landscape even though it is fed portrait. (I hope this makes sense)

I have also tried to connect the printer via USB to my PC and it has the same effect.

Anny assistance will be appreciated.

Adjustment of saturation with DL2300 driver [solved; using 9.* gs] (3 replies)

bssmusic — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:20:49 -0500

Hello, i have just installed the foo2zjs on my Suse 12.1 and made the usual adjustments (color, icm...).
In former versions tis worked fine with my DL5430 printer.
In this case however, the saturation values are much to highso the color whell in the testprint is nearly black in the middle, and the gray ramp is almost brown at the "white" end.
I have tried all available color profiles.
Any ideas how to configure this?

Peter

Build (make install) fails on Linux Mint 12 (2 replies)

TheOldFellow — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:08:33 -0500

make runs to completion OK.

sudo make install fails with the following ending in Linux Mint 12

install -glp -d /var/lp/ppd/user/$manuf; \
modify-ppd <$ppd | gzip > /var/lp/ppd/user/$manuf/$ppd.gz; \
chmod 664 /var/lp/ppd/user/$manuf/$ppd.gz; \
done; \
ppdmgr -u; \
elif [ -d /usr/share/ppd ]; then \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2zjs*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2hp*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2xqx*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2lava*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2qpdl*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2slx*' | xargs rm -rf; \
find /usr/share/ppd -name '*foo2hiperc*' | xargs rm -rf; \
[ -d /usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs ] || mkdir /usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs; \
cd PPD; \
for ppd in *.ppd; do \
modify-ppd <$ppd | gzip > /usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs/$ppd.gz; \
chmod 664 /usr/share/ppd/foo2zjs/$ppd.gz; \
done; \
fi
export: 26: Printer/foo2zjs:: bad variable name
make: *** [install-ppd] Error 2

Thanks.

Lexmark x215 driver [solved; does not use JBIG comp] (1 reply)

Peter — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:52:50 -0500

I have a Lekmark x215 and would like to be able to print to it from something other than Windows. Unfortunately, the printer chokes from the output of foo2qpdl.

I generated some simple bitmaps and converted them on a Windows box and used qpdldecode to examine them. One immediate discrepancy this showed was that the type 0x0c record is 10, rather than 11, bytes long, with the record length only being 3 bytes. After adapting qpdldecode, a solid black A4 page decode begins:

\033%-12345X@PJL SET PAPERTYPE = OFF
@PJL SET DENSITY = 3
@PJL SET POWERSAVE = ON
@PJL SET POWERSAVETIME = 5
@PJL SET JAMRECOVERY = OFF
@PJL SET REPRINT = ON
@PJL SET ALTITUDE = LOW
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = QPDL
RECTYPE 0x0     len=17  pageNum=1
                yres=600, copies=1, papersize=a4(2), w=0, h=0
                papersource=auto, unk=0, duplex=1:0, unk=0,0,  unk=0(0x0)
                xres=0
RECTYPE 0xc     len=784(0x310)
                stripe=0, WB=4960(0x1360), H=128(0x80), plane=13, comp=0x0,
                len=772(0x304)
                magic=0xc0000006, len=-762003456(0xd294c000), unk=1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,
                end=18, ver=-4, checksum WANT=0x14c13 GOT=0x0
RECTYPE 0xc     len=784(0x310)
                stripe=1, WB=4960(0x1360), H=128(0x80), plane=13, comp=0x0,
                len=772(0x304)
                magic=0xc0000006, len=-762003456(0xd294c000), unk=1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,
                end=18, ver=-4, checksum WANT=0x14c13 GOT=0x0
RECTYPE 0xc     len=784(0x310)
                stripe=2, WB=4960(0x1360), H=128(0x80), plane=13, comp=0x0,
                len=772(0x304)
                magic=0xc0000006, len=-762003456(0xd294c000), unk=1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,1360d294,c0001360,d294c000,
                end=18, ver=-4, checksum WANT=0x14c13 GOT=0x0

]
A hexdump of the start of the first 0x0c record begins at 000000e7:

000000e0  00 01 00 00 00 00 00 0c  00 13 60 00 80 0d 00 00  |..........`.....|
000000f0  03 04 c0 00 00 06 d2 94  c0 00 13 60 d2 94 c0 00  |...........`....|
00000100  13 60 d2 94 c0 00 13 60  d2 94 c0 00 13 60 d2 94  |.`.....`.....`..|
00000110  c0 00 13 60 d2 94 c0 00  13 60 d2 94 c0 00 13 60  |...`.....`.....`|
00000120  d2 94 c0 00 13 60 d2 94  c0 00 13 60 d2 94 c0 00  |.....`.....`....|
00000130  13 60 d2 94 c0 00 13 60  d2 94 c0 00 13 60 d2 94  |.`.....`.....`..|
00000140  c0 00 13 60 d2 94 c0 00  13 60 d2 94 c0 00 13 60  |...`.....`.....`|
00000150  d2 94 c0 00 13 60 d2 94  c0 00 13 60 d2 94 c0 00  |.....`.....`....|
00000160  13 60 d2 94 c0 00 13 60  d2 94 c0 00 13 60 d2 94  |.`.....`.....`..|

Does anyone have any ideas?

magicolor 1600w prints too dark (no replies)

lewyssmith — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:25:55 -0500

I have succeeded in installing f002lava under Mandriva Linux - as per the site instructions. It prints OK, but the result is dark, and I wonder whether there is any way to lighten it - fiddling a configuration file etc.

TIA Lewis Smith

Corrupted print result with n-up printing [solved; gs must be <9.00 or >=9.01] (3 replies)

vmiklos — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:10:22 -0500

Hi,

I've installed manually (from the website) foo2zjs 2011_12_27 on openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, and test page works fine. Also in general, looks like normal printing works as well. Now today I had a longer pdf and wanted n-up printing (from okular, selecting 2 pages on a sheet), and it worked, but the result was corrupted.

Here is a good result:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QkYH7ICzsUk/TxBErGMeKWI/AAAAAAAAA9w/t7C6DuQiCs0/I/2012-01-13%25252015.50.09.jpg

Here is a bad one:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-QI4gw7aN0Jk/TxBEmuCNIII/AAAAAAAAA9o/GmKCfm97GXs/I/2012-01-13%25252015.49.49.jpg

As far as I see I can reproduce this with any PDF, but in case needed, I can share the test document as well.

Do you have any idea what may cause the problem? Originally psutils was not installed, I installed it, restarted cups, but the situation did not change.

Thanks!

OKI C5500 on Linux Mint Debian (no replies)

carl.net — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:33:35 -0500

Grabbed your driver package, downloaded it, unpacked, compiled, grabbed the C5500 ICM profile and then went into the graphical print configuration tool under Administration. The printer driver was right there ready to go. Has anyone told you that you rock lately! ThanX and yes I made a donation.

I do have an "Unknown" shown on the top line of my printers LCD panel after I print but who cares the driver prints just fine. And cups is even reporting my toner levels correctly as a bonus.

HP Laserjet M1136 MFP [ARM] (2 replies)

julians — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:44:55 -0500

I was trying to get the HPLIP drivers working on an ARM machine. No luck -- the binary blob must be causing problems. Followed a lead on Google, and turns out that the M1319 foo2zjs driver partially works for the M1136.

Partially means: text prints fine (looks good, actually!) but graphics come out as crazy interference. Anyone have any clues how to fix that last problem?

But big thanks to the foo2zjs team for making it possible for me to use the printer with my ARM machine!

Help for fine tuning (3 replies)

yvesf — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:44:13 -0500

Hello,

Now that my LaserJet 1500 works on my Mac, I'd like to work on fine tuning.

Using the Testpage.ps, the 0.5 inch line is 1/16 inch from left of page and 1/32 inch from right of page. Top and bottom are OK.

Is there a way to "tune" that ?

Also, I got a hand on HP's .ICC file for the HP Color LaserJet 1500 (from HP's own driver). Could we get better colors using it ? The colors we have now are pretty good already.

Thanks !

Yves

Mac : Printer Setup can't find driver (12 replies)

yvesf — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:58:30 -0500

Hi everyone,

I installed foo2oak on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard). I followed the instructions in the INSTALL and INSTALL.osx files, and everything seemed to work fine.

The only thing that didn't work first time is that I got a message telling me that it could not copy files in /usr/share/foomatic/db/source, so I created the directory and ran make, getweb 1500 and make install again.

The last step, create printers, is causing me problems. I trying to add the printer using Mac's Printer Setup Utility. It can "see" the printer, but the Foomatic/foo2oak driver for the HP Color LaserJet 1500 doesn't show in the list.

Any hints ?

Thanks,

Yves

found HP Color LaserJet 1500 .ICM files ? (no replies)

yvesf — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:38:42 -0500

The documentation says that .ICM files would be needed to get better quality, but the author didn't find any.

I have an old Mac that works with the LaserJet 1500 using old HP drivers. I found on the Mac a file called sRGB_A.icc . The file is from HP and is for use with the HP Color LaserJet 1500 printer.

I can provide the file if it can be useful for anyone.

Thanks,

Yves

Difference between foo2oak and foo2zjs (2 replies)

yvesf — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:20:05 -0500

Hello,

To install foo2oak, I understand than I need to download foo2zjs, not foo2oak.

I compared the install instructions for both and it looks quite similar.

So what's the difference between them ?

Thanks,

Yves

impossible to install a ghostscript that works on Ubuntu 11.10 [solved] (2 replies)

bodinux — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 03:32:22 -0500

Hi Richard,

Running ubuntu 11.10, I tried unsuccessfully to compile and install ghostscript 8.71 (see error below). Therefore despite your good work, I have bad colors.

This problem exists since gs 9.00 (i.e. Sept. 2010). Is Ghostscript aware of this issue ? Do you know if they are working to solve it ?

What is your advice to have a good quality color print with an up to date linux system ?

Thanks
bodinux

For information only : Error in ghostscript 8.71 make with ubuntu 11.10:

Quote

In file included from ./base/gp_unix.c:19:0:
./base/time_.h:49:8: erreur: redefinition of ‘struct timeval’
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/time.h:75:8: note: originally defined here

Re: CLP300 & Ubuntu 10.04 [solved; USB problem] (17 replies)

amicable — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:58:33 -0500

Hello

After following the installation instructions carefully,

I'm getting a

Unsupported format 'application/vnd.cups-banner'!

when trying a test page after installing printer via http://localhost:631/

When trying to print a simple line of text from gedit, cups reports:

stopped 
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps failed"

I tried the test:

foo2qpdl-wrapper -z0 -p2 testpage.ps > xxx.prn
ls -l xxx.prn
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 92111 2011-12-08 17:35 xxx.prn
nc 192.168.xxx.yyy 9100 < xxx.prn

mentioned in the previous thread and got

nc: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

Maybe that's useful...

I've been struggling with this printer for a couple of days now. It worked fine a few years ago on a previous Ubuntu installation and I've just dusted it off after my other laser died on me.

Any clues what to do next?

Many thanks, Paul

HP Laserjet 1215 [mac] (6 replies)

iDrivercars — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:04:42 -0500

Hi,
I have just bought a new iMac and cannot get my printer to work. I have spent all my cash on this for a new business venture,unfortunately i am not good with computers and the jargon you all speak means very little to me. i live in UK but would appreciate a step by step guide or even a phone call with some help. PLEASE PLEASE

Missing hp-cp1025.tar.gz? (5 replies)

PelusaWoman — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:46:32 -0500

I'm getting this message when downloading 1025:

getweb: Couldn't download http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/icm/hp-cp1025.tar.gz

SPL-C ERROR - Including Corrupted Header Data (4 replies)

hjpriester — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:54:56 -0500

System: RedHat enterprise 6.1 - 64bit (CUPS 1.4.2 / GhostScript 8.70)

I have compiled and installed foo2zjs today and when I print a 3 page PDF
using Evince I get a page with the following message:

SPC-C ERROR - Including Corrupted Header Data

POSITION: 0x0 (0)
SYSTEM : src_5.43/xl_image
LINE : 872
VERSION : SPL-C 5.43 08-12-2009

make: *** [command2foo2lava-pjl] Error 1 [solved] (13 replies)

acouto — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:47:14 -0500

Hi.
Please give me some help, on the foo2zjs installation.
My Operating System is: Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.7 x86-32bits

When i run the 'make' command, it does not finish because when the installation tries to run: cc -O2 -Wall -L/usr/local/lib command2foo2lava-pjl.o -lcups -o command2foo2lava-pjl. It gives me the error make: *** [command2foo2lava-pjl] Error 1.

Best Regards,
Adelino Couto
Portugal