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hp2600n: No color printing, b/w works fine [solved; SUSE SLES10SP2, ghostscript 8.70] (5 replies)

smd — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:04:38 -0400

It's a 2600n connected via network in order to make it accessible to several people. Server OS is SLES10 SP2 64bit.
Ghostscript 8.14 was installed before and color printing was working but the results were really bad :( I somewhere read that the gs8.14 version might be the cause for this. So I updated to gs8.70 and installed foo2hp again. B/W printing works fine but color printing won't. Not even the CUPS or Yast test pages are printed. But CUPS lists those jobs as finished.
I tried all settings (color profiles, bits per plane,...) but as soon as you switch color mode from monochrome to color the printer is like dead :/

Anyone can help? Or maybe a clue what the problem is (Ghostscript, SLES, 64bit, foo2hp, some/wrong configuration or the printer itself)??

Thanks

Wrong color alignment for HP2600n, RHEL5 [solved; CUPS/foomatic problem] (6 replies)

keithl — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:59:47 -0500

I am using a clone of RHEL5, approximately the same as Fedora Core 6, and get a funny color Alignment offset. It uses CUPS 1.3.7 . I do not have the problem with Ubuntu Hardy, which also uses CUPS 1.3.7 .

I set the CUPS "printer options" Alignment Offset (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) to all 0, and print a test page. The colors are offset by -100 lines, downwards. If I set the offsets to +2 or -2, the offsets are small. The numbers stored in the /etc/cups/ppd/myprinter.ppd file look OK.

As a test, I hacked the /usr/bin/foo2hp2600-wrapper file for a quick-and-dirty fix:

BEFORE

| foo2hp -r$RES -g$DIM -p$PAPER -m$MEDIA -n$COPIES -d$DUPLEX -s$SOURCE \
            $COLOR -b$BPP $CLIP_UL $CLIP_LR $CLIP_LOG $SAVETONER \
            -O$OFF_C,$OFF_M,$OFF_Y,$OFF_K -J "$LPJOB" -U "$USER" \
            $BC $AIB $COLOR2MONO $NOPLANES $EXTRAPAD -D$DEBUG

AFTER

| foo2hp -r$RES -g$DIM -p$PAPER -m$MEDIA -n$COPIES -d$DUPLEX -s$SOURCE \
            $COLOR -b$BPP $CLIP_UL $CLIP_LR $CLIP_LOG $SAVETONER \
            -O0,0,0,0 -J "$LPJOB" -U "$USER" \
            $BC $AIB $COLOR2MONO $NOPLANES $EXTRAPAD -D$DEBUG

That got rid of the offset. I'm not much of a programmer, but I suspect that RHEL5 adds a different number of spaces the arguments, and the substr function in the options processing code is clipping the option lines wrong, for example:

          c=*|C=*) OFF_C=`expr substr $OPTARG 3 99`;;

... or the expr is not handling the zero numeral correctly. I'm guessing that a regular expression should be used instead of a substring, but I will leave that to the folks that know what they are doing. For now, I'll just use the hack (I don't need to offset colors) until something better comes along. Ideas? Suggested other tests?

Installing foo2hp on acer aspire one linpus linux (3 replies)

sinha130 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:45:03 -0500

I was following your website instructions for Acer Aspire One but got the following error on the last command.
Could you please help. I cant pint using my 2600n The test page does not go thru.
Thanks
Ashok Sinha

Error msg from the terminal window is pasted below-

[root@localhost user]# tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
[root@localhost user]# cd foo2zjs
[root@localhost foo2zjs]# make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/foo2zjs/icc2ps'

It is possible that certain products which can be built using this
software module might form inventions protected by patent rights in
some countries (e.g., by patents about arithmetic coding algorithms
owned by IBM and AT&T in the USA). Provision of this software by the
author does NOT include any licences for any patents. In those
countries where a patent licence is required for certain applications
of this software module, you will have to obtain such a licence
yourself.
[root@localhost foo2zjs]# ./getweb 2600n
hpclj2600n-0.icm
hpclj2600n-1.icm
km2430_2.icm

(c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2003

(c) Copyright Rick Richardson 2006. All Rights Reserved

hp1215-argyll-0.icm

(c) Copyright Rick Richardson 2008. All Rights Reserved

[root@localhost foo2zjs]# make install install-hotplug cups
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/foo2zjs/icc2ps'

It is possible that certain products which can be built using this
software module might form inventions protected by patent rights in
some countries (e.g., by patents about arithmetic coding algorithms
owned by IBM and AT&T in the USA). Provision of this software by the
author does NOT include any licences for any patents. In those
countries where a patent licence is required for certain applications
of this software module, you will have to obtain such a licence
yourself.
#
# Installation Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
#
# Install driver, wrapper, and development tools
#
install -d /usr/bin
make: install: Command not found
make: *** [install-prog] Error 127

two errors in 2600n installation [debian 5; solved] (4 replies)

roberto — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:08:30 -0500

hello, i try to install HP LJ 2600n on a Debian 5.0;
i follow stricly the procedure in INSTALL file and everything is correct until i try to issue the command

# make install

inside the foo2zjs directory;
then the installation exit with error code 1, reporting:

/bin/sh: line 18: cd: PPD: No such file or directory
/bin/sh: line 20: *.ppd: No such file or directory
make: *** [install-ppd] Error 1

moreover, the foo2zjs is *totally* erased, it does not exist anymore;
thank you in advance for any help

Bad photo printing [kubuntu 9.04] (3 replies)

smeagal — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:56:36 -0400

I installed a HP 2600NSE (SE, may be Special Edition, could not find anything on the Web) for a friend on a Kubuntu 9.04 System, and we had the same "aligator-skin" in our color printouts, like on ben106's pic above. That is, if i used 1-Bit Plane and Color Correction, not if i switched to 2-Bit Plane (but the colors looked all wrong then :-) ).
This is the verion i installed following your install text :
$Id: foo2hp2600-wrapper.in,v 1.65 2009/05/11 17:35:55 rick Exp $
$Id: foo2hp.c,v 1.44 2009/04/22 12:56:16 rick Exp $
$Id: foo2zjs-pstops.sh,v 1.13 2008/12/05 02:46:35 rick Exp $
The gs verion on his system seems to be 8.64, which is supposed to be buggy, could this be related?
Thanks for help.
Regards from Germany
PS: Is there a way to do "nc" for a printer that is connected to usb?

I'm back to getting 72-byte-output [Gentoo] (3 replies)

Tanktalus — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:40:34 -0400

I'm back to getting 72-byte-output from "foo2hp2600-wrapper -c print.ps > xxx.prn" ... but when I go to ghostscript directly, running your sample command from http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690287 , I get a big file, not 0-byte like that defect says. So I'm not sure what else is in the pipeline that may be broken.

Colour printing doesn't work (1 reply)

paolsil — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:05:08 -0400

Dear Rick,
last days both you and I were talking about problems with my HP 2600n printer, but... the topic disappeared! I hope not to have written bad words or things alike...
Unfortunately, my printer doesn't work anymore.
Thank you for your attention
Silvia

color printing fails [ghostscript 8.64 is TOAST] (2 replies)

Tanktalus — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:41:34 -0500

When running "foo2hp2600-wrapper -c testpage.ps > xxx.prn" on Gentoo, I end up with a 72-byte file. It obviously doesn't print the test page.

If I remove the -c, then xxx.prn gets to 62384 bytes, and, though I didn't test this one, I've sent a previous non-colour page to the printer using netcat since having this problem.

I'm not sure where the issue would be - ghostscript version 8.64 (based on "gs --version"), so maybe that's new?

Ubuntu 8.04 - manual duplex won't work [solved] (3 replies)

Yenlowang — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:13:55 -0500

Hello everybody,

Just updatet to the latest version of the driver but still have a problem.

I use the HP 2600n and need to print sumetimes with the duplex function.
Only problem - the very last page won't print.

When I print 6 Pages - I get the first 3 - then put them back into the printer - and then I only got 2 pages - leaving side 2 unprintet.

anyone who can help to solv this?

No border -> problems (1 reply)

matias — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:17:23 -0500

I have noticed that if you try to print A4 page which does not have borders, HP 2600n doesn't print anything. The file is taken to the printer, but it just discards it (safety measure?). Is it possible to scale page down or remove contents from the borders if it doesn't fit into A4?

If I resize the print to 95% of original, the page will be printed. Unfortunately the left margin is still 0 and the printer does not print 1-2 first letters. If you make the print smaller, system should add left margin to the page.

System: Ubuntu 8.04 with the newest foo2hp.

SuSE 11.0 No Joy [solved] (5 replies)

Wylbur — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:34:11 -0500

I have had my HP LJ2600n running fine with SuSE 10.2 & 10.3. It works great with my 10.3 64bit system.

Since taking my laptop to 11.0, I can't get it to work with the 2600n. While it can see it on the LAN, it can't print to it.

So, is there something special that I need to do, or obtain, to do the make/install so that YAST can get it right?

Regards,
Steve.T

HP 2600n and custom sizes [solved] (5 replies)

Dominique — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:21:19 -0500

How can I manage to write custom sizes like 10x15 cm ?
It is no option for that into CUPS printer dialog or configuration dialog when other printers, even very cheap ones, do have such options.

CLJ2600n prints only monochrome [Ubuntu 8.04 - Did not read the instructions] (7 replies)

Maxx — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:53:36 -0400

Hallo,

I want to use my HP-CLJ2600n on Ubuntu 8.04. Have installed foo2hp with ppd-file for 2600n and created a new cups-printer (on :9100). I've choosen the "foo2hp (recomended)"-driver.

I have a RAW-printer on the same IP too (for testing).

With 'foo2hp2600-wrapper -c testfile.ps | lpr -Pclj-RAW' I get the testpage in fine colors on the Paper.

But only by this way. With the right printer using the foo2hp-driver I get every page in monochrom.

I also tested the ghostscript-version with:

gs -q ... -sOutputFile- testfile.ps | foo2hp -c | lpr -Pclj-RAW

and it prints the page in colors.

What can be wrong?

HP color laser jet 2600n running in SuSE 11.0 (no replies)

viniciobucheli — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:26:50 -0400

I just installed the foo2hp printer driver in SuSE linux 11.0
just folow the instructions in INSTALL at foo2zjs package.

make
./getweb 2600n
su password (root password)
make install

I rebooted my system just to be sure
I do also deleted any previous hlclj 2600n printer installed (again just to be sure)

I do also opened the CUPS printing system to keep track of what I? doing
but only to folow the proccess

1ST run YAST
open printers on hardware
Printer qeues will be highlighted
click on ADD button

Then pick network printer or local printer (network printer in my case)
click on PRINT DIRECTLY TO A NETWORK PRINTER and click NEXT

AT PRINTER TYPE CHOOSE direct tcp por printing and click next

Imput your printer IP number and click on TEST REMOTE SOCKET ACCESS
If you have a window telling you PRINT SERVER IS ACCESIBLE you're almost done

At queue Name and spooler sttingss name your printer with no spaces

example HPCLJ2600N as a name

Optionally hp Color Laser Jet 2600n as description
and in my case HOME as location
Uncheck DO LOCAL FILTERING
then click next.

You will be again at printers main window

************ NOW *****************

Go To your browser Cups Window
Click on MODIFY PRINTER at PRINTERS tab

You'll get a APPSOCKET/ JET DIRECT button then continue button
wirte down your IP as follows

socket://192.168.1.77:9100

Just replace your this IP for my IP and left the :9100 at the end with no spaces

In Make/Manufacturer for HLCLJ2600N window
scroll down to HP then click continue
At Model/Driver for HLCLJ2600N window

scrolldown for your hp model
and chhose the HP Color LaserJet 2600n Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended) (en)
*** you might have more than one ***
Then click modify Printer button
and that's it
By default printing is on black so you must change it to color

So now we must set printer options clicking the button for that

For my daily use it need to change this followings settings

PRINT QUALITY=DRAFT
COLOR MODE = COLOR
BITS PER PANE = 2 THIS WILL INCREASE THE OUTPUT QUALITY
ICM COLOR PROFILE = FILE HPCLH2600N-1.ICM (ICC FACTORY 1) *** this set just worked fine for me otherwise change this setting after you get the printed test page

last click on set printer options button
And finally
You're ready to print a test page in color

I hope this step by step works for you
Vini.

paper size on laserjet 2600n does not fit [NO problem] (9 replies)

osk — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:54:39 -0400

Hi!

I tried out today (19.09.2008) on Ubuntu 8.04.1 the great foo2hp from http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ with a HP Color LaserJet 2600n following the install instructions there. It seems to work perfect with only one parameter making problems:

The page size. I enabled "A4" for "Page Size" through the CUPS Interface (and also Color), but the printed test page doesn't fit on the page. It seems to be bigger. But everything (as I know) seems to be correct: the paper used, the paper position, the paper size configured for the printer and even the values printed on the test page are correct:
-----
Page Size:
8.27x11.69in
210.0x297.0mm
Lower Left:
...0...
...0...
Upper Right:
8.27x11.69in
210.0x297.0mm
Resolution:
600x600dpi
23562x23562dpm

Interpreter Information:
PostScript: Level 3
Version: 3010 (861)
Product: GPL Ghostscript
Serial #: 42
-----

I used the provided .ppd from the tarball.

I will be very happy about any hint to fix this problem or what I could try to limit the possible error reason(s)! Donation for the project for success promised.

Thanks,
Andreas

foo2hp and bpp2 support (1 reply)

matias — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:53:56 -0400

I've been playing with foo2hp today and also looked at the source code in order to make Bpp=2 look better.

Where can I find info of the Bpp=2 mode and does anyone know why it is using too much toner and how to prevent it?

The instructions in the INSTALL file do not work (Ubuntu 7.10):

> gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r600x600 -sDEVICE=bitcmyk -sOutputFile=- - < /usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-a4.ps | foo2hp2600-wrapper -r600x600 -p9 >testpage.prn
Not a pbm file!

The file itself causes a segfault (if using color):

> foo2hp2600-wrapper -c /usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-a4.ps >testpage.prn
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I haven't yet looked why..

HP2600N connecting to EEEPC (10 replies)

davidaustin2006 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:05:09 -0400

Hi All,
I should state at the outset that I know next to nothing about Linux, so please forgive my simplistic detail of my problem.

Basically, I am trying to use a HP2600N as a printer for my EEEPC which is running the "plain vanilla" user interface. Reading various postings,I believe the Operating system is a modified version of Xandros.

The scenario I have is a D-Link DSL-G604T Wireless Router/Modem that is connected to my ADSL server. The Router has 4 wired inputs, plus wireless connectivity. I am currently using 3 of the 4 inputs (1 PC running Windows XP, 1 PC running Windows Vista & an HP2600N colour laser printer). They are all networked together so that either PC can print to the HP2600N (providing the router is switched on of course!!).

I recently bought the EEEPC, and have successfully set it up to connect wirelessly to the router, and can thus access the Internet, and exchange files between it and the other 2 PCs. So far so good!!

I would like to be able to print from the EEEPC to the HP2600N, so I went to the "Add Printer" wizard on the EEEPC. I select "Network Printer", and "Network type as "Other". I select "AppSocket/HP JetDirect (socket)" and "Find". This takes me to the "Find Network Printer" with a Subnet of 10.1.1.* 9100. I hit "Scan" and it finds the printer at 10.1.1.4 (The base address of the Router is 10.1.1.1). I select this and hit "Next", and it takes me to the "Set Printer Model" page where it has already selected Manufacturer as "HP" Model as "Color Laser Jet 2600N" and Driver as "Foomatic + foo2hp" so I click "Next", and it opens a new page and asks if I want to send a Test Page. I select "Yes", and it appears to send some data, as its status goes from "Idle, Accepting Jobs" to "Busy, Accepting Jobs" and shortly thereafter back to "Idle Accepting Jobs". Unfortunately, nothing happens at the printer.

I have tried different drivers, but nothing seems to work. If I select "foomatic + foo2zjs", I get the printer to start up, and eject paper, but nothing is printed on it. I tried also sending small documents, but again no joy.

I have seen descriptions for installing foo2hp, but none of them seems to relate to the EEEPC environment, so I am reluctant to try in case I mess up the system. Also I don't know if it is the same "foo2hp" I already have pre-installed on the EEEPC, so I may be wasting my time trying to download it.

Assuming it is a updated version, how do I install it? Does it replace the existing one or is it stored in another location. Also the driver says "foomatic + foo2hp", so does "foomatic" also get downloaded at the same time as the "foo2hp" if I use the one on this website? You can see, I am really struggling here, so I would welcome any advice.

I have contacted HP & ASUS, and they all "disavow any knowledge of my actions"!!
I have searched every HP, Linux & EEEPC forum, but come up empty.

Incidentally, I also connected the HP2600N direct into one of the USB ports on the EEEPC. It was recognised and installed with the same drivers, but with precisely the same result ie NOTHING, so it is not a network problem, but seemingly a driver problem. Needless to say, the 2 PCs on the network can print flawlessly to the HP2600N, so it is not a fault on the printer. Also, if I type in from the EEEPC web browser "http://10.1.1.4"; it brings up the Printer's Webpage, so the network seems to be working fine.

Any thoughts.
All advice gladly accepted, and naturally a donation would be forthcoming if I can solve this problem.
Regards
davidaustin2006

OpenSUSE 10.3 install (1 reply)

KennV — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:46:01 -0400

It's been about a year since I updated my notes on how to install ghostscript and foo2hp on OpenSuse. It the meantime it's become a whole lot easier to get good quality prints so I figured a new post was due.

Here we go.

Use Yast to add this repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_10.3/

Use Yast to upgrade the following Ghostscript packages to 8v61:
ghostscript-fonts-other
ghostscript-fonts-std
ghostscript-library
ghostscript-x11
ghostscript-omni (was added automagically)

Follow the excellent documentation provided here:
http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/
and in the INSTALL file.

That is it!!

Easy huh? Don't forget to donate for the driver.

KennV

HP2600N Using Too Much Toner (4 replies)

roger — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:22:03 -0400

For some reason, my printouts look extremely dark. Especially when compared to MS Window's printouts.

When I use Linux, the printouts look as if the printer is just dumping toner.

I've played with several settings, but the only setting that helps is setting the "Print Quality" to "Draft Mode" instead of using "Normal Mode". It is so bad, "Normal Mode" creates printouts with bleeding colors.

"Draft Mode" seems better, but lacks color saturation. Blues look really black. "Normal Mode" provides some color with blues, but it's a really dark blue.

(Using the latest download and deleted the existing cups printer entries and then let cups recreate the printer entries for kicks.)

Nothing prints out [gs is buggy, RedHat EL] (9 replies)

jtoc — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:13:31 -0500

I've had no problems printing to my 2600n since I set up a year ago until suddenly today. I followed the procedure above-- it didn't print, and I got back an error message:

[root@localhost foo2zjs]# ./foo2hp2600-wrapper testpage.ps >xxx
Not a pbm file!

I haven't made any changes to my system, installed any software, or really done anything. Any advice?

Thanks.
-M

Install of Driver [RedHat EL 4?] (1 reply)

rak — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:22:57 -0500

I am trying to istall the driver on a Linux Redhat Enterprise System.
2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 13 17:56:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
The initial make ran with out errors.
The download of the icm files was tricky but eventually worked.
The make install gives this error.

[root@acnlin71 foo2zjs]# make install
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/drivers/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/drivers/foo2zjs/icc2ps'

It is possible that certain products which can be built using this
software module might form inventions protected by patent rights in
some countries (e.g., by patents about arithmetic coding algorithms
owned by IBM and AT&T in the USA). Provision of this software by the
author does NOT include any licences for any patents. In those
countries where a patent licence is required for certain applications
of this software module, you will have to obtain such a licence
yourself.
#
# Installation Dependencies...
#
***
*** Error: foomatic-rip is not installed!
***
*** Install foomatic package(s) for your OS
***
make: *** [install-test] Error 1

My rpm -qa | grep foo shows this.....
[root@acnlin71 foo2zjs]# rpm -aq | grep foo
foomatic-2.0.2-15.1.1
Omni-foomatic-0.7.2-4

So what foomatic-rip package are we talking about here to be installed?

Roger A. Katz
Brookhaven National Lab
C-AD Department
Controls Division

SuSE 10.2, 10.3 (no replies)

Wylbur — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:45:38 -0500

I followed the directions and I have it working as a networked printer, monochrome and full color.

And I agree with you, shame on HP for their behavior with this printer.

BTW - I have done this install as well for my Linspire 5.0.39, 427(?) installs to get this to work. Because of support issues I had with Linspire, I switched to SuSE 10.2 and have recently upgraded to 10.3.

Regards

Problem with direct printing [1-bit per plane for best colors] (4 replies)

ilrobyt — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:35:33 -0500

In first excuse for the english :-(
If i print directly (from firefox, gimp etc) the colors are too bad, if i decode by hand the ps generated from the program and then send it to the printer the colors are good
An example
robyt:~# foo2hp2600-wrapper -V
$Id: foo2hp2600-wrapper.in,v 1.60 2007/12/27 06:52:45 rick Exp $
$Id: foo2hp.c,v 1.40 2007/12/09 06:57:03 rick Exp $
$Id: foo2zjs-pstops.sh,v 1.11 2007/12/27 06:45:28 rick Exp $

robyt:~# gs --version
8.61

(with color profile 1 or 2 is the same)
I use cups (1.3.5) with HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n.ppd (in foo2zjs source)

Nothing prints out (3 replies)

ah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:41:32 -0500

Just followed the install instructions and set up my print queues as described but no pages print out on my 2600n. The documents seem to be passing thru the queue normally and the printer does print from windows.

Bad photo printing [gentoo] (9 replies)

ben106 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:32:21 -0400

Hi,
I installed the foo2hp driver for the HP2600n Color laser printer, everything is working but color photo printing is bad quality.
A scan of the picture printed with Windows :
And with foo2hp (Gentoo linux) :

I think this problem is known (I saw people talking about "aligator-skin" on some forums). I tried to change some things in the ppd, but nothing worked.

Is a solution available ?

Thanks

Ben

2600n doesn't print on 64-bit laptop (2 replies)

edtman — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:46:04 -0400

I have a 2600n on my home network with 2 boxes. Both have suse 10.2. foo2hp was installed the same way on both. The printer web server is viewable from both.

Problem is the desktop (x86) prints fine, but the laptop with an AMD turion X86_64 will not. The list of jobs in cups all say "aborted" for print jobs from the laptop.

Does make install put any lib files on the system which maybe should be in a different directory for the x86_64 machine?

Ed Harrison

foo2zjs on Mandriva 2007 spring (2 replies)

cortezb3 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:18:56 -0400

I had previous success with Mandriva 2006.0 and 2007.0. I am running 2.6.17-14mdv and got the foo2zjs.tar.gz. I ungzipped cd and ran
[root@localhost foo2zjs]# make uninstall
it removed appropriate files...

I ran:

[root@localhost foo2zjs]# make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all

I'll spare you the verbose hash, but make ran wget, grabbed the tarballs and installed them properly.

I ran ./getweb 2600n --no problems.

I ran make cups [it restarted CUPS but I restarted again anyway with 'service cups restart']

I then ran printerdrake and this is where the errors begin.

I pointed the GUI to the correct IP address [yes, I am sure of the IP address] and used port 9100. I selected the ppd from the hp list [2600n] and i got the following error.

lpadmin: File device URIs have been disabled! To enable, see the FileDevice directive in "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf".

A review of this file showed no reference of this directive.

I browsed the list for tips and saw hplip should be avoided. I ran
rpm -qa|grep hplip and found it installed but I can't uninstall hplip-hpijs-1.6.12-2mdv2007.1.i586 without breaking printerdrake and subsequently drakconf.

This is a new install of the latest from Mandriva free.

Anyone have a suggestion, I'd appreciate it.

Regards,
cortezb3

ubuntu 7.04 hplip problem? (3 replies)

divergent_tdog — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:03:26 -0400

I tried all this and the extra line for ubuntu (7.04), too. Could it be that I tried to use hplip previously before realizing that it didn't support 2600n? When I first went to add the printer it had a 2600n without reference to hplip and one with reference to hplip. Now it only shows the one with reference to hplip. I still can't print in color. Any ideas? (I'm very new to linux - yesterday - so more detail is better than less!)

ghostscript (1 reply)

vstierhof — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:07:07 -0400

Hi there,

with your help I got the hp2600 printing in fine colors -- thank you!

But I've got another problem with it: Installing Ghostscript8.54 and running configure, the machine doesn't recognize a running X-Server and so disabling X-Window-output of image-files with gs. Don't know, how to manage that! Any suggestions?

System: x86-PC with opensuse10.2 (the other one is opensuse10.2 -- same procedure!)

Thanks for your answers!

Stierhof

Support status on this printer (1 reply)

GomoX — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:42:09 -0400

Hey everyone,

First of all, to all the developers, thanks for kindly providing a good driver for this printer. It's very nice of you.

I'd like to know what's the current support status. I've read it works over Ethernet using CUPS but I have read on old blog posts that image support is not very good. I haven't bought the printer yet but it's a bargain around here, at around US$ 250 with toners, and I'd like to buy one if it will work decently under Linux. Does the Linux support give the same quality in printing as doing it under windows?

Thanks,

Gonzalo