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Practical installation on multiple Macs (no replies)

AprilHare — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:28:08 -0400

Hello,
I am interested in the foo2hp driver for multiple Macs at my domestile; yes, we all purchased Macbook Pros and have a CP1215 lying around just waiting to get it's ink supply all used up.. :)
Now, in order to do this we are aware that we must follow the instructions in INSTALL.OSX - I have the technical ability to follow those instructions on my Mac but the rest of the Macs don't even have XCode installed (there is even now an extra step required for Mountain Lion users I understand where the terminal commands that go with XCode are now a separate download) nor is there time for all that mucking around on other peoples MacBook Pros.
If it were packaged and easily installable there wouldn't be an issue..
Has anyone looked into properly packaging foo2x? Specifically we need foo2hp packaged, along with running dependencies (Ghostscript presumably - in a separate place so not to wipe over other ghostscript installs).
All the Macs are running Mountain Lion so if the package was Mountain Lion compatible it would be extra nice.
I don't know what else to do but ask nicely :) Please!...

Why make separate queues for color and B&W ? (1 reply)

spookybathtub — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:40:28 -0400

I followed the instructions on this site to setup my CP1215 on Mac OS 10.6. It works great, the only problem is the colors don't look totally right. But no big deal.
My question is — why do the instructions say to create separate print queues for color and B&W? I've tried printing black text using the color queue and it seems to work fine. Is there any reason not to do this?

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

Can't compile foo2zjs [Mac OS 10.6.7, Solved] (4 replies)

cetera — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:30:47 -0400

I've already done all steps from INSTALL.osx, but when I try to make foo2zjs I get this error:

$ make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused-but-set-variable   -c -o foo2zjs.o foo2zjs.c
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable"
make: *** [foo2zjs.o] Error 1

Any ideas?

CP 1215 Doesn't Print Color [Mac OSX; solved: don't use Camino] (4 replies)

beeser — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:48:06 -0400

I've just installed the foo2hp driver for Mac OSX in my second computer, a desktop and a Macbook, and I'm having the same problem with each install. No color. When I go to "Set Printer Options" in CUPS, I select "Color" in "Color Mode", hit "Set Printer Options", do a test page, and it's monochrome. Going back to the "Set Printer Options" shows it' re-selected itself to "Monochrome". Both units are running OSX 10.5.8, and I used the latest version of ghostscript (9.0.2). What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

CP1215 doesn't print [Mac OSX; solved] (11 replies)

kostas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:49:16 -0500

Mac OS X 10.6.4
ghostscript @9.00 print/ghostscript
coreutils @8.4 sysutils/coreutils
wget @1.12 net/wget

I've been already done all steps from INSTALL.osx but it didn't worked out. When I send test page from cups to printer I see:
USBF: 412302.832 AppleUSBEHCI[0x830e000]::Found a transaction which hasn't moved in 5 seconds on bus 0x24, timing out! (Addr: 2, EP: 1)

after a while...

CUPS logs:
localhost - kostas [18/Sep/2010:11:09:45 +0400] "GET /admin/log/access_log? HTTP/1.1" 200 222991 - -
localhost - - [18/Sep/2010:11:14:12 +0400] "POST /printers/HP_Color_LaserJet_CP1215 HTTP/1.1" 200 499 Print-Job successful-ok

So, as I understand cups thinks that it printed the test page, the task is dissapearing from the list of pending printer tasks, so all ok! :) But printer doesn't know that it "prints" :)

I've already printed successfully on this system, but then either after updating OS or some other software like CUPS it refuses to print! How can I solve this?

CP1215 yellow alignment [solved] (5 replies)

stefandoesinger — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:13:33 -0400

I have the issue described in http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?57,1481 , but the topic is closed so I have to start a new topic.

Printing something like this: http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0526822/colorline.ps
Looks like this: http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0526822/colorline.jpg

This happens with both foo2hp and hplip. The Windows drivers works fine. There is however some oddity with remote printing on Windows: The same problem occurs if the driver is installed manually. Remote printing works if I let windows fetch the driver from the Windows server. I have described this behavior here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/403052 (Yes, I am aware hplip != foo2hp, but I don't want to type all this again)

I suspect that there are different kinds of CP1215 printers, and some have proper yellow alignment, while others don't, and the windows driver knows about this and corrects this in software. Is there any way to dump information about the printer? Or is the serial number all we have?

I pledge a $100 donation to the foo2hp project if this issue is resolved, even if its hacky workaround that requires me to configure some yellow offset in the ppd file manually.

cp1217 no error, but does not print ! [solved. Did not read INSTALL file] (3 replies)

chatgonzo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:29:08 -0400

I'm using a small sourcebased distribution called crux.
I followed the instruction and compiled from source:
make
./getweb 1215 # Get HP LaserJet CP1215 .ICM files
make install
/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart
http://localhost:631
Description: HP Color LaserJet CP1217
Location: daheim
Printer Driver: HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: usb://HP/Color%20LaserJet%20CP1217

lp test.txt -> no error, but does not print !
How to solve the trouble ?

cupsd.log:

[rickrich: DELETED - I cannot understand CUPS logs]

foo2zjs and ubuntu 9.04 [prints fine here] (11 replies)

beppe_rm — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:16:42 -0400

hi friends,

I followed installing instructions of foo2zjs; it works, but...but it prints a rectangle about cm 9*6 in the left head; maybe have I to change some option?
thanks in advance

beppe

Feature request: Ignore "empty" cartridges (1 reply)

jsthemaster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:08:39 -0400

Hello developers,

is it possible to implement a function making the printer ignore cartridges with a page counter of zero?
Most time those cartridges can print about 100 additional pages before they are really empty.
The Windows driver has this function and in my opinion it just saves plain money.

Is there a possibility that I can help ( capturing USB traffic... )?

Greetings,
jsthemaster.

CP1215 stopped printing in color [gs 8.64 is toast] (9 replies)

troncoso — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:39:59 -0500

I bought my CP1215 on 14 January and I set it up correctly, so that it worked both in B&W and color modes. A few days ago, however, I noticed that color printing didn't work.

The printer just does nothing when you sent a color job to it, but CUPS reports that the job was completed successfully. The printer prints correctly in color from Windows XP running on VirtualBox.

I use ArchLinux with kernel 2.6.28 and CUPS 1.3.9.

Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.

B&W only on mac os x 10.5 [solved] (3 replies)

mleone — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:59:47 -0500

I got the cp1215 working but it only prints black and white and I cant find a way to print in color.

I'm running the current ver of ghost, and foo on os x 10.5.6. All built with xcode download last night. I downloaded the imc files (./getweb 1215 thingy).

Is there a switch I missed or something I need to turn on?

stops printing and wont print from remote linux boxs (no replies)

jaybocc2 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:55:35 -0500

It will only print from the server and network windows box's.

i have to powercycle my printer in order to get it to print again after trying to print from my networked linux box.

I'm using Debian 4.0R6 on both the server and the Linux networked client.

Windows XP on one windows client and windows vista on the other.

Installed using the install instructions on this site.

Solid black page [Mac OSX] (1 reply)

j-town — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:30:19 -0500

I now have ghostscript installed (I had to upgrade to a newer version of XCode).

I now find the printer when using OSX system preferences to add a printer, but when I print A SOLID BLACK PAGE COMES OUT OF THE PRINTER.

I followed the directions above and [foo2zjs.rkkda.com] lead me to
http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ for HP CP1215 which I followed.

Any suggestions?

CP1215 under Ubuntu 8.04 - Color Correction (13 replies)

jstarkey — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:57:46 -0400

I'm a C++ kinda guy who's relatively new to programming, but I'd like to offer my assistance to this project if it can be used in any way.

I have successfully installed my CP1215 under Ubuntu Linux using the provided instructions - however, I do have a color problem (shadowing) mentioned several times related to the PC version. The only way to perform calibration appears to be using a PC, however.

Are calibration settings stored on the printer itself, or on the PC as settings?

Is there a way to initiate calibration under linux with foo2hp?

What can I do to help?

Printer stops working after a while (1 reply)

ansgar — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:22:12 -0400

Hi,

I installed the newest version of foo2zjs for the HP Color LaserJet CP1215 (downloaded from the website) on an Ubuntu 7.10 computer. The driver works, but after a few minutes the printer makes some noise and the warning LED starts blinking. The printer then no longer accepts any print jobs.

After a power cycle, the printer works again, but a bit later the same problem happens again.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Ansgar