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Thanks - driver for Mac OS X (no replies)

ProgHog231 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:57:53 -0400

Hey, just a quick thanks for the good work. I needed to use a Magicolor 2300DL on my company's network, and now am able to print.

BTW, I was not smart enough to read your install.osx file first, so I figured it out myself. I used Darwinports for ghostscript and got the DMG for Foomatic-RIP from http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/foomatic.

Compile went flawlessly. Used CUPS to install and configure. The only bump I hit was that MS PowerPoint ignored the CUPS printing options (e.g. color). Fixed that by changing the options in PowerPoint's print options.

Thanks a bunch.

groff error while compiling latest version [ubuntu; solved; apt-get install groff] (1 reply)

pavneet — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:42:27 -0400

I know that this error has been reported on the debian lists, and is fixed upstream but I just wanted to report it hear as well for version since it hasn't made it down into the Ubuntu distro. This is for compiling foo2zjs version 2010-04-21 on Ubuntu 9.10:

$ make install
.
.
.
groff -t -man foo2zjs-wrapper.1 foo2zjs.1 zjsdecode.1 foo2oak-wrapper.1 foo2oak.1 oakdecode.1 foo2hp2600-wrapper.1 foo2hp.1 foo2xqx-wrapper.1 foo2xqx.1 xqxdecode.1 foo2lava-wrapper.1 foo2lava.1 lavadecode.1 opldecode.1 foo2qpdl-wrapper.1 foo2qpdl.1 qpdldecode.1 foo2slx-wrapper.1 foo2slx.1 slxdecode.1 foo2hiperc-wrapper.1 foo2hiperc.1 hipercdecode.1 foo2zjs-pstops.1 arm2hpdl.1 usb_printerid.1 printer-profile.1 | ps2pdf - manual.pdf

/usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/ps.tmac:689: can't find macro file `europs.tmac'

Is there a recommended workaround? I haven't found it elsewhere, i.e., where to get this mysterious europs.tmac?

Thanks and regards.

print from command line [Windows] (1 reply)

zspoja — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:47:25 -0500

Following you instructions I've successfully installed a HP LaserJet 1020 printer on an Ubuntu 9.10 server and was able to print the test page from within CUPS on the Ubuntu Server.

The printer printer is connected on a MS Windows XP machine on the same network. In /etc/cups/printers.conf printer uri is smb://FINANCIJE/PC03/HPLJ1020

How can I print a plain text file or PCL formated file from the command line on the Ubuntu server. I've tried (without success):

cat test.txt | lpr -o raw -P LJ1020
cat test.txt | lpr -P LJ1020
cat test.pcl | lpr -P LJ1020

Thanks for any help.

Cross-compile? (no replies)

doseas — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:52:41 -0400

Is it possible to cross-compile foo2zjs? I need to install it on a Sparc-based embedded system that doesn't have the resources needed for compiling. I have an x86 development system available with a cross-compiler for the Sparc target.

Any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Thanks!

-David

cc is not installed [EEE] (7 replies)

awr — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:53:43 -0400

I am trying to install foo2zjs on a eee pc for an HP P1005 printer.

I've downloaded & installed the driver software and moved to the foo2zjs directory.

Make returns the following message -

"Error: cc is not installed! .... Install Software Development (gcc) package"

I have installed gcc.

"gcc -v" responds ...gcc version 4.3.2....
"gcc hello.c; ./a.out" responds hello, world = as it should

Does anyone have any clues?

Regards
Arthur ( Linux beginner! )

foo2zjs install failure (No rule to make target `README.in') openSUSE11.2, HPLJ1020 (1 reply)

tmsherred — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:31:53 -0400

I've have openSUSE 11.1 installed on a USB HD (no internet access in Linux, yes in winXP), with a HPLJ-1020 printer.

I downloaded the sihp1020.tar.gz file using Windows, then copied the extracted sihp1020.img file to the USB HD, and booted into Linux. After copying sihp1020.img to /home/tms/foo2zjs, I attempted an install. The install started OK but failed with a "No rule to make target `README.in', needed by `README'" message. See install snippet below:

lin-tms:/home/tms/foo2zjs # su
lin-tms:/home/tms/foo2zjs # make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -c -o foo2zjs.o foo2zjs.c
cc -O2 -Wall -c -o jbig.o jbig.c
:
:
:
chmod -w usb_printerid.1
rm -f printer-profile.1
modtime() { date -d "1/1/1970 utc + `stat -t $1 | cut -f14 -d' '` seconds" "+%a %b %d %T %Y"; }; \
MODpage=`modtime printer-profile.1in`; \
MODver=0.0; \
./includer-man -v DEF1= printer-profile.1in | sed > printer-profile.1 \
-e "s@\${URLOAK}@http://foo2oak.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLZJS}@http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLHP}@http://foo2hp.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLXQX}@http://foo2xqx.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLLAVA}@http://foo2lava.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLQPDL}@http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLSLX}@http://foo2slx.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s@\${URLHC}@http://foo2hiperc.rkkda.com@"; \
-e "s/\${MODpage}/$MODpage/" \
-e "s/\${MODver}/$MODver/"
chmod -w printer-profile.1
make: *** No rule to make target `README.in', needed by `README'. Stop.

I attempted to continue with the installation (i.e., make install, make install-hotplug, make test, Yast2), but Yast didn't see the HP1020 driver. Any suggestions how I can get this to work?

INSTALL-File: add hint for proxy-server (no replies)

Greyhound — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:54:17 -0500

Hi,
First I want to thank the programmers of this driver, who make it possible to use my HP Laserjet 1018 with Ubuntu.
Unfortunately it took a few hours for me to install the driver according to the instructions on http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/INSTALL. The reason why it didn't work was that the http_proxy-variable in my shell was not exported. So "./getweb 1018", which uses the wget command didn't work. I think it would be helpful to add a hint to the INSTALL file to export the proxy server for people who use it

export http_proxy="proxy_url:port"

remove intallation folder (1 reply)

orixilus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:58:21 -0500

Hi,

I downloaded and (successfully) installed foo2zjs for my hp1018 - can I safely remove the installation folder (the folder where I ran "make", "make install", ...)?

thanks

Error GS Not installed - BUT IT IS?! [Mac OSX] (1 reply)

j-town — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:28:26 -0400

I'm trying to get the HP Color LaserJet CP1215 to work on a mac running Tiger 10.4.11

I'm not a techie, but I can follow instructions and type in terminal.

I tried to follow the directions at
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs#Ghostscript_for_Mac_OS_X_10.5.x_.28Leopard.29.2C_Mac_OS_X_10.4.x_.28Tiger.29.2C_and_Mac_OS_X_10.3.x_.28Panther.29 and
http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/
and
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/INSTALL.osx
I installed
The hpijs package
The Foomatic-RIP package
GPL Ghostscript 8.61
xcode and a whole bunch of other things

I installed GPL Ghostscript 8.61 by downloading and installing the dmg (through the desktop interface not terminal) from http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs#Ghostscript_for_Mac_OS_X_10.5.x_.28Leopard.29.2C_Mac_OS_X_10.4.x_.28Tiger.29.2C_and_Mac_OS_X_10.3.x_.28Panther.29
But when I type make I get an error that I don't have Ghostscript

/Desktop/downloads/foo2zjs Charlie$ make
#
# Dependencies...
#
***
*** Error: gs is not installed!
***
*** Install ghostscript (gs) package
***
make: *** [all-test] Error 1

H E L P ! ! ! !

--
Charlie Kalech
Director, J-Town Productions Ltd.
------------------------------------------------
Helping Our Clients Succeed on the Internet Since 1994
------------------------------------------------
POB 10243
Jerusalem Israel
972-2-671-9918 ext. 203

Which kernel version ? (1 reply)

vmirce — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:24:21 -0400

Medical equipment attached to a linux box came with some kind of customized-RedHat9 version to wich I don't have access, passwords and stuff, no console access... Very few kinds of printers are predefined, most of which are not produced any more, and can't be found on the market.
It's runinng on a 2.4.* kernel version, so it would be nice to know: is the present foo2zjs compatible with this kernel ? It's the only issue that bothers me, because i have idea to solve te problem with access restriction, and will share with readers o this forum :
1. I plan to attach this HDD as a slave to a regular machine whit a regular Linux.

2. Copy and gunzip+untar the script to /slavedisc/somedir/with/foo2zjs.

3. Add this lines of a shell script to (for example) /etc/rc.boot, or similar :

######### Begining of example lines ############
cd /somedir/with/foo2zjs
make
make install
make install-hotplug
make whatEverIsNeeded
cd
# Following is to guarantee that these lines will be executed only once :
mv /somedir/with/foo2zjs /someother/foo2zjs/directory
######### End of example lines ############

4.Connect the HDD back to it's original box.

This way the driver will be installed during the boot.So, as i mentioned, it's the kernel 2.4.* compatibility issue that worries me...

The second solution that came up is :
1. Install original Red Hat 9 on some computer
2. Isntall foo2zjs on that one
3. Make a tarball with all the needed files
4. Copy all of these files to the destination disc.
But there is a problem, i dont know which files are nesecery, and where are all of them copied during the install (which goes where) ?

If foo2zjs is not compatible with this kernel, could someone please give me advice how to solve this situation ?
Is there a workng RPM package with foo2zjs for Red Hat 9 ?
Which files go to wich directory during the instalation ?

Error compiling foo2zjs - library incompatible with amd64 [NO 3RD PARTY INSTALLS] (2 replies)

julio — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:03:47 -0400

Hello:

I'm writing from Spain.

I've amd2- 64 bits, ubuntu 8.04 and printer hp1018.

I'm tryng to install foo2zjs but I'm getting follow error:

#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -o foo2zjs foo2zjs.o jbig.o jbig_tab.o
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `jbig.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `jbig_tab.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
collect2: ld devolvió el estado de salida 1
make: *** [foo2zjs] Error 1

Introduce una opcion:
1--HP-1000
2--HP-1005
3--HP-1018
4--HP-1020
3
sihp1018.img

(c) Copyright Hewlett-Packard 2005

Descargando datos............
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -o foo2zjs foo2zjs.o jbig.o jbig_tab.o
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `jbig.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
/usr/bin/ld: i386 architecture of input file `jbig_tab.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output
collect2: ld devolvió el estado de salida 1
make: *** [foo2zjs] Error 1
#
# Hotplug Installation Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#

And printer doesn't work.

Any help would be welcome. Thanks, Julio

Printing using Windows CUPS driver (2 replies)

steve — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:12:59 -0400

I have foo2zjs setup on my cups server, printing from a linux box works fine. However, printing from a windows box using the cups windows drivers results in no output on the printer. The spool file is generated OK and sent to the printer but I get no output. Windows printing to other printers (using the same cups driver) on the cups server works absolutely fine.

The ghostscript version is 8.62 and the printer is a CLP600N.

Has anyone else had issues (or success) with a similar configuration?

Thanks.

Installing foo2zjs without internet access (3 replies)

john.wieler — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:13:35 -0500

Hello all, I'm wondering how to install foo2zjs without having internet access. Here's the scoop:

I'm setting up an HP1018 on an older machine running Xubuntu 7.04. Problem is, the machine is sitting off in the bush in Zambia, they barely have electricity, no phone lines and no internet access. Is there some way of doing the installation without internet access? Any ideas?

Much obliged,

John

Missing dependency operator [FreeBSD - did not read the instructions] (2 replies)

deholt — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:37:50 -0500

I can't wait to learn what stupid mistake I made to cause this...

FreeBSD 6.3-stable, gnome2

Followed foo2zjs download and install instructions carefully. After unpacking and cd to foo2zjs directory, $ make command rolls out a series of complaints reading: "Makefile", line 9: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 11: Need an operator
"Makefile", line 42: Missing dependency operator

and so on, until the process stops with the statement:

make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

I feel like a real shlub not being able to find a fix for this. Can someone give me advice?

Thanks in advance.

error during the script install [Ubuntu 7.10] (4 replies)

FabriceV — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:55:46 -0500

I am new to Linux using ubuntu 7.10... I have a CLP300, but the problem is not related to.

I have first install the driver using the classic "install new printer" from Ubuntu printer panel (Yes I know you said it is wrong, but I did not know you at this time)... I also have installed later the Samsung drivers thinking I risk nothing to try because they are Samsung... Their printed output looked really worse compare to your... Thus, searching internet discover to you... Then I uninstalled the Samsung driver that removed both drivers (those from Ubuntu and Samsung)... Thus, the following problem only occurred after all :

During the fist instructions, no problem, then typing make, I obtain this :

:~/foo2zjs$ make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cc -O2 -Wall -o foo2zjs foo2zjs.o jbig.o jbig_tab.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file foo2zjs: Is a directory
collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d'état d'exécution
make: *** [foo2zjs] Erreur 1

"Merci" :-)

problem with IsCUPS in foo2zjs.c (2 replies)

draeath — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:15:53 -0500

In the latest (as of tonight/morning, december 9th) foo2zjs.c, the following code seems broken on my system. This happens in 32 and 64 bit OpenSuSE (10.2, and 10.3), Debian, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu.

    if (getenv("DEVICE_URL"))
        IsCUPS = 1;

The reason I know it doesn't work, is this is never true (as the output never occurs)

    if (IsCUPS)
        fprintf(stderr, "PAGE: %d %d\n", pageno, Copies);

IsCUPS is initialized as zero, and the only way to make it output page numbering to cups (for me anyways) is to remove the conditionals or initialize IsCUPS to 1.

I have an HP Laserjet 1020.

Am I missing something, or doing something stupid?

Minlota Color PageWorks (1 reply)

sgunn — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:00:11 -0500

I downloaded the foo2zjs driver and followed the instructions however I am not able to successfully print. It is printing garbage -- perhaps raw data I'm not sure. Does anyone know if this will work with my Model and what should I try for correction?

I am running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. Gnome interface.

The printer is connected via LPT1. I checked the Minolta support website and they have the printer listed under legacy but do not have a linux driver avail.

Minolta Color Page Works Configuration Page shows.

Total Memory 4 MB
Firmware Version 1.24 97/04/01
LocalTalk Version = 1.21

Under PCL Menu it says:
Font Source=Internal (I'm not sure if this is correct?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

foo2zjs and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (2 replies)

melliott — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:53:42 -0500

I upgraded my Macs to 10.5 leopard and now I can't print to my LaserJet 1018, the job shows up in the print queue, then disappears apparently successful but nothing comes out of the printer. Has anyone been successful with foo2zjs and Mac OS X 10.5?

filter magic for raw -> postscript (no replies)

loganb — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:46:13 -0400

Hello,

I have cups running on a linux server and printing (mostly) successfully to a Magicolor 2300DL.

I want to get my Mac to print via the linux CUPS server to the printer, but I don't want to compile the foomatic drivers on the Mac as well and would instead like to use the Generic Postscript Driver. The problem is that the Mac then sends the document with type "application/vnd.cups-raw" (in the debug logs from cupsd) which then gets dumped straight to the printer as a bunch of raw text.

I'd like to use some cups-fu to auto-filter that job into type application/postscript so that the normal cups filters can do their thing and translate the job server-side. I tried adding the filter line "application/vnd.cups-raw application/postscript 0 -" but that had no effect; I'm guessing that cups doesn't respect filters on the raw data type? Anyone have any ideas here?

foo2zjs and CUPS page accounting (1 reply)

durval — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:53:01 -0400

Hello folks,

Last week, I noticed that the "jobs" pages on CUPS admin always showed
"Unknown" for the number of pages printed to my HP1018; moreover, I checked
/var/log/cups/page_log and it was empty.

After some investigation, I found that CUPS depends on 'PAGE: n c' lines being
output to stderr by pstops or one of the filters that are called for each page
printed. Also, I found that when there's a PPD file configured for the printer,
and that PPD defines at least 1 filter for it (as is the case with the.PPD files
included with the foo2zjs package), the pstops program does NOT output the
'PAGE: n c' lines, and so the CUPS page accounting can't register the number of
pages being printed. I checked the source for other filters (e.g, rastertohp)
and found that they indeed do output the required 'PAGE: n c' lines.

From the above, I concluded that the problem is caused by foo2zjs not outputting
the 'PAGE: n c' lines to stderr, so I made the following patch to the current
(Thu Jul 12 19:31:54 2007 CDT) source tarball:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[
--- foo2zjs.c.orig 2007-05-07 21:36:55.000000000 -0300
+++ foo2zjs.c 2007-07-15 07:53:23.000000000 -0300
@@ -482,6 +482,9 @@
if (current->len != 20 )
error(1,"wrong BIH length\n");

+ /* output the necessary line for CUPS page accounting to work */
+ fprintf(stderr, "PAGE: %d %d\n", ++pageno, Copies);
+
/* startpage, jbig_bih, jbig_bid, jbig_end, endpage */
w = (((long) current->data[ 4] << 24)
| ((long) current->data[ 5] << 16)
@@ -535,7 +538,7 @@
if ((PageNum & 1) == 0 && EvenPages)
SeekMedia = ftell(EvenPages) - 4;
if (Model == MODEL_2300DL)
- item_uint32_write(ZJI_MINOLTA_PAGE_NUMBER, ++pageno, ofp);
+ item_uint32_write(ZJI_MINOLTA_PAGE_NUMBER, pageno, ofp);
}

void
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-]

I've tested it and now page accounting works perfectly, with no ill
side-effects (at least none that I can detect).

I'm posting that here in the hope that it helps other people with the same
problem, but I offer no guarantees other than the standard "it works for me".

I'm also submitting this patch to foo2zjs's author, if it's OK he will probably
incorporate it on a future version of the program.

Best Regards,
--
Durval Menezes.

PS: for the record, some details of my environment:

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty with all updates applied
CUPS 1.2.8 (Ubuntu package cupsys 1.2.8-0ubuntu8)
Printer: HP Laserjet 1018

LaserJet1018 on Ubuntu - 'couldn't find package build-essential (1 reply)

HenryMcLaughlin1 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:06:22 -0500

Hi

I'm trying to install foo2zjs on Ubuntu 6.10 but am getting stuck as it comes up with 'E: Couldn't find package build-essential'

Any ideas why this might be?

Many thanks

Henry

/bin/sh: ps2pdf: command not found (1 reply)

ernetas — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:06:12 -0400

When I'm trying to compile foo2zjs I am getting this:

CEL1200 foo2zjs $ make
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ernestas/Temp/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ernestas/Temp/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
groff -t -man foo2zjs-wrapper.1 foo2zjs.1 zjsdecode.1 foo2oak-wrapper.1 foo2oak.1 oakdecode.1 foo2hp2600-wrapper.1 foo2hp.1 foo2xqx-wrapper.1 foo2xqx.1 xqxdecode.1 foo2lava-wrapper.1 foo2lava.1 lavadecode.1 foo2qpdl-wrapper.1 foo2qpdl.1 qpdldecode.1 opldecode.1 | ps2pdf - manual.pdf
/bin/sh: ps2pdf: command not found
make: [manual.pdf] Error 127 (ignored)

Where can I get that ps2pdf program?

FreeBSD (no replies)

draeath — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:53:01 -0400

Is this code linux-specific, or should it work with any POSIX-system using Cups and Ghostscript? Specifically I'm hoping this could adapt to FreeBSD.

EDIT: Nevermind, I reread the installation instructions and noticed it explicitly gave instructions for FreeBSD.

Sorry!

Just wanted to say... (2 replies)

draeath — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:57:17 -0400

I just wanted to say THANK YOU for this driver!

I have sent in a small (all I can afford, unfortunatly) donation.

Solution: "error -110 reading printer status" may be a usb problem (no replies)

fridrik — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:03:03 -0400

as reported here
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?9,374

Install on Xubuntu Dapper Drake iMac 266 (no replies)

Snial — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:37:49 -0400

Hi folks,

I managed to get my Samsung Clp-300 installed on Xubuntu Dapper Drake on a 266MHz iMac G3. I took me a bit of work, but it's not too hard.

There are two basic problems with installing on Xubuntu/Dapper Drake.

1. Xubuntu doesn't provide the gome-cups-manager, you just get basic cups stuff like lpadmin and lpinfo.

2. cups is a bit broken on Dapper Drake ( see http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=452459)

I originally followed the basic installation instructions, but they failed 'cos it couldn't see the USB printer and then when I got to the lpadmin command it couldn't copy the ppd file - I had specified the ~/foo2zjs/PPD folder.

This is how I fixed it:

1. The printer needs to be plugged in first - it's then seen as: usb://Samsung/CLP-300 when you type:
$lpinfo -v

2. I uninstalled the printer using the documentation for foomatic:

sudo make uninstall

3. Then I followed the cups uninstall instructions at:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=452459

which are:

sudo foomatic-cleanupdrivers
sudo adduser cupsys shadow
sudo dpkg-reconfigure cupsys

(this last application is interactive, it leads you through many choices, I chose defaults for everything apart from where the interface was specified, I was able to choose USB).

4. Then I followed the foo2qpdl install instructions:

http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/INSTALL

But I didn't try the ubuntu gnome-cups-manager, because xubuntu doesn't use it.

I had noticed that it had inserted .gz versions of the ppd files into /usr/share/cups/model so I figured the ppd's have been put in the right place.

5. I used Applications->System->Users and Groups to see whether I was in the lpadmin group and I was, so that was good.

6. Then I followed the instructions on setting up the Cups printer via http://localhost:631/. That was fairly straightforward. I clicked on 'Administration', then 'Add Printer'. The printer name, description and location stuff are just names and descriptions you make up. The Make and Model: Samsung CLP-300 Foomatic/foo2qpdl was listed in the drop-down on the next page so I didn't have to browse for a .ppd, and the device URI was also listed amongst the options.

7. Then it asked me for my username and password - which it accepted and then it told me the printer had now been installed. Great!

I then setup the printer's configuration: A4, 1up etc and finally made it the default printer. And finally I printed a couple of pages using it!

Great! And then I paid $15 for the software - so I'm one of the handful of IP addresses now :-)

-cheers from Snial @P.

Solution for "Input/output error: GET_DEVICE_ID on '/dev/usblp0'" probs after "usb_printerid" (no replies)

Silas — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:47:42 -0400

Dear all,

I found a solution for this problem for my laserjet 1018. I suppose the same problem also occurs with other printers of the laserjet 10xx series (1000, 1005, 1020).

I posted it the 1018-section. See

http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?9,272

- maybe it is helpful for you.

install (3 replies)

Piotrek21 — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:54:38 -0500

Hi
this is my problem:

lindeb:/home/piotrek/foo2zjs# make install
#
# Dependencies...
#
# ... OK!
#
cd icc2ps; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/piotrek/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
make[1]: Nie nic do roboty w `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/piotrek/foo2zjs/icc2ps'
#
# Installation Dependencies...
#
***
*** Error: foomatic-rip is not installed!
***
*** Install foomatic package(s) for your OS
***
make: *** [install-test] Błąd 1

file not found for 1018 firmware [Solved; Mac OSX] (1 reply)

lotherius — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:16:41 -0500

EDIT: Sorry.... problem discovered. Blame OSX for not including wget.

(When following the install directions for foo2zjs, I get the following error:

getweb: Couldn't download http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/sihp1018.tar.gz

Did it move?)

Add 6-up , 8-up , 16-up etc. to driver (2 replies)

kunalagon — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:08:44 -0500

Is it possible to add more than 4 PAGES PER SHEET in driver foo2zjs ? It is very important for me, to be abble to print more PAGES PER SHIT,more than 4 ?