I asked a few days ago about ethernet-to-USB print servers - thanks to Aaron for pointing out the one at Free Geek. It turns out my question was unnecessary, because the laser printer in the storage locker turned out to be an HP2600n, with an ethernet port, not the HP1600 I thought I had bought as a cheaper source of toner cartridges.
That said, unlike my HP2605dn, the HP2600n does not offer Postscript, but is a glorified winprinter using the Zenographics ZjStream protocol. The best driver is the foo2hp at http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ . I compiled and ran it on one of my RHEL5-clone systems. I also upgraded ghostscript to version 8.70 (in /usr/local/bin ) for the best rendering. There was a problem - the PPD file has options for vertically offsetting the CMY colors relative to black, between plus or minus 100 lines, 1/6 of an inch. With my version of foomatic, that works for all nonzero offsets, but it turns an offset of zero into an offset of -100 lines. Replacing something like foomatic in a distro is problematic - if it gets an automatic update, I lose the fix. The easiest thing to do was to hack a new and simplified version of the PPD file. I took out the entire Group describing them, then reconfigured the printer. No offsets - if I need them for some bizarre reason, I can still use the original driver. For more information, see my wiki: http://wiki.keithl.com/index.cgi?foo2hp and the foo2hp forum: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/forum/read.php?5,2446,2455 Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
