I recently added a second color printer. 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 SL5 systems. I also upgraded ghostscript to version 8.70 (in /usr/local/bin ) for the best rendering.
There was a problem - the foo2hp 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 the SL5 version of foomatic, that works for all nonzero offsets, but it turns an offset of zero into an offset of -100 lines. The same code and PPD does work on Ubuntu Hardy - the difference seems to be foomatic. Replacing foomatic in SL5 is problematic - if it gets an automatic update, I lose the fix. I may want other features of the upgrade, if there is a security fix, for instance. The easiest thing to do was to hack a new and simplified version of the PPD file. I took out the entire Group describing the offsets, then reconfigured the printer. If I need offsets 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
