HP Color Laserjet 2600N; printer recommendation

[Matt Morgan]

I have an HP Color Laserjet 2600N. In a lot of ways it's a great
printer--color, laser, cheap (~$400US), built-in networking. But, as
far as I can tell, it's not at all linux-compatible (unlike other
HP's).

If I try to print directly to it from FC3, I can't. Even when I try to
set up a local Windows computer as a server, the job gets sent to the
printer, but they just die. The printer doesn't even act like it
received anything--no errors, etc. I'm using a driver for the 2550
version of that printer (same results for both PS and HPIJS drivers),
since I can't find anything specifically for the 2600. Usually that
trick works with HP printers.

Any ideas how I can get it working? If not, can anyone recommend a
printer that is:

Color laser
cheap
networked
linux-compatible

outside of that, quality and reliability are more important than speed.

Thanks,
Matt

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Matt Morgan um 17:11:

>  I have an HP Color Laserjet 2600N. In a lot of ways it's a great
>  printer--color, laser, cheap (~$400US), built-in networking. But, as
>  far as I can tell, it's not at all linux-compatible (unlike other
>  HP's). 
It is a "crippled" printer, a GDI one. It does neither know PCL nor
PostScript.
If you use a Windows® host as print server then set up a raw print queue
in Cups and let the Windows® host render the pages with it's driver.

>  Matt 
Alexander


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On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>  Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Matt Morgan um 17:11:
>  
>  > I have an HP Color Laserjet 2600N. In a lot of ways it's a great
>  > printer--color, laser, cheap (~$400US), built-in networking. But, as
>  > far as I can tell, it's not at all linux-compatible (unlike other
>  > HP's).
>  
>  It is a "crippled" printer, a GDI one. It does neither know PCL nor
>  PostScript.
>  If you use a Windows? host as print server then set up a raw print queue
>  in Cups and let the Windows? host render the pages with it's driver.
>  
>  > Matt
>  
>  Alexander 
Not to argue with the above suggestion but does anyone know is HPLIP
at Sourceforge has a driver for the HP Color Laserjet 2600N (as it does
for the HP Color Laserjet 3500 which is not in Fedora 3 or 4)?
We had a power outage so I can't check this for myself.
The HP Color Laserjet 3500 is also not a Postscript printer.

So if HLIP has the 2600N driver you can use the CUPS web interface to
configure printing to it.
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[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "a" == akonstam 
> <akonstam(a)trinity.edu&gt; writes: 
a> Not to argue with the above suggestion but does anyone know is
a> HPLIP at Sourceforge has a driver for the HP Color Laserjet 2600N

It does not, and according to the FAQ it will not.

 - J<

[Matt Morgan]

On 7/31/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists(a)uni-x.org&gt; wrote:
>  Am So, den 31.07.2005 schrieb Matt Morgan um 17:11:
>  
>  > I have an HP Color Laserjet 2600N. In a lot of ways it's a great
>  > printer--color, laser, cheap (~$400US), built-in networking. But, as
>  > far as I can tell, it's not at all linux-compatible (unlike other
>  > HP's).
>  
>  It is a "crippled" printer, a GDI one. It does neither know PCL nor
>  PostScript. 
Well that's irritating. I have never had trouble with HP before.

>  If you use a Windows(r) host as print server then set up a raw print
> queue
>  in Cups and let the Windows(r) host render the pages with it's driver. 
I had trouble with that, too, although I might have just done
something wrong. In the end I decided to switch to an HP 2550 with an
external print server, so I can skip going through the Windows host
(it's a desktop, and I don't want to turn it on every time I print).

Thanks to everyone for the help!

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "MM" == Matt Morgan
> <minxmertzmomo(a)gmail.com&gt; writes: 
MM> Any ideas how I can get it working?

A quick google search seems to suggest that it speaks the Zenographics
protocol like the low end Minolta Magicolor printers.  If so, it's not
a GDI printer but speaks a somewhat standard and public protocol, and
foo2zjs might take care of the protol conversion.  Some massaging
might be required.

http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/

 - J<