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
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
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.
"MM" == Matt Morgan minxmertzmomo@gmail.com 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.
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On 7/31/05, Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org 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!
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