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HP 2600N printing Color

A few weeks back, I was the first person to print in color with that printer. See previous post. Now Some people are complain because they are only able to print in greyscale. This is how I resolved:. Create a new printer called HPColor as Printer name. Modify file /etc/cups/ppd/HPColor.ppd: *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "foo2hp2600-wrapper %A" to *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "foo2hp2600-wrapper -c %A" Good Luck!!!.

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HP2600N bajo linux

Bueno, estos son los pasos que he seguido para instalar la hp2600 dentro de ubuntu

mkdir /var/tmp/hp2600n
cd /var/tmp/hp2600n
wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
cd foo2zjs
make

Aqui te puede fallar, si es asi prueba con aptitude install gcc-3.4

make install

Ahora tienes que ir a Sistema> Administracion> Impresoras y encontraras el modelo para imprimir

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Helping linux printer driver for HP 2600n

Today, I was able to print a complex B&W test page using this driver: foo2hp: a linux printer driver for ZJS protocol (e.g. HP Color LaserJet 2600n)
Even if I was just only the person that test the results on that printer, It feels so good!!!

This is what happends when you buy a printer without double check if is supported by linux. When I bought it, I thought that if that printer uses a network interface, then I would not have any problem to print under linux ( that is a wrong thought).
Searching around, I found out that the official HP project HPLIP had not plans to support this printer in the near future 🙁 .
After a couple of emails the helpfull people at linuxprinting suggested to try Foo2zjs driver

I had contact the maintainer of the driver (Rick Richardson), but he could not be able to help me at that time (he had a stroke). Then I was lost in what to do, Hin-Tak Leung was able to start looking at the driver, when the week before last, Rick came back to scene and start coding and get partial result.

I think that I am the first person in the world to print a complex BW testpage with that printer as Rick does not have that printer, he was sending me file streams for me to test.

Today i am a happy man, Thanks Rick!!