foo2hiperc:   a linux printer driver for HIPERC protocol
e.g. Oki C3100n, C3200n, Oki C3300n, Oki C3400n, Oki C5100n, Oki C5150n, Oki C5200n, Oki C5500n, Oki C5600n, Oki C5800n

Tarball last modified: Tue Aug 17 10:25:37 2010 CDT - ChangeLog

Alpha Quality
Uncompressed Mode ONLY, 4MB per page (mono), 16MB per page (color)

*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from:
     Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or BSD!
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

foo2hiperc is an open source printer driver for printers that use the HIPERC wire protocol for their print data, such as the Oki C3400n and the Oki C5500n.

This driver uses Ghostscript to perform all of the heavy lifting (image processing). There are five major components to the foo2hiperc printer driver.

You can read the manual pages for more information.

With the foo2hiperc driver, you can print to some Oki and possibly other HIPERC printers:

Supported Printer B/W Color DriverNotes
Oki C3100n / C3200n Yes Yes foo2hiperc not compressed
Oki C3300n / C3400n Yes Yes foo2hiperc not compressed
Oki C3530n MFP Yes Yes foo2hiperc not compressed; PRINT ONLY
Oki C5100n / C5150n / C5200n Yes Yes foo2hiperc not compressed
Oki C5500n / C5600n / C5650n / C5800n Yes Yes foo2hiperc not compressed

These printers are not supported by this driver:

Unsupported Printer Notes
HP LaserJet Pro P1102/P1102w Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro P1566 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro P1606dn Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet P2035 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet 1018/1020/1022 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet 1000/1005 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet M1319 MFP Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet P1005/P1006/P1007/P1008 Supported by my foo2xqx driver
HP LaserJet P1505/P2014 Supported by my foo2xqx driver
HP LaserJet M1005/M1120 MFP Supported by my foo2xqx driver
Minolta-QMS magicolor 2200/2300 DL Supported by my foo2zjs driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Supported by my foo2hp driver
HP Color LaserJet 1600/2600n Supported by my foo2hp driver
HP Color LaserJet 2605dn Unsupported. Use Postscript
Konica Minolta magicolor 2480/2490 MF Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 1680MF/1690MF Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W Supported by my foo2lava driver
Oki C110 Supported by my foo2lava driver
Xerox Phaser 6121MFP Supported by my foo2lava driver
Samsung CLP-300/310/315/600/610/620 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Samsung CLX-2160/3160/3175 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Xerox Phaser 6110 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Lexmark C500n Supported by my foo2slx driver
HP Color LaserJet 1500 Supported by my foo2oak driver
Kyocera KM-1635/KM-2035 Supported by my foo2oak driver
Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300W/2400W/2500W Try the m2300w driver
Minolta/QMS PagePro 12xxW Try Beetman's 1200W driver or Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver
Minolta/QMS PagePro 13xxW Try Beetman's 1200W driver or Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver
Konica Minolta PagePro 14xxW Try Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver

Contribute (MUST READ)

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foo2zjs is open source software that is downloaded over the internet. No media (CD) will be shipped in exchange for your donation.

I keep a record of everyone who has contributed to this driver, in terms of 1) money or equipment, 2) usable bug reports, 3) code and advice.

There are over 208,765 unique IP addresses that have downloaded this driver. There are only a handful of people who have ever contributed to this project (and my thanks go out to them).

Download and Install

Click the link, or cut and paste the whole command line below to download the driver. 

    $ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz

Now unpack it: 

Unpack:
    $ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
    $ cd foo2zjs

Now compile and install it. The INSTALL file contains more detailed instructions; please read it now. 

Compile:
    $ make

Get extra files from the web, such as .ICM profiles for color correction.
Select the model number for your printer:
    $ ./getweb 3100	# Get Oki C3100n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 3200	# Get Oki C3200n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 3300	# Get Oki C3300n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 3400	# Get Oki C3400n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 3530	# Get Oki C3530n MFP .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 5100	# Get Oki C5100n / C5150n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 5200	# Get Oki C5200n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 5500	# Get Oki C5500n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 5600	# Get Oki C5600n .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 5800	# Get Oki C5800n .ICM files

Install driver, foomatic XML files, and extra files:
    $ su			OR	$ sudo make install
    # make install

(Optional) If you use CUPS, restart the spooler:
    # make cups			OR	$ sudo make cups

Now create printer entries for your spooler. Create at least one queue for monochrome, and another queue for color printing. Create the queues first, then edit them and set the device options as desired. See your operating system documentation for further details on creating a printer queue. Click any hyperlinks below for sample screenshots.

For Redhat 7.2/7.3/8.0/9.0 and Fedora Core 1-5 users: 
    # printconf-gui
For Fedora 6/7/.../13, and Ubuntu 7.10/8.x/9.x/10.x users: 
    # system-config-printer
For Mandrake/Manrivia users: 
    # printerdrake
For SUSE 10.x/11.x users: 
    # yast2 printer
For Ubuntu 5.10/6.06/6.10/7.04 users: 
    $ sudo gnome-cups-manager
    $ sudo make cups             # IMPORTANT: gnome-cups-manager has a BUG in it

For a networked Oki C3400n, use a "Queue Type" "HP JetDirect" and set "Host:" to the IP address of the printer and "Port:" to 9100.

Questions and Support

If you installed as per the above instructions, then click on our forums for questions and support.

If you installed a THIRD PARTY (e.g. Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.) foo2zjs package, then read the INSTALL file and follow the directions. No third party support is given. You MUST install using the above procedure.

Color Correction

This driver uses uncorrected or imperfect colors. Please read "CUSTOM ICC/ICM COLOR PRINTER PROFILE" in the INSTALL file.

History

It uses Markus Kuhn's JBIG-KIT compression library (included), and Marti Maria's icc2ps program (included).

Resources

Last modified: Tue Jun 22 07:37:19 2010 CDT .