Linux下安装Minolta magicolor 2200/2300/2430 DL, HP LaserJet 1018/1020/1022驱动

foo2zjs:   a linux printer driver for ZjStream protocol
e.g. Minolta magicolor 2200/2300/2430 DL, HP LaserJet 1018/1020/1022

Tarball last modified: Sat Dec 09 12:51:03 2006 CST - ChangeLog

*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Gentoo, or ideainformatica.com!
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

foo2zjs is an open source printer driver for printers that use the Zenographics ZjStream wire protocol for their print data, such as the Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL or Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL. These printers are often erroneously referred to as winprinters or GDI printers. However, Microsoft GDI only mandates the API between an application and the printer driver, not the protocol on the wire between the printer driver and the printer. In fact, ZjStream printers are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol which was developed by Zenographics and licensed by most major printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. ZjStream is just one of many wire protocols that are in use today, such as Postscript, PCL, Epson, etc.

This driver uses Ghostscript to perform all of the heavy lifting (image processing). There are five major components to the foo2zjs printer driver.

• foo2zjs - the page image to protocol conversion engine of the driver.
• foo2zjs-wrapper - a shell script (compatible with foomatic) which runs ghostscript and foo2zjs in a pipeline.
• icc2ps - converts an ICM color profile to a Postscript CRD, which is then fed into Ghostscript before the users Postscript program.
• foomatic-db - foomatic database entries which describe the supported printers and their options so that printer spoolers know how to access the printer using foo2zjs-wrapper.
• zjsdecode - a tool for developers to inspect ZjStreams.

You can read the manual pages for more information.

With the foo2zjs driver, you can print to some Minolta/QMS, HP and possibly other ZjStream printers:

Supported Printer B/W Color Driver Notes Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL Yes Yes foo2zjs This is the printer owned by the author. Minolta/QMS magicolor 2200 DL Yes Yes foo2zjs Tested by Adam Erickson. Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL Yes Yes foo2zjs Tested by Ren Rebe Minolta Color PageWorks/Pro L Yes Yes foo2zjs Tested by tekknogenius. HP LaserJet 1022 Yes No foo2zjs Up to Fedora Core 5 is tested HP LaserJet 1020 Yes No foo2zjs Up to Fedora Core 5 is tested HP LaserJet 1018 Yes No foo2zjs Up to Fedora Core 5 is tested HP LaserJet 1005 Yes No foo2zjs Tested by Brian Batey HP LaserJet 1000 Yes No foo2zjs Tested by Andrew Schretter

These printers are not supported by this driver:

Unsupported Printer Notes HP Color LaserJet 1600/2600n Supported by my foo2hp driver HP LaserJet M1005 MFP Supported by my foo2xqx driver Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL Supported by my foo2lava driver Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300W/2400W 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)

<-- Click here to support the development of this and other printer drivers. Any amount is appreciated. Also desired: Minolta magicolor 2300 DL duplexer, HP LaserJet 1020, HP LaserJet 1018, Minolta magicolor 2300 DL lower paper tray, Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL, Apple Mac mini OS X system.

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 10,000 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).

Before you email me, make sure you have contributed something.

And if you work for Konica Minolta or HP, you should be embarrased for your company. Neither company has ever offered any kind of support for this driver.

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,
and firmware.  Select the model number for your printer:
    $ ./getweb 2430# Get Minolta 2430 DL .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 2300# Get Minolta 2300 DL .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 2200# Get Minolta 2200 DL .ICM files
    $ ./getweb cpwl# Get Minolta Color PageWorks/Pro L .ICM files

    $ ./getweb 1020# Get HP LaserJet 1020 firmware file
    $ ./getweb 1018# Get HP LaserJet 1018 firmware file
    $ ./getweb 1005# Get HP LaserJet 1005 firmware file
    $ ./getweb 1000# Get HP LaserJet 1000 firmware file

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

(Optional) Configure hotplug (USB; HP LJ 1000/1005/1018/1020):
    # make install-hotplugOR$ sudo make install-hotplug

(Optional) If you use CUPS, restart the spooler:
    # make cupsOR$ 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 Core 6 users:

    # system-config-printer

For Mandrake/Manrivia users:

    # printerdrake

For Suse 10.0 users:

    # yast2 printer 

For Ubuntu 5.10/6.06/6.10 users:

    $ sudo gnome-cups-manager 

For a networked Minolta/QMS 2300 DL, I used a Redhat "Queue Type" of "Unix Printer (LPD)", and set the "Server" to the IP address of the printer, and the "Queue" to "lp". For Ubuntu, I used "HP JetDirect" and set "Host:" to the IP address of the printer and "Port:" to 9100.

For low level testing, you can also create a "raw queue", which will accept ZjStream files as-is and send them directly to the printer.

Questions and Support

Click on our forums for questions and support.

Old forums are here.

Color Correction

There are now two methods for color correction available in foo2zjs: the original ICM-based method and Gerhard Fuernkranz and Leif Birkenfeld's CRD-based method. Each method has advantages and disadvantages, which is why both methods are still included.

The original ICM-based method uses the manufacturer-supplied ICM color profiles and converts those to CRD's on the fly. This method is the fastest. However it suffers from two problems. First, the manufacturer profiles are tuned for their Windows driver, not foo2zjs. So the colors aren't great. Second, Ghostscript has serious issues with its dithering (halftoning) alogorithms. With Ghostscript 7.05, the dithering is highly visible and attempting to tune it to be less visibile (with, say, -dDITHERPPI=150) results in areas of color blotches. With Ghostscript 8.00, the dithering results in highly visible banding. The advantages of the ICM method are that its the fastest of the two methods, and it often allows the foo2zjs engine to optimize monochrome output on a color queue to printing just the K plane.

The CRD-based method was tuned for Ghostscript and the foo2zjs engine, and produces better colors. It also uses thresholding to make up for the halftoning issues in Ghostscript. The drawbacks of this method are that it is very slow, it requires Ghostscript 8.14 for best results, and it currently cannot optimize pure monochrome text printed on a color queue to printing just the K plane. It is expected that this latter deficiency will be fixed soon. It is unknown when Ghostscript 8.14 will generally be available in Linux distros.

So, pick your poison.

History

The foo2zjs engine began life as Robert Szalai's pbmtozjs program. It also uses Markus Kuhn's JBIG-KIT compression library (included), and Marti Maria's icc2ps program (included).

The foo2zjs engine was overhauled by Rick Richardson to add color support for the Minolta/QMS 2300DL, add command line options, limit data chunk size to 65536 bytes, and other miscellaneous features. Rick also contributed the zjsdecode program and the foomatic database entries for the Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL.

Gerhard Fuernkranz and Leif Birkenfeld created the CRD-based color correction methods.

Resources

• www.worldlabel.com - Worldlabel.Com: A Brand Name in Laser Labels & Inkjet Labels
• www.linuxprinting.org - Home of foomatic
• ZjStream Reference - Overview of ZjS data format
• freecolormanagement.com - CMS Links
• www.aim-dtp.net/index.htm - Accurate Image Manipulation for Desktop Publishing
• http://www.color.org/ - The International Color Consortium
• web.access.net.au/argyll/color.html - icclib - ICC (.icm) file format I/O library
• Gernot Hoffmann - Color printer test pages
• ICCFactory - Possible source for buying a custom .ICM color profile ($25)
• Dry Creek Photo - Possible source for buying a custom .ICM color profile ($50)
• ColorValet - Possible source for buying a custom .ICM color profile ($100)
• ProfileCity - Possible source for buying a custom .ICM color profile ($100)
• The Digital Dog - Possible source for buying a custom .ICM color profile ($100)
• Printing booklets - ... with PSUTILS -- support for creep (shingling)

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Last modified: Mon Dec 11 04:41:23 2006 CST