Using HP 2600N Printer

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Lerebours, Jose (Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:07:56 -0600):

> filePro 5.0.# + SCO Unix 5.0.6a
>
> Is anybody successfully using HP 2600N Color Printers?
>
> If so, could you please share what must be done?

You mean besides buy a printer that actually has brains in it?

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/18972-236251-236268-15077-f51-446153.html

    Print languages, std.

    Host-based (Uses the processing power and resources of your computer
    to process the print job. No PCL or PostScript.)

> Just came across one of these and it just won't work.
> Tried using 'netcat' and SCO's HP Network Printer
> configuration.
>
> Reading the specs, it says that it does not do PCL nor
> PostScript - that it relies on PC to do the "printing
> control ..." (whatever that means).
>
> HP Help is not much help, specially when you mention
> anything but "windows".  Yours, however, will be
> deeply appreciated.

The printer only knows HP's proprietary print language, and all it can
print is pictures.  This printer is unable to do the simple task of
printing the letter "A".

However:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n

There is a "foo2hp" driver available for Linux.  Whether or not this
will work on a SCO 5 system you'll have to determine for yourself.

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