HP 1600 and eCS 2.2 Beta?

[BigGoofyGuy]

I have a netbook with eCS 2.2 beta on it. I connected my HP 1600 color laser jet on it. It seems to see it but does not print anything. I want to print something that is really needed.

[Doug Bissett]

eCUPS might work, but see: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/color_laserjet/hp_color_laserjet_1600.html. It is a Linux page, but eCUPS is a Linux port, so the information should relate to your device.

For eCUPS see: http://trac.netlabs.org/ecups.

[Paul Smedley]

eCUPS might work, but see: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/color_laserjet/hp_color_laserjet_1600.html. It is a Linux page, but eCUPS is a Linux port, so the information should relate to your device.

For eCUPS see: http://trac.netlabs.org/ecups.

It will NOT work with CUPS. From that page:
"Driver Plugin Information:
This printer REQUIRES a downloadable driver plug-in. Use hp-setup to install the printer, and to download and install the plug-in. In general, required driver plugins are required for printing support. Driver plug-ins are released under a proprietary (non-open) license and are not part of the HPLIP tarball release."

[Dave Yeo]

Wonder how hard it would be to make these binary blobs work on OS/2? I guess it depends if they only interact with cups or if they have a kernel module. XFree could load Linux video drivers and use them with the Elf loader

[Alex Taylor]

According to this it should work with the foo2hp package: http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/

You could try with Paul's port of foo2qpdl (available on the eCups site) which includes foo2hp.

[BigGoofyGuy]

Thank you for the help. It is appreciated. 

[Alex Taylor]

Thank you for the help. It is appreciated. 

Did you have any luck, then?

[BigGoofyGuy]

Having to move, the printer was too big and bulky to take with me.