Foo2zjs driver for ZjStream protocol

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 or HP LaserJet 1020 or HP LaserJet Pro M12a/M12w or HP LaserJet Pro P1102 or HP LaserJet Pro P1102w or HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw. 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.

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

These printers are not supported by this driver:

Install:

sudo pacman -S foo2zjs-nightly

Configure

Name: Laser_Printer_BW 
(May contain any printable characters except “/”, “#”, and space) 
Description: Printer 
(Human-readable description such as “HP LaserJet with Duplexer”) 
Location: Somewhere 
(Human-readable location such as “Lab 1”) 
Connection: socket://192.168.1.51:9100 
Sharing: Share This Printer 
I still do not probe share it with CUPS 
click Continue 

Make 
Select HP 
click Continue 

Model 
HP LaserJet Pro M12W Foomatic/foo2zjs-z2 (recommended) (en) this appear duplicated… any of the two works 
click Add Printer 

General 
click Set Default Options 

OR

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