Printer woes

[Tony Wasson]

On 10/18/05, Robert N. Eaton <moth28 at cox.net> wrote:
> Some months ago I purchased a Konica-Minolta magicolor 2300 DL at Fry's
> (was cheap then, now even cheaper.) No, it isn't on the Linux approved
> list of hardware, but it appears in the CUPS printer database. Its
> drivers appear in foomatic + foo2zjs (the latter written by Rick
> Richardson, specifically for Minolta printers.)
>
> I have tried every way I could think of to install the darned thing,
> without results. When I started to repeat myself I remembered that one
> definition of insanity is when what you are doing doesn't produce the
> desired results, you simply redouble your efforts.
>
> I couldn't seem to install the Minolta as a USB printer, so I attempted
> to install it as a local area network printer. There I was, happily
> following instructions, when I succeeded in hosing most of my print system.

I have used the Magiccolor 2300 DL with Linux in the past. I followed
the instructions on linxprinting.org and got it to work under CUPS
using the foo2zjs filter. It was a pain to make it work the first
time. I suggest turning on all the logging in CUPS, I think some wrong
file permissions foiled me for a while.

Once I got it working, there were some annoying things about it (don't
recall exactly), but it did work.

I was using it over a network to the Jet Direct port (TCP 9100).

Hope this helps!
Tony