Free hp printers software for linux

JASmine is a page accounting system for CUPS. JASmine project is composed of two parts, a CUPS backend and a Web interface.
Data is read from the MySQL database. It manages any printer handled by CUPS. It counts the number of pages in a print job, for various input formats. Syslog is supported.
The Web interface displays user and printer statistics, the most used printers and active users. Multiple CUPS servers are handled by a single database and HTTP server.
It is composed of two parts:
- A Cups backend, written in Perl, that does page accounting to a MySQL database. It is currently not designed for quota enforcement.
- A web interface, written in PHP, to monitor users and printers, and display reports. Data is read from the MySQL database.
Main features:
- Manages any printer handled by Cups
- Counts the number of pages in a print job, for various input formats (PS, PCL*,...)
- Support for Syslog
- The web interface displays user and printer stats, top most used printers and active users...
- Support for multiple Cups servers handled by a single database + http server

Print Plug-In provides a basic printing capability for The GIMP.
The current release supports PostScript, PCL (HP LaserJet and DeskJet), and ESC/P2 (EPSON Stylus Color) printers. The PostScript printer drivers handle PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files if you have them.
Using the Print Plug-In:
The Printer option provides selections for many common printers. Currently the print plug-in supports the following printers:
- PostScript printers
- HP DeskJet 500, 500C, 520, 540C, 600C, 660C, 68xC, 69xC, 850C, 855C, 855Cse, 855Cxi, 870Cse, 870Cxi, 1100C, 1120C, 1200C, and 1600C printers
- HP LaserJet II, III, IIIp, IIIsi, 4, 4L, 4P, 4V, 4Si, 5, 5FS, 5L, 5P, 5SE, 5Si, 6L, 6P printers
- EPSON Stylus Color, Color Pro, Color Pro XL, Color 400, Color 500, Color 600, Color 800, Color 1500, Color 1520, and Color 3000.
The Output Type option controls whether the printed output is in color or B&W (grayscale). This option is silently forced to B&W for grayscale images and B&W-only printers.
The Media Size option controls the size of the output. By default images are printed to fit the page and are automatically rotated to fill the largest area possible.
The Media Type option tells the printer what type of media is being used (Plain, Coated, etc). Not all printers support the media type option.
The Media Source option tells the printer which paper tray to print from. Not all printers support the media source option.
The Resolution option controls the resolution of the output. Not all printers support the resolution option.
The Orientation option controls whether the output is automatically rotated for maximum page coverage (Auto) or set to a specific orientation (Portrait or Landscape).
The Scaling option controls how large the printed image is. The default is to scale to a percentage of the printable area of the page. You can also specify an image resolution in pixels-per-inch (PPI) by clicking on the PPI radio button. The image is centered by default, however you can adjust the position of the image on the page by dragging the preview image.
The Brightness option controls the overall printed image brightness. A brightness of 100 is usually good for most B&W and PostScript printers, while most inkjet printers need a brightness between 100 and 120 for acceptable results.
Printing to a File
If you want to print to a file, select File from the Printer list. A file chooser dialog is displayed when you press the Print button. Warning, when you print to a file any existing file will be silently overwritten by this release of the plug-in!
Layered Images
Like most plug-ins, the print plug-in only reads the image from the active layer. If you want to print a composite of all visible layers you need to merge the layers (CTRL-M) and then print.
Supported Printers/Features
Most of the printer drivers in the print plug-in use the highest supported resolution for a printer, with the following exceptions:
- EPSON Stylus Color 600, 800, 1520, and 3000 - Currently the driver only supports 720 DPI printing in "compatibility" mode. This makes the drivers extremely slow compared to the Windows and Mac drivers. Unfortunately, I cannot provide optimized drivers (nor drivers for 1440x720) because of our NDA with EPSON.
- EPSON Stylus Photo, Photo Ex, Photo 700 - Currently the driver only supports 720 DPI printing in "compatibility" mode. This makes the drivers extremely slow compared to the Windows and Mac drivers, and you dont get the use of the light cyan and magenta inks (again, because of NDA restrictions.)

foo2qpdl is a Linux printer driver for QPDL protocol.
foo2qpdl is an open source printer driver for printers that use the QPDL wire protocol for their print data, such as the Samsung CLP-300 or the Samsung CLP-600. 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, QPDL printers are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol. QPDL is just one of many wire protocols that are in use today, such as Postscript, PCL, Epson, ZjStream, etc.
This driver uses Ghostscript to perform all of the heavy lifting (image processing). There are five major components to the foo2qpdl printer driver.
- foo2qpdl - the page image to protocol conversion engine of the driver.
- foo2qpdl-wrapper - a shell script (compatible with foomatic) which runs ghostscript and foo2qpdl 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 foo2qpdl-wrapper.
- qpdldecode - a tool for developers to inspect QPDL streams.
Installation:
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
Install driver, foomatic XML files, and extra files:
$ su OR $ sudo make install
# make install
(Optional) If you use CUPS, restart the spooler:
# make cups OR $ 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
$ sudo make cups
For a networked Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL, I used a "Queue Type" "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 QPDL files as-is and send them directly to the printer.
Enhancements:
- Samsung CLP-300, Samsung CLP-600, and Samsung CLX-3160 printers are supported.
- Only JBIG (type 0x13) compression is implemented and it is alpha quality.

btfilter is used to send documents to Bluetooth enabled printers or print adapters for printing.

btfilter reads the document from standard input and sends the file to the supplied bluetooth device address. The file must be prepared beforehand - btfilter passes the file transparently to the device.

btfilter can be used indirectly in /etc/printcap - for an example, see my document Bluetooth Printing to HP DeskJet 3845.

Syntax

btfilter [OPTIONS] mac-address [channel]

Options:

-i | < bdaddr >: send file using this device.

Channel defaults to 1 if not given.

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. Common UNIX Printing System has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users.

CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality.

CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers.

A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON, HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.