Steps for installing an unsupported printer

Apr 12, '04 08:50:00AM

Contributed by: thorgal

I was looking for an install guide for printers on OS X 10.3, I found a guide by Clint Morgan describing installation of the foo2zjs driver. First I had some problems following his steps so I want to describe what helped me installing my Minolta Magicolor 2300DL printer.

  1. Apple Developer Tools (Jaguar) or Xcode (Panther) - Apple's Developer Site for more information. Can be found on the software-restore-cd

  2. gettext-0.13.0 - required by glib. If you get an error (as I did) that you dont have a C# compiler, use following: ./configure --disable-csharp

  3. pkg-config-0.15 - required by glib

  4. glib-2.2.3 - required by ghostscript

  5. ghostscript-7.07 - required by foo2zjs. jpeg library required: decompress, rename folder to "jpeg" and copy to top folder of ghostscript

  6. ghostscript-font-6.0 - required by ghostscript. NOTE: The fonts are distributed as a separate package and are NOT included with ghostscript itself. Copy files to /usr -> [local/ -> ] share -> ghostscript -> fonts

  7. wget-1.9 - required by foo2zjs. This utility is required by the foo2zjs build process at the time of this writing. It is also used by another foo2zjs utility (getweb) to download ICM color profiles.

  8. foomatic-filters-3.0.0 - required by foo2zjs. Use following command for installation:
    sudo make install CUPS=/usr/libexec/cups CUPS_FILTERS=/usr/libexec/cups/filter
    
  9. foo2zjs.
Setting up the printer works with the CUPS web interface, URL is http://localhost:631. For more information, see foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ ... or download foo2zjs.tar.gz from them, and read INSTALL.osx in foo2zjs package.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

Comments (8)


Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040408170302441