foo2oak:   a linux printer driver for OAKT protocol
e.g. HP Color LaserJet 1500, Kyocera KM-1635/KM-2035

Tarball last modified: Sat Dec 02 14:33:35 2017 CST sha1sum: 4ca843761c87ce82850f9ccef4c05cd93663742f - ChangeLog

Reports from users (as of 04/11/04) are that this driver works in monochrome and in 1-bit color.

*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from:
     Arch, BSD, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, MacOSX, Mandrake/Manrivia, RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, or Xandros!
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

foo2oak is a printer driver for printers that use the Oak Technology (now Zoran) OAKT protocol for their print data, such as the HP Color LaserJet 1500, Kyocera KM-1635 and the Kyocera KM-2035. 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, OAKT printers are raster printers which happen to use a fairly efficient wire protocol which was developed by Oak Technology and licensed by some printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. OAKT 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 foo2oak printer driver.

You can read the manual pages for more information.

With the foo2oak driver, you can print to some HP and possibly other OAKT protocol printers:

Printer B/W
1-bit		 B/W
2-bit		 Color
1-bit		 Color
2-bit		 DriverNotes
HP Color LaserJet 1500 Yes ? Yes ? foo2oak ALPHA QUALITY
Kyocera KM-1635 Yes No No No foo2oak ALPHA QUALITY
Kyocera KM-2035 Yes No No No foo2oak ALPHA QUALITY

These printers are not supported by this driver:

Unsupported Printer Notes
HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro M12a/M12w Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro P1102/P1102w Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro P1566 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet Pro P1606dn Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet P2035 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet 1018/1020/1022 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet 1000/1005 Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet M1319 MFP Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP LaserJet P1005/P1006/P1007/P1008 Supported by my foo2xqx driver
HP LaserJet P1505/P2014 Supported by my foo2xqx driver
HP LaserJet M1005/M1120 MFP Supported by my foo2xqx driver
HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf MFP Supported by my foo2xqx driver
Minolta-QMS magicolor 2200/2300 DL Supported by my foo2zjs driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL Supported by my foo2zjs driver
HP Color LaserJet CP1215 Supported by my foo2hp driver
HP Color LaserJet 1600/2600n Supported by my foo2hp driver
HP Color LaserJet 2605dn Unsupported. Use Postscript
Konica Minolta magicolor 2480/2490 MF Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 1680MF/1690MF Supported by my foo2lava driver
Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W Supported by my foo2lava driver
Oki C110 Supported by my foo2lava driver
Xerox Phaser 6121MFP Supported by my foo2lava driver
Samsung CLP-300/310/315/325/360/365/600/610/620 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Samsung CLX-2160/3160/3175/3185 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Xerox Phaser 6110 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Lexmark C500n Supported by my foo2slx driver
Oki C301dn/C310dn Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Oki C511dn Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Oki C810 Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Oki C3100n/C3200n/C3300/C3400n Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Oki C5100n/C5200n Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Oki C5500n/C5600n/C5650n/C5800n Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Olivetti d-Color P160W Supported by my foo2hiperc driver
Dell 1355 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Epson AcuLaser CX17NF Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Epson AcuLaser M1400 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Fuji Xerox DocuPrint CM205 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Fuji Xerox DocuPrint M215 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Fuji Xerox DocuPrint P205 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Xerox Phaser 3010/3040 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Xerox WorkCentre 3045 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Xerox WorkCentre 6015 Supported by my foo2hbpl driver
Ricoh SP 112 Supported by my foo2ddst driver
Ricoh SP 201 Supported by my foo2ddst driver
Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300W/2400W/2500W Try the m2300w driver
Minolta/QMS PagePro 12xxW Try Beetman's 1200W driver or Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver
Minolta/QMS PagePro 13xxW Try Beetman's 1200W driver or Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver
Konica Minolta PagePro 14xxW Try Schiller's 1[234]xxW driver

Contribute (MUST READ)

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Any amount is appreciated.
foo2zjs is open source software that is downloaded over the internet. No media (CD) will be shipped in exchange for your donation.

I keep a record of everyone who has contributed to this driver, in terms of 1) money or equipment, 2) usable bug reports, 3) code and advice.

There are over 501,481 unique IP addresses that have downloaded this driver. There are only a handful of people who have ever contributed to this project (and my thanks go out to them).

Download and Install

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

Get extra files from the web, such as .ICM profiles for color correction.
Select the model number for your printer:
    $ ./getweb 1500	# Get HP Color LaserJet 1500 .ICM files

Install driver, foomatic XML files, and extra files:
    $ su
    # make install

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.

For Redhat 7.2/7.3/8.0/9.0 and Fedora Core 1-5 users: 
    # printconf-gui
For Fedora 6/7/.../25, and Ubuntu 7.10/8.x/.../16.x users: 
    $ system-config-printer
For Mandrake/Manrivia users: 
    # printerdrake
For Suse 10.x/11.x users: 
    # yast
For Ubuntu 5.10/6.06/6.10/7.04 users: 
    $ sudo gnome-cups-manager
    $ sudo make cups             # IMPORTANT: gnome-cups-manager has a BUG in it
For Debian 3.x, 4.x, and other systems that use CUPS http://localhost:631 
    $ firefox http://localhost:631
Command line using CUPS: 
    # lpadmin -p "NAME" -v "URI" -E -P /usr/share/cups/model/file.ppd.gz
    # lpadmin -d "NAME"				# Set the default

For low level testing, you could also create a "raw queue", which will accept OAKT files as-is and send them directly to the printer.

Questions and Support

If you installed as per the above instructions, then click on our forums for questions and support.

If you installed a THIRD PARTY (e.g. Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.) foo2zjs package, then read the INSTALL file and follow the directions. No third party support is given. You MUST install using the above procedure.

Bugs And Deficiencies

Resources

Mac OSX:

Miscellaneous:

Last modified: Mon Apr 24 08:56:48 2017 CST .