HP LaserJet 3100 -- Printing from Linux

This is how I did it with Mandrake Linux 8.1

Get Ulrich Schmid's printing program from here.

Get this patch (.txt) that fixes an occasional memory allocation related core dump.

Decompress, patch and make it:

	(0:56) [jk@jack] ~ > cd /usr/local/src/
	(0:56) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src > tar xfz /tmp/lj3100.tar.gz 
	(0:56) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src > cd lj3100
	(0:56) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/lj3100 > patch < /tmp/lj3100_print.patch 
	(0:56) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/lj3100 > make

Copy it to a reasonable place:

	(1:01) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/lj3100 > sudo mkdir /usr/local/lj3100
	(1:01) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/lj3100 > sudo cp lj3100_mux lj3100_print lj3100_status lj3100_echo /usr/local/lj3100/

Get Ghostscript from SourceForge or somewhere else. I used gnu-gs version 6.52.

	(1:08) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src > tar xfz /tmp/ghostscript-6.52.tar.gz
	(1:08) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src > cd ghostscript-6.52

Apply this patch to the ghostscript Makefile.

	(1:10) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > (cd src && patch < /tmp/ghostscript.patch)

Get the JPEG library from ftp.uu.net or a mirror and extract it into the ghostscript tree:

	(1:15) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > tar xfz /tmp/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz 
	(1:15) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > ln -s jpeg-6b jpeg

Make and install ghostscript:

	(1:16) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > ln -s src/unix-gcc.mak ./makefile
	(1:16) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > make
	(1:45) [jk@jack] /usr/local/src/ghostscript-6.52 > sudo make install

Download this boot script and put it into place:

	(1:43) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo cp /tmp/lj3100 /usr/local/lj3100
	(1:43) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lj3100
	(1:43) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /usr/local/lj3100/lj3100 /etc/init.d/lj3100
	(1:45) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc0.d/K62lj3100
	(1:45) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc1.d/K62lj3100
	(1:45) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc2.d/S58lj3100
	(1:46) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc3.d/S58lj3100
	(1:46) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc4.d/S58lj3100
	(1:46) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc5.d/S58lj3100
	(1:47) [jk@jack] ~ > sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/lj3100 /etc/rc6.d/K62lj3100

Configure LPRng printing using printtool:

Go to 'Expert Mode'
Choose 'LPRng' as the Printing system.
Choose 'Add printer', 'Pipe job into a command'
Enter /usr/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -r600 -sDEVICE=lj3100sw -sOutputFile=- - | /usr/local/lj3100/lj3100_print as the command.
Enter a name, description and location information for the printer.
Choose 'Raw printer (No driver)' as the printer model.

Reboot.

Start printing.-)

http://www.kivela.net/jaska/projects/lj3100/

Jaska Kivelä

Last modified: Sat Sep 27 16:26:16 EET DST 2003