HP color laserjet 2600n printer does not work in RHEL 6

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • HP color laserjet 2600n printer

Issue

  • HP color laserjet 2600n printer was working fine in RHEL 5 using driver provided by HP. However, after plug that printer in a RHEL 6 server and using the same driver the printers is not working properly. I need to do anything different in RHEL 6 to get it working?

Resolution

  • First of all you need to ensure that foomatic, ghostscript and cups packages are updated to the latest version due old versions of these packages can present some problems with that printer. To update these packages run the command:

    # yum update cups
# yum update foomatic
# yum update ghostcript

  • After update the packages, as described in OpenPrinting page it will be necessary to use foo2hp driver to get this printer working properly due only this driver provides support for ZjStream protocol. This is the protocol used for HP Color LaserJet 1600/2600n and HP Color LaserJet CP1215 model.

  • Instructions and details about foo2hp driver can be found on community documentation due this package is not provided or supported by Red Hat. The summary is:

    $ wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ cd foo2zjs
$ make
$ ./getweb 2600n    # Get HP Color LaserJet 2600n .ICM files
$ su
$ make install

Note that this printer driver is not provided by Red Hat and not supported. If you have any problems using this driver or running the steps above please contact printer vendor for further assistance.

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