foo2lava:   a linux printer driver for LAVAFLOW protocol
e.g. Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W, magicolor 2530 DL, magicolor 1690MF, magicolor 2490 MF, magicolor 4690MF

Tarball last modified: Tue Aug 17 10:25:37 2010 CDT - ChangeLog

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     Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or BSD!
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

foo2lava is an open source printer driver for printers that use the Zenographics LAVAFLOW wire protocol for their print data, such as the Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W or the Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL or the Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF or the Konica Minolta magicolor 2490 MFor the Konica Minolta magicolor 4690 MF. 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, LAVAFLOW printers are raster printers which happen to use a very efficient wire protocol which was developed by Zenographics and licensed by most major printer manufacturers for at least some of their product lines. LAVAFLOW 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 six major components to the foo2lava printer driver.

You can read the manual pages for more information.

With the foo2lava driver, you can print to some Konica Minolta, Xerox, and possibly other LAVAFLOW printers:

Supported Printer B/W Color DriverNotes
Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Tested by Kent Seaton and the author
Konica Minolta magicolor 2490 MF Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Tested by Adam Oellermann; PRINTER ONLY!
Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Tested by author
Konica Minolta magicolor 1680MF Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!
Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!
Konica Minolta magicolor 2480 MF Yes Yes foo2lava/OPL Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!
Konica Minolta magicolor 4690MF Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!
Oki C110 Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Tested by ripeamado
Xerox Phaser 6115MFP Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!
Xerox Phaser 6121MFP Yes Yes foo2lava/LAVAFLOW Alpha quality; PRINTER ONLY!

These printers are not supported by this driver:

Unsupported Printer Notes
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
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
Samsung CLP-300/310/315/600/610/620 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Samsung CLX-2160/3160/3175 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Xerox Phaser 6110 Supported by my foo2qpdl driver
Lexmark C500n Supported by my foo2slx 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
HP Color LaserJet 1500 Supported by my foo2oak driver
Kyocera KM-1635/KM-2035 Supported by my foo2oak 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

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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 208,765 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,
and firmware.  Select the model number for your printer:
    $ ./getweb 1600w	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 1680	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 1680MF .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 1690	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 2480	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 2480 MF .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 2490	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 2490 MF .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 2530	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 4690	# Get Konica Minolta magicolor 4690MF .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 110	# Get Oki C110 .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 6115	# Get Xerox Phaser 6115MFP .ICM files
    $ ./getweb 6121	# Get Xerox Phaser 6121MFP .ICM files

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 6/7/.../13, and Ubuntu 7.10/8.x/9.x/10.x users: 
    # system-config-printer
For Mandrake/Manrivia users: 
    # printerdrake
For SUSE 10.x/11.x users: 
    # yast2 printer
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 Solaris 11+, OpenSolaris, Solaris Express Developer 9/07+ users: 
    # printmgr

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 LAVAFLOW 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.

Color Correction

The original ICM-based method uses the manufacturer-supplied ICM color profiles and converts those to CRD's on the fly. It requires Well Tempored Screening, e.g. ghostscript 8.54 or better.

History

It uses Markus Kuhn's JBIG-KIT compression library (included), and Marti Maria's icc2ps program (included).

Resources

Last modified: Tue Aug 17 10:28:30 2010 CDT .