I had a look at the HP site, and this printer is supposed to be PCL3 GUI based - see:

http://support.hp.com/gb-en/product/HP-LaserJet-Pro-CP1025nw-Color-Printer/4052955/model/4052971/document/c02467384

Though I could not find any mention of it being PostScript enabled on the HP pages, but sometimes even their descriptions of their own printers falls far short (not the standard they used to be associated with) and gives an incomplete description & specification thesedays.

However, you own the printer, and I feel sure you know what it is capable of, or not, as the case may be.

I am not aware that zjstream is on the current todo list for MorphOS printing, as I have not seen it mentioned.

I bought an older HP 2500 CLJ as that printer has a legacy 36 pin Centronics, also a USB interface, additionally it has an Ethernet card fitted, so I can choose several options to print from, and it works with my Classic Amiga system as well as my MorphOS, Mac & Windows systems, and allows 600 x 600 dpi colour printing which is what you printer seems to offer as well.

Well, is zukow working on printing right now?

The print process would look like:

postscript code -> ghostscript to raster -> raster to zjstream -> zjstream sent to printer.

We have all of this except for the conversion of raster to zjstream.

The source code for foo2zjs is readily available and that is what it does, converts the output of ghostscript (raster) into zjstream.

I listed almost 20 printers supported by this format.

Once I get a job I will post a bounty to port foo2zjs.


[ Edited by bash64 18.02.2015 - 06:59 ]

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How about this?
http://aminet.net/package/driver/print/foo2zjs
I only have a 1525 without ZJ-stream...

Holy crap!
It has already been done!

Thanks!

I will give it a try with Pagestream immediately.

polluks, I see you are the uploader of the file.
did you compile it?

Is there a way to automate it or do I have to print to a file then run this from the CLI?


[ Edited by bash64 18.02.2015 - 11:40 ]

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Yep, I compiled it.
Well, TurboPrint uses the ghostscript executable, maybe you can replace it by a batch file (something like "gs | foo2zjs").

The gs command is defined in the postscript tab. Would I be able to change it there?

That is a great question. If you look at the bounty page I am at the top of the list "Aaron Smith" on the front of the page. It was about a year ago and have never seen a word about it. It is the same number of people on the list as last year. Where is the progress report??

http://haiku-os.org has great weekly reports on the work that is getting done. It would be nice to see some accountability for the money that is getting donated. It also would encourage others to join in and donate as well. Look like lot of money is just in never never land. No communation no donations.



I have not donated again as a result. People want to "see" a report even if its 1 time a month.

I just woke up and am going to spend some lae night hours working on this.
Even I, as impatient as I am, could live with one report per month.
I started out in the computer world as a developer.
I will report back what I find out about automating foo2zjs with TurboPrint.

Well, that screws that. Aminet went down. Shi-ite.

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Can you email that to me?
Aminet is down.

rll@twc.com

ok, Aminet came back up.

Can someone help me with ghostscript?

This produces an on screen blank page:

cat april.ps | gs -q -sDevice=ppm -sOutputFile=- >april.ppm


I am attempting to convert a color postscript file into a ppm.

Not working.
Supposed to go to a file, not put up a viewing window.

btw: I copied gs by itself to a separate folder. perhaps it needs to be run out of its own folder. it is normally in sys:applications/ghostscript. It is version 8.70.


[ Edited by bash64 18.02.2015 - 23:37 ]

Is the command line on the postscript tab in printer preferrences only executed if you print to the PS: assign?

I have changed it to:

Ghostscript:GS -sDEVICE=turboprint -q | Ghostscript:foo2zjs

I'm in Austria now without an access to any Morphos machine. After returning Poland i'll check polluks' port if it is suitable for my printer system. In theory this driver should work outofthebox. The system reads cups-filter key from PPD file and run defined program after converting postscript/image to CUPS image raster code.

I had to fix some items in new SCANdal (1.7) version which will be available in MorphOS 3.8 and after Mos 3.8 relase i'm going to finish printer bounty. I know that the bounty is delayed but life and morphos related things (like further reggae development) are time consuming.

sorry but what is needed on morphos to print, what are the current technologies supported?

hi

Currently three options for a new printers:
- Postscript printer (direct printing or using beta of my print system)
- Printer with PCL5 support (using Turboprint)
- Some samsung printers using SPL languaga using my print system


And i suggest laser pritners. Ink ones has various protocols and rarely works using PCL5 now.

There are some models of printers known that you can buy?

hi

Kyoceras/Triumph-Adler and HP (only those which have PCL5 or postscript support)

I can look in the compatibility list on the website of morphos

thanks

Compatibility list on morphos webpage is copypasted from turboprint documentation and only contain old printers.

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I have an OKI B4350 that works both in PS mode as well as directly via TurboPrint (using some HPLaserJet6 series driver).

here is the info from my PPD file.
where do I put the binaries?
should I change the path to them?

*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.1"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*PCFileName: "FOO2ZJS-.PPD"
*Manufacturer: "HP"
*Product: "(HP LaserJet CP1025nw)"
*cupsVersion: 1.0
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber: 2
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
*%pprRIP: foomatic-rip other
*ModelName: "HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw"
*ShortNickName: "HP Las.Jet Pro, foo2zjs-z3"
*NickName: "HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw Foomatic/foo2zjs-z3 (recommended)"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 550"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 651"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 652"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 653"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 704"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 705"
*PSVersion: "(3010.000) 800"
*LanguageLevel: "3"
*ColorDevice: True
*DefaultColorSpace: RGB
*FileSystem: False
*Throughput: "1"
*LandscapeOrientation: Plus90
*TTRasterizer: Type42
*1284DeviceID: "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet CP1025nw;CMD:ZJS,PJL,ACL;DES:HP LaserJet CP1025nw;DRV:Dfoo2zjs-z3,R1,M0,TF;"

*driverName foo2zjs-z3/foo2zjs-z3: ""
*driverType F/Filter: ""
*driverUrl: "http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/"
*driverObsolete: False


......



*FoomaticIDs: HP-LaserJet_Pro_CP1025nw foo2zjs-z3
*FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "foo2zjs-wrapper -z3 -P -L0 %A"



[ Edited by bash64 19.02.2015 - 12:48 ]

question:
which printer should I choose?
do I need to choose a non-postscript laserjet?
the cp1025nw is a raster printer.

do I need your beta printing system to even do any of this?
i am running mos 3.7 and using the TP interface with netprinter at this point.


[ Edited by bash64 19.02.2015 - 12:52 ]

I have gone back through this discussion and found the links to the beta printer system.
I will give it a try.
Should have read the whole thread before asking too many questions.


Seems that you print to the PRINTER: assign.

Now you're getting the idea