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Please read the "INSTALL" file to see how to install this software.
Please read the "INSTALL" file to see how to install this software.
Please read the "INSTALL" file to see how to install this software.
Mac OS X users: also read the "INSTALL-osx.txt" file.
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GENERAL
FOO2ZJS
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foo2zjs converts pbm (B/W) images and 1-bit-per-pixel cmyk images
(both produced by ghostscript) to Zenographics ZJ-stream format. There
is some information about the ZJS format at http://ddk.zeno.com.
With foo2zjs, you can print to some HP and Minolta/QMS ZjStream
printers, such as these:
- Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL B/W and color
- Minolta/QMS 2300 DL B/W and color
- Minolta/QMS 2200 DL B/W and color
- HP LaserJet P2035 B/W
- HP LaserJet M1319 MFP B/W
- HP LaserJet Pro P1606dn B/W
- HP LaserJet Pro P1566 B/W
- HP LaserJet Pro P1102 B/W
- HP LaserJet Pro CP1025nw B/W and color
- HP LaserJet 1022 B/W
- HP LaserJet 1020 B/W
- HP LaserJet 1018 B/W
- HP LaserJet 1005 B/W
- HP LaserJet 1000 B/W
FOO2HP
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foo2hp converts pbm (B/W) images and N-bit-per-pixel cmyk images
(both produced by ghostscript) to Zenographics ZJ-stream format. There
is some information about the ZJS format at http://ddk.zeno.com.
With foo2hp, you can print to some HP ZjStream printers, such as these:
- HP Color LaserJet CP1215 B/W and color
- HP Color LaserJet 1600 B/W and color
- HP Color LaserJet 2600n B/W and color
FOO2LAVA
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foo2lava converts Ghostscript pbmraw, bitcmyk, or pksmraw output for-
mats to monochrome or color LAVAFLOW or OPL streams, for driving the
Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL network color laser printer, the Kon-
ica Minolta magicolor 2480/2480 MF AIO printer, and other Zenographics-
based LAVAFLOW printers.
- Konica Minolta magicolor 2530 DL B/W and color
- Konica Minolta magicolor 2490 MF B/W and color
- Xerox Phaser 6115MFP B/W and color
- Konica Minolta magicolor 2480 MF B/W and color
- Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF B/W and color
- Konica Minolta magicolor 1680MF B/W and color
- Konica Minolta magicolor 1600W B/W and color
FOO2OAK
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foo2oak converts pbm (B/W) images and 1-bit-per-pixel cmyk images
(both produced by ghostscript) to Oak Technology (now Zoran) OAKT
format.
With foo2oak, you can print to the HP LaserJet 1500 and possibly other
OAKT protocol printers, such as these:
- HP LaserJet 1500 B/W and color, but only 1-bit per pixel
- Kyocera KM-2035 B/W
- Kyocera KM-1635 B/W
FOO2QPDL
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foo2qpdl converts Ghostscript pbmraw, bitcmyk, or pksmraw output formats
to monochrome or color QPDL streams, for driving the Samsung CLP-300,
CLX-2160, CLP-600, CLX-3160, CLP-610 and the Xerox Phaser 6110
QPDL printers.
- Samsung CLP-300 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-315 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-325 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-600 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-610 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-2160 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-3160 B/W and color
- Samsung CLP-3175 B/W and color
- Xerox Phaser 6110 B/W and color
- Xerox Phaser 6110MFP B/W and color
FOO2SLX
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foo2slx converts Ghostscript pbmraw, bitcmyk, or pksmraw output formats
to monochrome or color SLX streams, for driving the Lexmark C500 net-
work color laser printer and other SLZ-based printers. The SLX stream
is a variant of ZjStream produced by Software Imaging K.K
- Lexmark C500n B/W and color
FOO2XQX
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foo2xqx converts Ghostscript pbmraw to monochrome XQX streams, for
driving the HP LaserJet M1005 MFP and other XQX-based printers
- HP LaserJet M1005 MFP
- HP LaserJet M1120 MFP
- HP LaserJet P1005
- HP LaserJet P1006
- HP LaserJet P1007
- HP LaserJet P1008
- HP LaserJet P1505/P1505n
- HP LaserJet P2014/P2014n
FOO2HIPERC
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foo2hiperc converts Ghostscript pbmraw, bitcmyk, or pksmraw output for-
mats to monochrome or color HIPERC streams, for driving the Oki C3200,
C3300n, C3400n, C5100n, and the C5500n HIPERC printers.
- Oki C310dn
- Oki C3100n/C3200n
- Oki C3300n/C3400n
- Oki C3530n MFP
- Oki C5100n/C5150n/C5200n
- Oki C5500n/C5600n/C5800n
Please read the manual pages for more details on the program operation.
$ acroread manual.pdf
BUGS AND DEFICIENCIES
- Need to tune the manufacturer-supplied ICM color profiles to match the
characteristics of Ghostscript.
- Need to figure out how to get near-invisible dithering out of Ghostscript
without affecting the colors. With GS 7.05, if you set -dDITHERING=150,
for example, the dithering becomes less visible but you get areas of
color blotches. No way to win.
- Ghostscript 8.0 has worse color dithering compared to 7.05. The symptom
is slanted bands separated by 0.5 to 2mm, at a 30 degree angle.
- Need to support a better input color file format which includes
explicit page boundary indications. The current use of the Ghostscript
"bitcmyk" format precludes having pages of different sizes within a
Postscript stream.
- It is not entirely clear whether the JBIG-KIT compression library
produces compressed data compatible with all implementations of JBIG
in ZjStream printers. It is possible that bugs or subtle
implementation differences might result in incorrect printer behavior.
AUTHORS
The foo2zjs engine program began life as Robert Szalai's 'pbmtozjs'
program. It also uses Markus Kuhn's JBIG-KIT compression library
(included, but available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/),
and Marti Maria's icc2ps program (included, but also available at
http://www.littlecms.com).
The foo2zjs engine was overhauled by Rick Richardson to add color
support for the Minolta/QMS 2300DL, add command line options, limit
data chunk size to 65536 bytes, and other miscellaneous features.
Rick also contributed the zjsdecode program and the foomatic database
entries for the Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL.
The foo2* engine was written entirely from scratch by Rick Richardson.
The latest version of foo2zjs can be found at:
http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com
wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
You can contact the current author at mailto://rick.richardson@comcast.net
I do not read or reply to HTML email or messages sent under an alias.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
If you want to use this program under different license conditions,
then contact the author for an arrangement.
PATENTS
It is possible that certain products which can be built using the jbig
software module might form inventions protected by patent rights in
some countries (e.g., by patents about arithmetic coding algorithms
owned by IBM and AT&T in the USA). Provision of this software by the
author does NOT include any licences for any patents. In those
countries where a patent licence is required for certain applications
of this software module, you will have to obtain such a licence
yourself.
"So, as far as I understand currently (IANAPL), JBIG1 will be free of
known patents in the United States from 2012-04-04 onwards, at the
very latest, and outside the United States, JBIG1 will be patent free
already from 2011-02-25." - Markus Kuhn
