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mattopenstack

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Registered: 2011-08-08

Posts: 4

Fuji Xerox Basic B&W Laser Priner P205B - Any chance?

Just purchased this laser printer without checking driver support, doh!

It seems a relatively new printer  and most google searches related to fuji/linux/drivers bring up older (more industrial heavy weight) models.

http://www.fujixeroxprinters.com.au/en/ … p205b.aspx

I appreciate there is obviously no magic driver, but if I wanted to troubleshoot this myself where would I start?

chancho

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From: Hong Kong

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 114

Re: Fuji Xerox Basic B&W Laser Priner P205B - Any chance?

i also want to buy this printer, anyone know if this printer is supported ?

lvzongting

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Registered: 2011-06-03

Posts: 2

Re: Fuji Xerox Basic B&W Laser Priner P205B - Any chance?

Firstly, I found a project 'a linux printer driver for HBPL protocol'  contains some HBPL printer drivers.

foo2hbpl contains driver of p105b/p205b .

The website is http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/

I tested it in archlinux.

Works very smoothly with cups.

Enjoy it.

Secondly,most FUJI XEROX provide Mac OSX drivers. In this drivers ,PPDs can directly be used in CUPS.
Steps of extraing PPD file as following:

1. Download the Mac OSX drivers from Fuji Xerox's site as name fxdpm255df_z0039m109ml.img
2. $ yaourt -S dmg2img
3. Convert the dmg file into an image:
    $ dmg2img fxdpm255df_z0035m108ml.dmg  m255.img
4. Mount the obtained image:
    # pacman -S hfsprogs
    $ mkdir img
    # mount -t hfsplus -o force m255.img img
5. Use xar (yum install xar) to extract the pkg file:
    $ yaourt -S xar
    $ cp img/FX\ DocuPrint\ M255\ df_z\ Installer.pkg .
    $ mkdir m255 && cd m255
    $ xar -xf ../FX\ DocuPrint\ M255\ df_z\ Installer.pkg
6. Inside the extracted folders, locate and copy the Payload file with the PPDs:
    $ cp 105ppdsm255df.pkg/Payload ../Payload.cpio.gz
7. Gunzip the file and extract the cpio archive:
    $ cd ..
    $ gunzip Payload.cpio.gz
    $ mkdir ppd && cd ppd
    $ cpio -id < ../Payload.cpio
8. Voilà! your PPD files :
    $ cd PPDs/Contents/Resources/
    $ ls

FX DocuPrint M255 df Fax.ppd.gz  FX DocuPrint M255 z Fax.ppd.gz
FX DocuPrint M255 df.ppd.gz      FX DocuPrint M255 z.ppd.gz

9. import  FX DocuPrint M255 df.ppd.gz or FX DocuPrint M255 z.ppd.gz to cups and then printer is OK.

Lastly,I install p205b drivers in this way. I get error like this: /usr/lib/cups/fxhr2ap is not found.

I extra the fxhr2ap like above, the error is still  there.

And, I guess the error cause by this:
$ file fxhr2ap
fxhr2ap: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [ppc: Mach-O ppc executable] [i386: Mach-O i386 executable]

fxhr2ap  cannot run in archlinux.