foo2hbpl1-wrapper(1)

okay so bestie, this is foo2hbpl1-wrapper(1) from the General Commands Manual, and we’re about to make printer-stream conversion make sense 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

foo2hbpl1-wrapper — Convert Postscript into a ZJS printer stream 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

foo2hbpl1-wrapper [options] [ps-file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

foo2hbpl1-wrapper is a Foomatic compatible printer wrapper for the foo2hbpl1 printer driver. This script reads a Postscript ps-file or standard input and converts it to Zenographics ZjStream printer format for driving the Dell 1250c, Dell C1660w, Dell C1760w, Epson AcuLaser C1700, and Fuji-Xerox CP105b printers. 🖨️✨

This script can be used in a standalone fashion, but it is intended to be called from a printer spooler system which uses the Foomatic printer database. 🫶

💅 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS 💅

🌸 Normal Options 🌸

These are the options used to select the parameters of a print job that are usually controlled on a per job basis. 🎀

• -c — Print in color 💖 (else monochrome).
• -C colormode — Color correction mode, default [0].
  • 10 — ICM color profile (using -G *.icm file) 🌈
• -d duplex — Duplex code to send to printer, default [1].
  • 1 — off
  • 2 — long edge
  • 3 — short edge
• -m media — Media code to send to printer, default [1]. HBPL mapping:
  • plain — 1
  • bond — 2
  • lwcard — 3
  • lwgcard — 4
  • labels — 5
  • envelope — 6
  • recycled — 7
  • plain2 — 8
  • bond2 — 9
  • lwcard2 — 10
  • lwgcard2 — 11
  • recycled2 — 12
• -p paper — Paper size code to send to printer, default [1]. HBPL mapping:
  • A4 — 1
  • B5jis — 2
  • letter — 4
  • executive — 5
  • fanfold german legal — 6
  • folio — 6
  • legal — 7
  • env#10 — 9
  • envMonarch — 10
  • envC5 — 11
  • envDL — 12
• -n copies — Number of copies, default [1].
• -r xresxyres — Set device resolution in pixels/inch, default [1200x600].
• -s source — Source (Input Slot) code to send to printer, default [7].
  • 1 — upper
  • 4 — manual
  • 2 — lower
  • 7 — auto
• -t — Draft mode. Every other pixel is white. 👀
• -T density — Print density (1-5). The default is 3 (medium).
• -2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -8, -9, -10, -12, -14, -15, -16, -18 — Print in N-up. Requires the psutils package.
• -o orient — Orientation used for N-up.
  • Portrait — -op (normal)
  • Landscape — -ol (rotated 90 degrees anticlockwise)
  • Seascape — -os (rotated 90 degrees clockwise)

🦋 Printer Tweaking Options 🦋

These are the options used to customize the operation of foo2hbpl1 for a particular printer. 🛠️

• -u xoffxyoff — Set the offset of the start of the printable region from the upper left corner, in pixels [varies with paper size]. The defaults should work on the 2200DL and 2300DL, and have not been tested on any other printers.
• -l xoffxyoff — Set the offset of the end of the printable region from the lower right corner, in pixels [varies with paper size]. The defaults should work on the 2200DL and 2300DL, and have not been tested on any other printers.
• -L mask — Send the logical clipping values from -u/-l in the ZjStream. foo2hbpl1-wrapper always runs Ghostscript with the ideal page dimensions, so that the scale of the image is correct, regardless whether or not the printer has unprintable regions. This option is used to move the position of the clipped image back to where it belongs on the page. The default is to send the amount which was clipped by -u and -l, and should be good in most cases.
  • 0 — don't send any logical clipping amounts
  • 1 — only send Y clipping amount
  • 2 — only send X clipping amount
  • 3 — send both X and Y clipping amounts
• -P — Do not send START_PLANE codes on monochrome output. May be needed by some monochrome-only printers, such as the HP LaserJet 1000.
• -X padlen — Add extra zero padding to the end of BID segments. The default is 16 bytes. Padding 16 bytes of zeroes is needed for older ZjStream printers, such as the Minolta 2200DL and HP LaserJet 1000, and seems harmless to newer ones, such as the Minolta 2300DL. So the default should be good for all cases.

🎀 Color Tweaking Options 🎀

These are the options used to control the quality of color output. Color correction is currently a WORK IN PROGRESS. 💀✨

Color correction is currently a WORK IN PROGRESS — bestie, do not expect final-girl perfection here 💀✨

• -g gsopts — Additional options to pass to Ghostscript, such as -g“-dDITHERPPI=nnn”, etc. This option may appear more than once.
• -G profile.icm — Convert profile.icm to a Postscript color rendering dictionary (CRD) using foo2zjs-icc2ps and adjust the printer colors by using the Postscript setcolorrendering operator. (WORK IN PROGRESS).
• -G gamma-file.ps — Prepend gamma-file.ps to the Postscript input to perform color correction using the setcolortransfer Postscript operator. For example, the file might contain:

{0.333 exp} {0.333 exp} {0.333 exp} {0.333 exp} setcolortransfer

• -I intent — Select profile intent from the ICM file. 0=Perceptual, 1=Colorimetric, 2=Saturation, 3=Absolute. Default is 0 (perceptual).

🧚 Debugging Options 🧚

These options are used for debugging foo2hbpl1 and its wrapper. 🔍

• -S plane — Output just a single color plane from a color print and print it on the black plane. The default is to output all color planes.
  • 1 — Cyan
  • 2 — Magenta
  • 3 — Yellow
  • 4 — Black
• -D level — Set Debug level [0].

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

Create a monochrome ZjStream from a Postscript document, examine it, and then print it using a RAW print queue:

foo2hbpl1-wrapper testpage.ps > testpage.prn
hbpl1decode < testpage.prn
lpr -P raw testpage.prn

Create a color ZjStream stream from a Postscript document:

foo2hbpl1-wrapper -c testpage.ps > testpage.prn

📁 FILES 📁

• /usr/bin/foo2hbpl1-wrapper — that’s the script, bestie 📁✨

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

foo2hbpl1(1), hbpldecode(1) 👑💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>

http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/

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Cute sign-off, bestie: this page is foo2hbpl1-wrapper(1) from the General Commands Manual; no separate source/version/date line is printed in this copy, so we’re not inventing one — just sending you off with all the printer-wrapper lore and maximum sparkle 🫶💖✨