foo2hp(1)

✨ NAME ✨

foo2hp — ok bestie, this is the little icon that takes your Ghostscript pbmraw or bitcmyk format and turns it into a ZJS printer stream. Periodt. 💅

(this page lives in the General Commands Manual, btw 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

foo2hp [options] <pbmraw-file >zjs-file

foo2hp [options] <bitcmyk-file >zjs-file

foo2hp [options] <cups-file >zjs-file

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

foo2hp converts Ghostscript pbmraw, bitcmyk, or cups output formats into monochrome or color ZJS streams. It's giving "driver for the Hewlett-Packard 2600n color laser printer and other Zenographics-based printers." Lowkey iconic, fr fr. 👑

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🎀 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. Your everyday queens, basically. 💅

• -b bits — Bits per plane, if autodetect is being shady and doesn't work (1 or 2). Default is [1].
• -c — Force color mode if autodetect doesn't work.
• -d duplex — Duplex code to send to the printer. Default is [1].
  • 1 — off
  • 2 — long edge
  • 3 — short edge
• -g xpixxypix — Set page dimensions in pixels. Default is [10200x6600].
• -m media — Media code to send to printer. Default is [1]. Here's the whole HPLJ 2600n lineup, no cap:
  • plain — 1
  • preprinted — 514
  • letterhead — 513
  • transparency — 2
  • prepunched — 515
  • labels — 265
  • bond — 260
  • recycled — 516
  • color — 512
  • tough — 276
  • envelope — 267
  • light — 258
  • heavy — 262
  • cardstock — 261
  • lightglossy — 268
  • glossy — 269
  • heavyglossy — 270
  • cover — 277
  • photo — 278
• -p paper — Paper code to send to printer. Default is [1]. Choose your fighter:
  • 1 — letter
  • 9 — A4
  • 5 — legal
  • 11 — A5
  • 7 — executive
  • 13 — B5jis
  • 20 — env #10
  • 27 — env DL
  • 28 — env C5
  • 34 — env B5
  • 37 — env Monarch
• -n copies — Number of copies. Default is [1].
• -r xresxyres — Set device resolution in pixels/inch. Default is [600x600].
• -s source — Source (InputSlot) code to send to printer. Default is [7].
  • 1 — tray 2
  • 2 — tray 1
  • 7 — auto
• -t — Draft mode. Every other pixel is white. Saving that ink, we love a budget queen. 🍓
• -J filename — Filename string to send to printer.
• -U username — Username string to send to printer.

🦋 Printer Tweaking Options 🦋

These are the options used to customize the operation of foo2hp for a particular printer. Glow-up era. ✨

• -u xoffxyoff — Set the offset of the start of the printable region from the upper left corner, in pixels. Default is [0x0].
• -l xoffxyoff — Set the offset of the end of the printable region from the lower right corner, in pixels. Default is [0x0].
• -L mask — Send logical clipping amounts implied by -u/-l in the ZjStream. Default is [3].
  • 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
• -O c,m,y,k — Alignment of CMYK in rows. The default is 0,0,0,0.
• -P — Do not send START_PLANE codes on monochrome output. May be needed by some black and white only printers, such as the HP LaserJet 1000.
• -A — AllIsBlack: convert C=1,M=1,Y=1 to just K=1. Works with bitcmyk input only.
• -B — BlackClears: K=1 forces C,M,Y to 0. Works with bitcmyk input only.
• -X padlen — Add extra zero padding to the end of BID segments. The default is 16 bytes.

🔥 Debugging Options 🔥

These options are used for debugging foo2hp. Detective mode activated. 🔍

• -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. Default is [0].

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Create a black and white ZJS stream:

gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE
    -sPAPERSIZE=letter -r600x600 -sDEVICE=pbmraw
    -sOutputFile=- - < testpage.ps
| foo2hp -r600x600 -g5100x6600 -p1 >testpage.zm

Create a color ZJS stream:

gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE
    -sPAPERSIZE=letter -g5100x6600 -r600x600 -sDEVICE=bitcmyk
    -sOutputFile=- - < testpage.ps
| foo2hp -r600x600 -g5100x6600 -p1 >testpage.zc

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• /usr/bin/foo2hp

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

foo2hp2600-wrapper(1), zjsdecode(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net> http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/

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and that's the whole manual bestie, from the General Commands Manual, mwah 💋 go forth and print, you ate that 🫶✨