HP LaserJet 2600N

[petard]

I'm planning to purchase laser color printer. It seems to that the cheapest of them all is HP 2600N but it also seems that it's not supported under Linux.

Has anybody had any experience with this printer ?

[fsck]

The 2600 isn't supported under linux/cups, and I don't know of any plans to support it. For about the same price, though, you could get a Lexmark c510 which is a great little workhorse, or the Dell 3100cn (rebadged lexmark 1200)

[petard]

Thanks for the reply.

The only problem is that here only with HP youre shure that you'll find toners, drums, specialized service and so on. And the 2600N is the cheapest of them all. There was also HP 2550 which supports PCL 6 and PS3 emulation. 2600N is it's replacement as said by the local HP dealers. And of course I can't find 2550 for sale anywhere.

[fsck]

Well, lexmark are very well supported too, but I see your point. Anyhow, the short answer is "no, the 2600 won't work".
When you say you can't find a 2550, there are a few on ebay, but I don't know about shipping to macedonia...

[sej7278]

i'd stay away from lexmark, i've had a few and they have expensive toner/ink and aren't wonderfully well built (certainly not on a par with hp/epson/canon) and the dell rebadges are worse as they try to lock you into buying supplies from them only.

as far as laserjets go, if it does pcl or postscript then you're good to go, you don't need the specific driver for that model.

i see the 2600n is a gdi host-based piece of crap, i'd stay away from it, weird to see a gdi with network though, usually the network option includes postscript.

[Rorze]

INSTALLATION OF HP2600n DRIVER – foo2zjs (2 May 2008)

HPLIP does not support printer HP 2600n but rkkda does. Go to http://foo2hp.rkkda.com
Installation procedure for Fedora 7 are as follows: (My HP 2600n is connected to NETWORK NOT USB)

AT THE PRINTER:
press buttons: “BB” + “<” + “<” + “BB” + “<” + “BB” (You shd be at network config TCP/IP config)
press buttons: “>” to change from Auto to manual (BB = Blue Button, < = Left Tri-angle Button
change IP Address to 192.168.1.111 (> = Right Tri-angle Button)
SubNet Mask 255.255.255.0 (press BB to accept and Orange X to cancel)
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1 (I choose 111 cos it is at middle range of IP
Address n also easy to remember)

NOTE: your IP address, Gateway etc may be different depand on your router used.......)

At THE COMPUTER with Feroda 7 Linux system, do the following

start with root and root password (use Terminal or Ctrl + Alt + F1)
Data will be load to /root/Desktop (ie cd /root/Desktop before you start downloading)

# wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz (-O capital O not zero)
# tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
# cd foo2zjs
# make uninstall (optional, in case U want to uninstall previous installation)
# yum install gcc (I got an error if go make directly)
# make (if error occur that gcc not install, then install gcc FIRST)
#./getweb 2600n (get .ICM file, it takes a few minutes so wait for it to download)
# make install

Now go back to GNOME (Ctrl+Atl+F7 if you used Ctrl + Alt + F1 previously)
1.Log in as root privilege
2.System / Administration / Printing / Add New Printer
3.Enter Printer Name, Description and Location then FORWARD (I used HP2600n LAN for printer name)
4.Click AppSocket/HP JetDirect, HostName: 192.168.1.111 (or IP Address U used), Port No: 9100
5.choose HP then FORWARD // choose Color LaserJet 2600n
6.Choose Driver: 3-distribution/foo2zjs/HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n.ppd.gz

You should get Device URI: socket://192.168.1.111:9100
Make and Model: HP Color LaserJet 2600n Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended)

then go to Printer Options change Color Mode to “COLOR”

Now U can print a test page.....set default printer, paper size etc.......

[stefan1975]

the 2600n is a really bad printer imho, and not just with linux ... try running it in a citrix environment or any terminal services env for that matter. Even windows vista (x64) hates it. Then again, there is the follow-up model the 2605n which is a *lot* better and just a little more expensive. We have 1 2600n gathering dust and now 3 2605n's running like a charm.

stefan

[rapiddescent]

sorry to revive an old thread, but has anyone else found that their HP color laserjet 2600n has stopped working when they upgraded to Fedora 11 ?

I'm using the foo2zjs cups drivers

[Rorze]

My laptop IBM ThinkPad X60 uses Fedora 11 with 2600n printer. After installing HP2600n Driver - foo2zjs which I posted in this thread, I can send printing job to the printer using wireless or wire LAN. I can even use printer cable which connects my computer to the printer directly. Fedora has tremendously improved and advanced so much.... It can recognise when I changed LAN cable to printer cable. It builds another printer icon automatically.
The installation procedure of foo2zjs is the same as F7. I use NetworkManager which is by default in F11 with Network service disable (also by default in F11)

Point 6 in my post (May 2008) is no longer valid. Use the default driver....

[rapiddescent]

I've figured it out. I have a laptop that I installed 64bit Fedora11 over 32bit fedora 10. When I sent the first page to the printer after setting up 64bit, loads of odd characters came out over the 2600n printer display. I think whats happened is that some 32bit compiled code has been executed in the 64bit environment and buggered the printer. Everything has started working since I reset the printer firmware to its factory defaults.

[melko]

INSTALLATION OF HP2600n DRIVER – foo2zjs (2 May 2008)

HPLIP does not support printer HP 2600n but rkkda does. Go to http://foo2hp.rkkda.com
Installation procedure for Fedora 7 are as follows: (My HP 2600n is connected to NETWORK NOT USB)

AT THE PRINTER:
press buttons: “BB” + “<” + “<” + “BB” + “<” + “BB” (You shd be at network config TCP/IP config)
press buttons: “>” to change from Auto to manual (BB = Blue Button, < = Left Tri-angle Button
change IP Address to 192.168.1.111 (> = Right Tri-angle Button)
SubNet Mask 255.255.255.0 (press BB to accept and Orange X to cancel)
Default Gateway 192.168.1.1 (I choose 111 cos it is at middle range of IP
Address n also easy to remember)

NOTE: your IP address, Gateway etc may be different depand on your router used.......)

At THE COMPUTER with Feroda 7 Linux system, do the following

start with root and root password (use Terminal or Ctrl + Alt + F1)
Data will be load to /root/Desktop (ie cd /root/Desktop before you start downloading)

# wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz (-O capital O not zero)
# tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
# cd foo2zjs
# make uninstall (optional, in case U want to uninstall previous installation)
# yum install gcc (I got an error if go make directly)
# make (if error occur that gcc not install, then install gcc FIRST)
#./getweb 2600n (get .ICM file, it takes a few minutes so wait for it to download)
# make install

Now go back to GNOME (Ctrl+Atl+F7 if you used Ctrl + Alt + F1 previously)
1.Log in as root privilege
2.System / Administration / Printing / Add New Printer
3.Enter Printer Name, Description and Location then FORWARD (I used HP2600n LAN for printer name)
4.Click AppSocket/HP JetDirect, HostName: 192.168.1.111 (or IP Address U used), Port No: 9100
5.choose HP then FORWARD // choose Color LaserJet 2600n
6.Choose Driver: 3-distribution/foo2zjs/HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n.ppd.gz

You should get Device URI: socket://192.168.1.111:9100
Make and Model: HP Color LaserJet 2600n Foomatic/foo2hp (recommended)

then go to Printer Options change Color Mode to “COLOR”

Now U can print a test page.....set default printer, paper size etc.......

Thank You very much.. That is working now. :)