HP LaserJet 1000 series --- poorest printer on earth

Gnirf · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2002 Posts: 51

Hi,

Long time ago i baught me the Hp LaserJet 1000. It is a really good laserprinter for win---- i thought. As i tried to install it under Gentoo i saw at linux printing that the printers eprom is so small that you have to upload the firmware every start. Ok it is possible to do this under linux i ve seen ... but then i got a problem.
as i tried to install the driver from linuxprinting.org i get the error messag

"driver has not the right format"

Ok ...
Is s.o. out there who can tell me how to install this odd printer under linux ... i dont want to have to switch between super gentoo linux :-)

and win only for printing a few lines
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On the Box was written: "Needs Win98 or better"....So I installed Linux ...

hpox · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

Sorry to be so vague but I'm still not at the point of configuring my printer and didn't keep bookmarks of the sites but it is a Laserjet just like yours. I remember reading that the Laserjet 1000 series was pretty special. You needed to download a 9mb Windows drivers and extract the 200kb driver / firmware from it.

The firmware has to be sent to the printer each time before printing or something like that. Sending it was pretty easy, something like "cat firmware > /dev/printer".