[Chester LUG] printer driver problem

[J Aguado]

Mark,

it seems that the command you are using is not correct.

Please try
  tar *-xvf *foo2zjs.tar.xz

This will untar and decompress the file in question.
After this you should be able to access all the files and compile the
driver.

I hope this helps.

J.



2014-09-30 17:49 GMT+01:00 mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk <mark_kh at tiscali.co.uk>:

> Hi guys,
>
> Some years ago, in the upper room of the King's Head (I think it was)
> some of you very kindly loaded Ubuntu onto my Asus EEE.  A year ago some
> other
> friends updated it to 12.04 LTS.  However, last week I bought a Dell
> C1765nfw
> LED printer.  I was able to load the supplied driver onto my wife's Windows
> machine, but failed with my own.  (So, at least I can print via my wife's
> machine.)
>
> I found this site http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/and followed the instructions
> to
> install foo2zjs.tar.gz and the icon has appeared in my printer list window.
> However, when I try to print the printer screen shows the error message:
>
> PJL
> Request
> 016-749 Printer
> Data Violation
> Press (tick)
>
> Looking at the
> aforementioned site, I see that the Dell is not supported by
> foo2zjs.tar.gz so
> I went to the link "Coffin's HBPL Version 1 driver".  Unfortunately, when I
> tried to unpack that file in the Terminal screen I got the message:
>
> gzip:
> stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not
> recoverable: exiting now
>
> To be honest, I really don't know what I'm doing.
> Has anyone out there got a Dell and successfully installed a driver?  Is
> there
> a fix that even someone as clueless as I could fix, or will I have to beg
> someone to come and visit me to sort it out?
>
> Thanks
> Mark Kuramoto-Headey
>
> Broughton
>
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