HP LaserJet 1600 on a mac
HP doesn’t make a printer driver for their 1600 laserjet. It’s quite sad. If you need to use that printer with your mac here’s what you can do. I found the info online and put it into practice myself. It works.
In summary here’s what you need to do.
It’s not exactly perfect and the color looks awful… but it works.
All of the information can be found at,
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/O…MacOSX/foo2zjs
In summary
You’ll need to download:
http://www.openprinting.org/download…zjs-1.1-UB.dmg
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/…3.2.15.ppc.dmg
and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g…c.dmg?download
I started by running the installer for ghostscript, then the installer called foomatic-RIP.dmg.
Lastly I ran the installer foo2zjs. When it finished a terminal window opened and I ran through the instructions listed there. I chose the option for the 1600 and then pressed enter.
Once all three installers have been ran open up print utility from system utilities. The printer should show up and choose the foomatic driver on it’s own. Once the printer is installed you’ll have b&w printing.
To enable the icky color go to this web address. http://localhost:631/
choose the printers tab
choose set printer options
under color mode choose color over monochrome.
Now color printing should work from your HP Color Laserjet 1600. Good luck!
Hi
I tried doing this but my printer still wont do color… what should i do?
Heidi
Comment by Heidi Tenefrancia-Dy — April 14, 2008 @ 3:43 am
I think it may depend on what OS you’re using but I’m pretty sure this should work with Leopard or Tiger.
Try opening up safari and going to this as a webpage http://localhost:631/ that should take you to something called.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.5
From there find the “Manage Printers” button.
Then you’ll see the 1600 printer and you can choose set printer options.
There should be an option for color mode and you can choose color from the drop down menu.
Comment by admin — April 14, 2008 @ 3:53 pm