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Configuring CUPS for the Minolta 2200

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We have a Minolta Magicolor 2200 at work and, though I rarely print anything, I still need to be able to from time to time. That catch is, my desktop box is Gentoo Linux and Minolta doesn't feel the need to play nice with Linux. I found these docs that walk you through most of the setup.

Installation

Before we get started we need a few apps. cups and foomatic are available in portage.

emerge cups
emerge foomatic

foo2zjs need to be installed seperately. See the foo2zjs web site for more details.

$ wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ tar -zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz
$ cd foo2zjs
$ make
$ ./getweb 2200

I had problems with getweb. When I tried most recently (2004-09-17) I was unable to connect to ftp.minolta-qms.com.

Now, as root, copy the PPD files to /usr/share/cups/model/ and restart cups.

$ sudo make install
$ sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Configure CUPS

The CUPS web admin is at http://localhost:631/ (or the host of your print server).

• Admin
  • Add Printer
    • Name: magicolor
    • URI: socket://x.x.x.x:35
    • Make: Minolta
    • Model: Magicolor 2200 ...

  I had to make the printer the default from the command line because, for some odd reason, there was no button to make the printer the default in the web interface.

  lpadmin -d magicolor
  

  Restart CUPS.