Configuring CUPS for the Minolta 2200

Under construction

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.