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Q: Installing HP Color Laserjet 1600 drivers

Im not technical by any stretch of the imagination, but through trawling the internet I have managed to get my HP Color Laserjet 1600 printer working in Mavericks 10.9.1.  Given it's not support by HP any more, I thought I would share in case anyone else might find it useful.

 

I'm sure there are better ways to install these things than I have done, but I'm just going to describe what I did - hey it works, so I don't mind!

 

Firstly, install Xcode from the Mac App Store.

 

In a Terminal Window, install Homebrew by copying and pasting the following:

 

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

 

 

Install wget and gnu-sed by copying and pasting the below into a Terminal Window, one line at a time.

 

brew install wget  

 

brew install gnu-sed

 

 

Download and installed Ghostscript, Foomatic RIP and HIPJS for Mac OS X.

 

Enter the following in Terminal

 

wget -O foo2zjs.tar.gz http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz

 

tar zxf foo2zjs.tar.gz

 

cd foo2zjs

 

make

 

./getweb 1600

 

sudo make install

 

sudo make cups

 

cupsctl WebInterface=yes

 

Then, open up a CUPS web interface at: http://localhost:631

 

Then add a printer by clicking on Adding Printers and Classes and then Add Printer.

 

Enter your Mac OS X user name (must be an administrator) and your password.

 

Select the printer and click the submit button.  My printer was connected with a USB cable and was in the list automatically.

 

Enter a name and description and submit the form again.

 

Select HP

 

Select HP Color LaserJet 1600 Foomatic/foo2hp (en)

 

Click on Add Printer

 

Set Color Mode to Color and Bits Per Plane to 1 Bits Per Plane.

 

Submit.

 

Done!

 

All credit to Florian

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Jan 31, 2014 2:59 PM

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  • by superfreezing,

    superfreezing superfreezing Feb 24, 2014 7:46 AM in response to Aticast
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    Feb 24, 2014 7:46 AM in response to Aticast

    Hey, thank you for sharing the infomation. I am facing this issue right now! Just baught the expensive toner while there is not driver support!

     

    I have Xcode stalled, but just got stucke on the 'Terminal Window"...what does it mean? Do you have screenshort for deminstration please?

     

    Sorry my tech language is very poor...

     

    Many thanks!!!!!

  • by superfreezing,

    superfreezing superfreezing Feb 25, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Aticast
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    Feb 25, 2014 8:18 AM in response to Aticast

    Hi Guess what, I have done it!! I figured out everything and it worked very well.

    Oh, there is one thing different, no option for HP1600, so I chosed HP2600 and it works!

     

    Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

  • by Aticast,

    Aticast Aticast Feb 25, 2014 12:16 PM in response to superfreezing
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    Feb 25, 2014 12:16 PM in response to superfreezing

    Great!  Glad it's working for you

  • by Agdas,

    Agdas Agdas Apr 17, 2014 5:23 AM in response to Aticast
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    Apr 17, 2014 5:23 AM in response to Aticast

    Thanks for this post. Worked perfectly for me. Though, after installing Xcode, I had to start Xcode to accept the licence agreement (or similar) before continuing with installing homebrew.

     

    /martin

  • by linit01,

    linit01 linit01 May 26, 2014 10:27 AM in response to Aticast
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    May 26, 2014 10:27 AM in response to Aticast

    Great instructions thanks! 

     

    I am getting an error during any print (test print too) saying:

     

    You need to install software to use this printer. To install the software, choose Software Update from the Apple menu. If the software for your printer isn’t available in Software Update, contact the manufacturer of your printer.

     

    I tried uninstalling the foo2hp drivers (make uninstall) and reinstalled but no luck.

     

    Any suggestions?

     

    OSX: 10.9.3

  • by rap1ds,

    rap1ds rap1ds Jun 1, 2014 6:07 AM in response to Aticast
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    Jun 1, 2014 6:07 AM in response to Aticast

    Thank you very much! This worked well!

     

    There was one additional step I had do to: In order to run the "make" command, I had to install Xcode Command Line Developer Tools.

  • by Rutlet,

    Rutlet Rutlet Jan 31, 2016 3:17 PM in response to superfreezing
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    Jan 31, 2016 3:17 PM in response to superfreezing

    Soooo grateful to you for posting re the hp2600 driver!!

    Tried many other options including the linux workaround but the simple solution totally works!

    I had a feeling one of the other drivers would work and you rescued me with that info from hours of frustration with terminals, which are NOT my comfort zone

    Thanks so much - any yes, there is hope for anyone with a HP laser jet 1600 - mine works perfectly - including colour with my brand new mac book. So far just tried printing via USB - will try wireless next but really just so happy it works at all!