Dell3000cn Setup

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Setup a Dell 3000cn Printer

Under Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Leopard)

Background

The Dell 3000cn colour laser printer is an older model in Dell's Small Business printer line. It does not have native driver support under Mac OS X, only under MS Windows. As such installing and using this printer under Mac OS X (Leopard)is non-trivial.

HOWTO

First, install the Foomatic and Generic postscript packages from

 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

The packages for Mac OS X are located here:

 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/foomatic

Download and install the current Foomatic-RIP and Ghostscript disk images, as of 11 December 2008 these were:

 foomatic-rip-2008-01-30.dmg

and

 gplgs-8.61-ub.dmg

IMPORTANT: In the Dell3000cn interface, set the printer PCL setting to “color” which translates to “colour” for those of you English speaking folks not living in the US:

Now set up a new printer on the Mac:

 System Preferences | Print & Fax
 Add a new printer

Select add, then share the printer (if desired). Select Options & Supplies

• under General, note that the URL for the printer is

 socket://192.168.100.3/?bidi

This is incorrect and should be

 socket://192.168.100.3:9100

This can't be corrected here, but can be fixed in the Print & Fax interface.

• Under Driver, confirm that the selected driver is

 HP Color LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS

Note that this is the Color LaserJet.

Here's the trick: for the printer to actually work properly use the CUPS web interface to finish setting the proper printer configurations.

Open CUPS by browsing to

 http://localhost:631/

the printer that was just set up will be shown under the Printers tab:

Select “Modify Printer” and continue to the “Device” screen and select Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) then continue to the “Device URI” screen and set it as follows:

Continue to the next screen, ensuring that the correct driver is still selected:

Select “Modify Printer” (enter a userid and password with root privileges if asked) and then check the “Printer Options” to ensure the the Output Mode is set to Color.

Head back to the main Printers tab in the CUPS interface and select “Print Test Page” and verify that the output is in colour and scaled correctly.

-- dave 04:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Under Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop (Karmic Koala)

This actually quite easy, the only trick is finding the correct driver. Given that the Dell 3000cn is on the network and configured correctly, simply:

• At the desktop, select System | Administration | Printing to open the Printer Configuration window.
• Select Server | New | Printer and the New Printer window will open.
• Find the Dell 3000cn under "Network Printers", select it and click on Forward.
• In the Choose Driver window, select Dell.
• There are two possible choices that jump out, the 3010cn driver and the 3100cn driver. It turns out that the correct choice is the "Dell 3100cn Foomatic/pxlcolor [en]". Select that one.
• Print a test page to see that it works.

Easy.