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HP LaserJet 1000 on Mountain Lion

Monday, July 30, 2012

Mac OS X Mountain Lion does not support the HP Laserjet 1000 out of the box. With a little work, it is possible to configure OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard to support the HP Laserjet 1000.

First we will need to install XCode if it is not already installed. XCode is available in the Mac App Store.  After the Xcode is downloaded and installed run it for the first time.  It will do some maintenance work.  When that is done, from the menu bar, choose “Xcode -> Preferences”  From Preferences, choose “Downloads” and select “Command Line Tools” and click on install.  This will install the necessary CLI tools.

Next we will need to install MacPorts. The fastest and easiest way is to use Mac OSX Package Installer. Please follow the project’s detailed installation documentation to get it configured on your system. Once the package installer is done, fire up Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal).

 

From within Terminal, we will need to update MacPorts to the latest release and install a few applications.

$ sudo port -v selfupdate  (Update MacPorts - password required)
$ sudo port install coreutils  (Install coreutils)
$ sudo port install wget  (Install wget)
    $ sudo port install gsed  (Install gsed)

    $ sudo port install ghostscript  (Install ghostscript)

We will now need to download and install Foomatic-RIP . Mac OSX Packages are provided by the Linux Foundation at this link. Additionally, we will need to download and install foo2zjs. From within Terminal, we will download the foo2zjs package, compile, install, and configure foo2zjs.

$ cd ~/Desktop  (Change to your Desktop directory)
$ wget http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/foo2zjs.tar.gz  (Download foo2zjs)
$ tar -xzvpf foo2zjs.tar.gz  (Extract foo2zjs)
$ cd foo2zjs  (Change into the newly extraced foo2zjs directory)
$ make  (compile foo2zjs)
$ ./getweb 1000  (Download HP LaserJet 1000 firmware file)
$ sudo make install  (Install foo2zjs)
$ sudo make install-hotplug  (configure hotplug)

Now we’re ready to add the printer via System Preferences, but do not close Terminal just yet. Click on the Apple icon on the menu and choose System Preferences -> Print and Scan and click on the “+” Then choose the “HP LaserJet 1000″ and it should automatically load the HP Laserjet 1000 Footmatic/foo2zjs under Print Using. Click on “Add” to add the printer.

We’re almost done. Just need to do a little bit more from Terminal.

$ sudo lp -oraw /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1000.dl  (upload the firmware to the printer

After issuing the last command, the printer will make a sound as if is starting up and the printer is all ready for printing.

(These instructions should also work for the HP Laserjet 1005, HP Laserjet 1018, and HP Laserjet 1020 by changing “1000″ to the matching model of your printer in the getweb and sudo lp -oraw /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1000.dl section of the instructions. Original documentation for installing foo2zjs for Mac OSX is here.)

 

 

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42,000 Pounds

Monday, May 7, 2012

By far one of the more productive shifts at the San Francisco Food Bank this past week.  Together with a crew from XL Insurance (as part of their Global Day of Giving) and Salesforce.com, we packaged approximately about 42,000 pounds of food.  Not bad for 3 hours of work.

 

 

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SFFB: Tubettini

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I am getting to be pretty good at packing food at the San Francisco Food Bank.  This week’s assignment was to pack bulk whole wheat tubettini into 1lb packages.  I was able to accurately pack very close to 1lb of tubettini into individual bags without weighing it.  The lady from Genesys, who had a group of volunteers that day, was quite amazed at how accurate I was.  I guess practice does make perfect.

 

 

 

 

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SFFB: Packing Cake Mix

Friday, April 6, 2012

There was quite the turnout of volunteers at the San Francisco Food Bank this week.  I was only a handful of volunteers who signed up individually, but there was a huge turnout of volunteers who signed up as a group from Mission High School and San Francisco State University.  Every single one of the repacking stations was filled and we were able to re-package all the cake mixes well before our shift was up.  Of course there is always more to do, so we ended up re-packaging rice as well.  All together we repackaged bulk 50lb cake mixes and 100lb rice into 5000 1lb packages for redistribution to the various pantries in San Francisco.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TIL: San Bartolomé de la Torre

Friday, March 30, 2012

Today I learned that San Bartolomé de la Torre is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, Spain.   According to the 2008 census, the municipality had a population of 3446 inhabitants.

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TIL: Tidings of mapgie

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Today I learned that a group of magpies is called tidings of magpies.  Much like a school of fish, a murder of crows, a dissimulation of birds, or a mischief of mice.  The English language is so diverse.  You can find more fun collective noun names at Fun With Words.

 

I also learned that magpies (喜鹊 Xǐquè) play a significant role in 七夕节 (Qīxì jié) which is celebrated on July 7.

 

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TIL: Lewis Carroll was only a pen name

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Today I learned that Lewis Carroll was the pen name for Charles Dodgson.

 

 

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Packaging Pasta

Monday, March 12, 2012

I volunteered at the San Francisco Food Bank again over the weekend.  The assigned project this time around was not very physically demanding.  We had to repackage bulk bags of pasta into one pound bags.  The process was somewhat slow and the group was only able to package about 1000 bags during the 3 hour shift.

 

 

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SFFB Assembly Line

Monday, March 5, 2012

Over the weekend, I volunteered to help out at the San Francisco Food Bank again.  Since I’ve been there before, I was not offered the grand tour and got assigned to a project immediately.  I was assigned to box up Mandarin oranges again, exactly like last week.

Mandarin oranges

 

Looks pretty daunting doesn’t it.  In actuality, it really isn’t.  When you have a group of dedicated people working on it like we did last weekend, it can get done quickly.  Our group processed a lot more than this last week in 3 hours.

Soon after I started on the Mandarin oranges, I was told that there was an urgent project for the morning and I got reassigned to working on an assembly line to box up food for the elderly.

Crates of canned and box food

 

Assembly line at San Francisco Food Bank

In just under 3 hours, we packaged up over 49,000 pounds of food into 1400+ boxes.  Not bad for a group of people who had never done it before.

 

 

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TIL: Random Wikipedia Page

Friday, March 2, 2012

Today I learned that there is a page on Wikipedia that will direct you to a random article.  This is great for anyone who wants to serendipitously learn something new.

My first serendipitous education is on Near vs. Minnesota, a United States Supreme Court decision that recognized the freedom of the press..

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