Getting a Dell 3000cn working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
My mother has switched from a Windows PC to an iMac running OS X Snow Leopard. As a member of her IT support staff :) I'm helping her get it set up. One of the challenges is getting a few decade-old peripherals to work with this shiny new iMac. This post deals with the Dell 3000cn laser printer.
Here is the quick recipe that will result in functionality for color and black & white printing, albeit very slow printing.
1. Download and install Foomatic-RIP (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosxfoomatic#.C2.A0Foomatic-RIP_for_Mac_OS_X)
2. Download and install Ghostscript, also found at the link in step 1.
3. Download and install the PPD for the HP Color LaserJet 5000. You will find that at (http://www.openprinting.org/driver/pxlcolor).
That page has a drop down menu to select the driver you want to generate and download.
Choose "HP Color Laserjet 5000" and press "Generate PPD File."
Place the downloaded file in the following directory:
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ directory
4. In System Preferences | Print & Fax, press + (under Printers) to add a printer.
5. Select your Dell 3000cn printer as the printer.
6. In the "Print Using" drop down, choose "Select Printer Software..." which will provide a list of available drivers. Scroll down and select "HP Color Laserjet 5000 Foomatic/pxlcolor"
You can now print to the printer in color or black & white. It is abysmally slow, but is functional.
Thanks to the folks who posted to the following discussion thread on Sourceforge. I've simply consolidated information from that thread in a few succinct steps.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/forums/forum/4359/topic/1183504)
Next peripherals for me to install are an Epson PicutreMate and HP Scanner.
Here is the quick recipe that will result in functionality for color and black & white printing, albeit very slow printing.
1. Download and install Foomatic-RIP (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosxfoomatic#.C2.A0Foomatic-RIP_for_Mac_OS_X)
2. Download and install Ghostscript, also found at the link in step 1.
3. Download and install the PPD for the HP Color LaserJet 5000. You will find that at (http://www.openprinting.org/driver/pxlcolor).
That page has a drop down menu to select the driver you want to generate and download.
Choose "HP Color Laserjet 5000" and press "Generate PPD File."
Place the downloaded file in the following directory:
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ directory
4. In System Preferences | Print & Fax, press + (under Printers) to add a printer.
5. Select your Dell 3000cn printer as the printer.
6. In the "Print Using" drop down, choose "Select Printer Software..." which will provide a list of available drivers. Scroll down and select "HP Color Laserjet 5000 Foomatic/pxlcolor"
You can now print to the printer in color or black & white. It is abysmally slow, but is functional.
Thanks to the folks who posted to the following discussion thread on Sourceforge. I've simply consolidated information from that thread in a few succinct steps.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/forums/forum/4359/topic/1183504)
Next peripherals for me to install are an Epson PicutreMate and HP Scanner.