USB (DOT4) Printers & OS4.1 **Testing in Progress**

@Troels

I have two colorlasers: HP LaserJet 2600n and a Brother HL-4040CN, Both costs in Denmark around ?300.
The LaserJet2600 is a good candidate.

The important thing to check is if the printer comes with toner cartridges when you buy it (often only half full).

Everytime I change catridges in my printes (once a month) I pay more for the cartridges than I paid for the printer!

But we must be sure that the support DOT4

@bitman
I was just wondering if anyone could suggest a cheap dot4 printer and a quick explanation of what dot 4 is and which companies that uses it.

@Troels

see this link:

http://driver.wareseeker.com/free-dot4/

I think, not involved directly on this thread (because just have an old printer) but DOT4 seemed to be the all in one printer/scanner/card reader,... we could found actually on our local supermarket.

I let user with better knowledge than me maybe add more comments for this point.


EDIT: Monday mroning:

http://download.wareseeker.com/dot4/

Same site but more complete DOT4 printer list (for informations)

@Mrodfr

They aren't just the all-in-ones, my LJ1015 (NB: not the CM1015) is a standard laser printer and it is Dot4. What we need is the name of a current model which is (a) cheap and (b) known to be Dot4.

@all

The bounty is created:

http://amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=48

Maybe the best is to know from RWO what printer he could baught near his location (new or second hand or maybe if someone want to give one for him and paid the postage) and surely the money will be given by some AOS4 user here.

Like that, he could test and make the driver.

See my links about ideas of DOT4 printer.

@Mrodfr

As a new comer here im not sure how it works with regard to bountys. I will of course make a donation to the fund when we know what we are looking at money wise. Having just ordered a sam, reliable printer support will of course be extreamly useful.

@Mrodfr

It might be useful to put this in a thread on amigaworld.net if it has not been done already.

@Amiga1200Mark

Hello and welcome here.

A bounty have been opened to help RWO to found a DOT4 printer (new or second hand) for developping a DOT4 driver for AOS4.

The usefull thing we now need is to have a RWO news about what printer he have choosen (from his supermarket or second hand one) and the cost.

He baught the printer and take the money on the bounty as a refund.

After we all do that for other hardware but of course if someone near his home have a free DOT4 printer, It's even better. Finally all is possible.

The best is to see RWO posting here

honestly, I'm not real involved for this driver myself because printing at job (rarely) but It's a kind of general idea. For example, in case he need some webcams for specific raw/bulk drivers for AOS4, I will be pleased to give some money for supporting webcam transfret protocol.

@Mrodfr

well yes I suggested the bounty and it's up but ultimately rwo has to be assigned to it..

i have PM'ed him so hopefully we can get a response soon

btw, printers I need to work with my Sam via USB are:

- HP LaserJet 1012
- HP LaserJet 2600n

@328gts

HP LaserJet 2600n aswell for me.

@328gts

Quote:

You might have problems with that, they aren't fully PCL compatible (hence why I bought the slightly-more-expensive 1015, well that and the fact there was absolutely no USB printer support on OS4 at the time)

I got hold of a HP psc 1110 printer that Windows claims to be a Dot4 but sadly the usb info says diffrently.

The good news is I have revived my dead A1 Harddisk where my old sources is, including my work on a dot4 driver.

RWO

@328gts

Bounty is not open yet. When you submit a bounty it is a suggestion until the amigabounty team approves it.

@RWO
Is there a cheap DOT4 printer available on the Danish market?

@Troels

Hard to say, first you need to know if it really is a Dot4 printer as the info on the net usely do not say that.

RWO

@rwo

Yeah that's typical. When you finally need the technical details you can't get them

@rwo

You could write a small OS4.x tool that checks if a printer uses dot4, and the users here could run it and check if somebody has a dot4 printer.

@Troels

Most laserprinters (color) for the purporse are around ?300 - ?350 in DK.

Brother has a few printers in the range ?85 - ?130 -but I'm not sure if they are DOT4

Buying it second hand is often a bad idea unless toner cartridges are FULL!

@rwo

How do you check if it's a DOT-4 printer? I have a HP and a Brother I could check,.

@bitman

Well you can try to open usbprinter.device..

go into Printer Prefs and select usbprinter.device unit 0

If it fails open (thats good in this case) you need to look at t:usb.log and see if there is mention of 1284.4 in the there.

RWO

@rwo

Nothing really happems to usb.log. Plugged in the LaserJet 2600n and selected the usbprinter.device - no changes to the log. Tried my third printer HP pcs2510 - again, no changes to the log:

I: [22:25:04] USB stack | | ==========
I: [22:25:04] USB stack | | USB System Software Task started
I: [22:25:04] USB stack | | Starting HCDs...
I: [22:25:04] USB stack | | ...HCDs started.
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FF8FC80 is {Vendor: 0x0000, Product: 0x0000, Class: 09.00}
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FF8FE60 is {Vendor: 0x0000, Product: 0x0000, Class: 09.00}
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FF8FC80 initialized
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FF8FE60 initialized
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device found on hub port 1.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device found on hub port 1.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | Hub port | Device at port 1 is low-speed.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | Hub port | Device at port 1 is low-speed.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device on hub port 1 succesfully added.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device on hub port 1 succesfully added.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Driver Running
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device found on hub port 2.
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF70B0 is {Vendor: 0x3C41, Product: 0x0032, Class: 00.00}
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF7010 is {Vendor: 0x3C41, Product: 0x0320, Class: 00.00}
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF70B0 initialized
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF7010 initialized
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | Hub port | Device at port 2 is full-speed.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Device on hub port 2 succesfully added.
I: [22:25:04] hub.usbfd | HUB | Driver Running
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF7290 is {Vendor: 0xF003, Product: 0x172E, Class: 00.00}
I: [22:25:04] USB Fkt Init | Init Fkt | Fkt 0x5FDF7290 initialized
I: [22:25:04] USB FD fkt start | Sys_EndInitialAttachmentPhase | Initial USB Attachment Phase terminated
I: [22:25:04] USB stack Process | | USB System Software Process started.
I: [22:25:04] USB stack Process | | Info logging disabled
E: [22:25:04] hid.usbfd | HID driver | Interface binding failed. Error -11