This is min12xxw, a filter to convert pbmraw data such as produced by
ghostscript to the printer language of Minolta 1[234]xx W printers.

It is based on an initial driver by Adam Bocim <beetman@seznam.cz>.
Support for the newer 13xxW and 1400W models is not tested by me because
I do not have such a printer. However, I have had reports confirming that
it also works increasingly well.

Building and installing:

This should be as simple as

	./configure
	make
	make install
	make clean

Binaries go to /usr/local/bin, manpages to /usr/local/man. This can be
changed with options to configure (see INSTALL and/or ./configure --help).


Comments:

I do not add comments about how to integrate this driver into your printing
system. I am sure there are a lot of people who can do this a lot better
than I can (this is because I use somewhat antiquated software). If you
think you can, put it onto the net or send me a copy for inclusion. I am
not going to support this actively, because I haven't got the time or
energy to do so. Maintaining the filter might prove enough work.

However, the people at www.linuxprinting.org have produced .ppd files for
this driver, so making this beast work should be quite easy for all recent
Linux distributions.

For usage instructions, see the manpage. In case of problems, please have a
look at the FAQ which should answer some of the most frequently asked
questions. License is in the file COPYING (it is GPL - stay relaxed...). If
you want to understand the format in which data is sent to the printer, see
the file format.txt and the sources.

The build process builds an additional program, esc-m, which is also installed.
Its main purpose was to ease viewing the output of the windoof driver during
developent. It is still included because it might help to find problems.
Also, if you can read the output for another printer with this tool and the
output makes at least some sense, this might mean that the printer can be
driven by this filter. I noticed support for PagePro 13xxW would be possible
using this approach.

I've had reports by people using min12xxw on at least the following machines
and under the following operating systems:

	- Linux (x86, amd64, ppc)
	- FreeBSD (x86, amd64)
	- OS X (ppc)
	- NetBSD (sparc64)
	- Solaris (sparc64)

This list is probably not complete, and the order in which the items are
mentioned does not mean that the author prefers a certain platfrom or
operating system. If you use min12xxw on a platform that is not listed
here, please drop me an e-mail so I can include the information here.


Thanks:

I'd also like to give thanks to a few other people:

Initial suggestions for reading some information from the printer came
from Bruno Sch�dlbauer <bruno.schoedlbauer@gmx.de>, who also pointed me
to a nice USB sniffer by Beno�t Papillault for Windoof 98 and up, see
http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop. (This little program may prove
very helpful on similar occasions. Happy USB sniffing...)

David Hamilton <dhamilto@angel.homeip.net> has helped a lot in testing and
developing the support for the PagePro 1350W. His patience when testing
things out was enormous. He really deserves a big THANKS.

Krishnaprasad encouraged me to support the PagePro 1400W and helped testing
the new code.


Happy printing!

Manuel Schiller (mala@hinterbergen.de)

The following message was sent to www.linuxprinting.org Minolta forum
by Marc Cerisier. He describes the steps he needed to perform on his
system to get hin Minolta PagePro 1350W to work. Because I haven't got
MacOS X on any computer, I can't test it and give instructions on how
to get things going, Marc has kindly given me permission to include his
post here, so others can use it as a starting point. The steps you may
have to perform need not neccessarily match his' in all details, but the
general outline should be similar.
Anyway, I hope this bit of information is helpful...

Manuel

[Original message follows:]
From: cerisier@mc.edu (Marc Cerisier)
Newsgroups: linuxprinting.minolta.general
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 17:03:17 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
To: minolta-list@linuxprinting.org
Subject: [lp.minolta] Instructions for installing a PagePro 1350W on Mac OS X

These instructions are the fruit of my own struggle to install this printer on
my mother's Mini Mac.  Hope they help.	I sure wish these were available before
I started.

-Marc Cerisier


To install a Minolta PagePro 1350W on Mac OS 10.3.8:

1)  PREPARE THE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

If you've never installed the development tools (Xcode), install them as you
will need the compiler(gcc).  The version of autoconf and automake are not
current enough for the min12xxw driver, though, so you need to compile new
versions of those packages.  Here are the links:

www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
www.gnu.org/software/automake/

You need to build the new autoconf before automake.

The build process is similar for both, and will also be the same for min12xxw:

tar zxf <downloaded file>
cd <new directory>
/configure
make
make install

In both instances, the new files are installed into /usr/local/bin/, which
isn't in the path by default, so first, add it to the path
(PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"), and then rename all of the files in /usr/bin/
that have new versions in /usr/local/bin/.  As soon as you type 'make install',
you will see which files were created by that build, and those are the ones
that need to be renamed.  If you don't rename them(or delete them), the build
process for minn12xxw will see the old versions before the new ones of the same
name since /usr/bin/ occurs before /usr/local/bin/ in the path.

2)  BUILD MIN12XXW

Get the driver here:

http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala/min12xxw/

Using the build process outlined in the above step, this should happen without
flaw.  The driver will be installed to /usr/local/bin/.

You also need to get the PPD file for the printer.  Do so here:

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=min12xxw

Place the PPD in this folder:

/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj

3)  INSTALL PRINTER

First, restart the CUPS system with this command - 'killall -HUP cupsd'.  Next
open the Printer Setup Utility (in /Applications/Utilities).  Since the os
cannot directly recognize the driver, you have add the printer with the
advanced option.  Do this by holding down the option key, and clicking Add in
the Printer Setup Utility.  When the new widow opens, select Advanced from the
very first popup menu (the one that selects the connection method).  In the
Device popup menu, look for your printer--should be at the bottom of the menu.
When you select your printer (mine was called PP1350W), the Device Name &
Device URI fields are filled in for you.  On the Printer Model popup menu,
select Minolta, and when you do so, the PPD you installed should appear below.
Be sure it's selected, and click add.

Your printer should now work!  By substituting another PPD, these instructions
should work for the other printers that use this driver.
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