Kodak Hero Multifunction Printers

Hi There!

Dan Bashur here from Low End Mac..

I'd really love to get my Kodak Hero 9.1 going on MacOS Mojave and later.
If you need a copy of the old driver to reverse engineer some things, I'd
be happy to provide it.  The one thing that I can tell you is that the
Kodak All in One software partially broke in High Sierra and completely
broke in Mojave and later.  You can't run the installer at all in Mojave
and later (might be a 32-bit only "outer wrapper" for the package), but all
of the critical packages will execute individually. In High Sierra the
installer itself actually still executes and lets you apply the driver
(MacOS pulls down the XCode Command Line tools to let the installer execute
in High Sierra as well as the individual packages in Mojave/Catalina if
that gives you any hints).

Oddly enough, you can't print to the printer directly once you install
everything in High Sierra and apply the driver, but it will let you print
when another fully supported Mac is on the same network (example - one
running Snow Leopard) with the drivers installed via printer sharing.
There has to be some kind of bug in the way the printer handshakes on the
network in High Sierra that causes the Kodak All in One software to
partially malfunction despite the driver being there and the printer being
detected.

In Mojave/Catalina one of the packages bundled in the installer does not
work at all and could be a critical one.  Will have to verify exactly which
one failed.

At any rate, if a Gutenprint Driver can fix these issues (especially in
Mojave/Catalina), that would be wonderful! I can live without some of the
multifunction features as you can go straight to the machine to fax as
needed or scan documents straight to an attached thumb drive and can use
the sharing mechanism in High Sierra as a workaround.  It's a pity Kodak
shuttered it's printing business so fast and later drivers and some further
updates were not made to the Kodak All in One software.  These Heros
(especially the feature rich 9.1) were high quality machines.  I've owned
mine for 13 years and only had to replace one print head.  Otherwise
flawless and extremely economical!

Thanks for all your hard work on Gutenprint/GIMP Print over the years.  If
you have a donate button, I'd be happy to contribute if you can get this
working for my Kodak Hero 9.1.  I could also write a nice article on Low
End Mac for you to remind our community that Gutenprint is out there still
to help keep these orphaned printers alive!

Regards and all the best!

Dan Bashur
Low End Mac

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