willpearson

Q: Printing from mac to Ricoh Printer

Hi there,

 

Could anybody could help me?

 

I'm running 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and I have a Ricoh Aficio MP C2800 photocopier/printer.  I downloaded these three files:

 

Foomatic 4.0.6

Ghostscript 8.7.1

Ricoh-Aficio_MP_C2800-pxlcolor-Ricoh.ppd

 

All from here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o

 

I installed the first two and saved all the files including the driver in a folder within applications.  I plugged in the printer via usb (I figured I'd make the networking work later) and found the printer easily.  I selected the above ppd driver from the folder I'd saved it to.  It let me customise some features - extra paper trays/finishers etc.  So good so far.

 

When I tried to print a test page, it just gets stuck sending the data.  I can see the test print in the print queue.  It says 'Printing - sending data to printer.'  And that's as far as I get.

 

Can anyone give me some pointers please??

 

Many thanks,

 

Will

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Sep 23, 2015 4:00 AM

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