Konica Minolta 2530DL

I'm glad to have my printer back for now. But one additional question. Before Leopard, I had three configurations stored for this printer; one full color, one B&W, one B&W lower res for draft uses. Those secondary profiles were deleted during my original printer troubleshooting rounds, but now, I can't seem to get back to a spot that will let me set things like the dpi, and no color. Is it just not available under the 2430 ppc driver, or am I just not looking in the right place? Mac switcher since June, so some of the under-the-hood stuff isn't quite second nature yet.

Thanks in advance for assistance!

Dear all,

I work for Konica Minolta support in Europe and I am very interested into the problems you are having.
Could you supply me with some more information?

What type of processor do you use, Intel or not?
What driver version are you using?
What is the language of your OS X.5?
Can you print the Printer Test Page?
Are you logged in as administrator or with a user with admin rights?
Etc.

Thanks,
Hugo Stoevelaar

Dear all,

We installed Leopard at an INTEL mac and we could reproduce the issue.
For the moment the solution is to use the 2430DL driver.
We will investigate the issue.

Regards
Hugo

Hi Gerrit,

I have created a special installation document for the 2530 dl on 10.5 and this will be available at the european support pages by today's end. I do nlt know what support in the US will do with this info. They are also informed....

Regards,
Hugo

Hi Hugo,

Many thanks for taking an interest in this problem.

Could you provide a link to the installation info on the European site. Probably being thick but can't find it...

Thanks to all for the 2430 drivers tip. I uninstalled my 2530 drivers and installed the 2430 drivers I downloaded from the KM Web site.

Printer fired right up!

I knew this was a Mac OS X Leopard problem since the printer worked fine when I am running XP via Parallels Desktop.

Hope KM gets a set of 2530 drivers soon for Leopard!

Now that KM has this printer identified as a 'legacy' printer, I have to wonder how motivated that they are to support it with new drivers for new OSs. It's not like they have anything to lose on that printer. Our best hope may come from Apple, since they have a little more reason (PR) to want to support it. Thoughts?

Hugo -

Sorry to intrude on this thread but I wonder if KM can help with another KM/Leopard issue - with the Magicolor 3300. I started a thread on this at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1234280&tstart=0.

Basically it doesn't work with Leopard. It was pointed out that the PPD fails cupstest ppd (under Leopard, its OK under Tiger) though I cannot see why.

Any help KM can bring to this would be appreciated.

Using the 2430 Driver really works. I have created a separate printer using that driver alongside the existing printer using the correct driver so that I can print from my powerbook still running Tiger. It seems to print from all applications OK on both machines.

I would hope that KM will produce the an updated 2530 driver, even if the printer is obsolete I am sure they still want to sell the consumables for it.

Hi Cookie1,

Sorry for the late reply but I have been off for a while.
The direct link is:

http://crm01.konicaminoltaeurope.com/openmind/technic/engineer/qmspubkb.nsf/0/AE A69C0E40AE3A49C125738D0078EE5B?EditDocument&query=%5BProducts%5D%3Dmagicolor%202 530DL%20AND%20(%5BOS%5D%3DMacintosh%20OS%20X%2010.5)&start=1&count=10&scope=1&searchfuzzy=Fals e&searchorder=1&searchmax=500&searchwv=False&sca=???&prd=magicolor%202530DL&lv1= Key%20Word%20Search&lv2=&rtk=webviewall

Regards,
HUgo

Dear all,

A new driver for the magicolor 2530DL for OS 10.5 Intel will be released in April 2008.

Regards,
Hugo

Hi Chris,

I will look into the other thread and replay there.

Hugo