Xerox DocuColor 242/EFI Fiery trouble

I'm having the same problem, we have an Ikon CPP-550 with EFI Fiery controller. Looks like the printer software is from 2007, I don't think it's going to work until EFI comes out with a new version. I tried without installing the software and just added printer then picked the Fiery PPD but it told me printer software not installed.

We have a couple of 'Fierys' connected to our Canon imageRUNNERs and while I haven't let anyone update to SL yet, I have done some testing previously with SL and found the same error, ie. you can add the printer queue but when you print a message appears stating that the driver software is not installed.

But you can still print to the copier by using Generic PostScript. While this is not ideal, at least you could some work done while you wait for EFI to release updated drivers.

Note that manually browsing to the PPD will not work, as the PPD references plugins that are the cause of the problem.

Pahu

Download the latest drivers from: http://www.support.xerox.com/go/results.asp?Xtype=download&prodID=DC242DC252_DC260&Xlang=en_US&Xcntry=USA&ripID=XRIPDXP260

I installed them yesterday and it's working, however there are still teething problems (I print a document on A3 and the first page is fine and then the rest rotate and cut off half the image). Let me know how you get on.

Thanks.

One workaround to try would be setting it up via Appletalk (or your usual connection method) on a 10.5 machine, sharing the queue, and printing to the shared queue. This worked for me (in some limited testing) so far - was able to assign the correct PPD on the Snow Leopard mac, and print to the 242 via a shared queue successfully.

I'm having the same problem here. We have a Canon IR 5058 with an ImagePass G1 attached, it's a fiery (EFI) device. I've gotten the PPD working by manually browsing to it but we can't use any of the features we need, like printing to mailboxes and secure print. These features require the EFI JobNotes plugins, which don't run in 10.6 as far as I can see.

This is our central printer and integral to our work flow here, until a driver comes from somebody our entire organization can't upgrade to snow leopard. Any suggestions would be very helpful. I've tried manually editing the PPD file to try to hard code some default values in there so using JobNotes wouldn't be necessary, but I've had no luck.

Sending back my copies of Snow Leopard. No appletalk printing and no support for our third party drivers is a show stopper for us.

I have an angry pitchfork mob. We need some of the features of snow leopard, but we use this one central printing solution for the entire department. We can't upgrade until it's resolved. Folks here have to define mailboxes to print to, and they have to be able to occasionally define secure print passwords. We're talking about 10 digits of information passed to the device. Apple needs to create their own fiery drivers with some limited functionality. At least being able to define the fiery options for the PPD. The fiery drivers always break with an upgrade. Very, very frustrating.

Found this post and it worked for my Xerox WorkCentre printer.


Yet another installer that set permissions incorrectly. Open the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities). Copy and paste the following command into a Terminal window:

sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/OKIDATA/

Then hit the Return or Enter key. Enter your administrator's password at the prompt.

Hopefully that will allow you to use the OKIDATA driver.

Matt

Mac Mini G4 and Intel C2D; B&W G3

I don't have an OKIDATA folder under /Library/Printers. We have an imagePass G1 hooked to a Canon IR 5058. I didn't think to try finding generic drivers somewhere, maybe I'll start that search. I believe our problem is the compatibility of the plugins for the PPD that provide the ability to define variables for the Fiery Job Notes.

There are three .plugin files under /Library/Printers/Canon/PS3/PDEs that accompany the PPD in /Library/Printers/PPDs/..... and provide functionality.

I did actually just go in there and chown them root:admin because they were owned by me, but that didn't change anything.

When we try to print and access the options from Safari, we get the message "The bundle ... couldn't be loaded because it doesn't contain a version for the current architecture."

I'm guessing that's x86_64, and maybe they're i386. I'm not sure. I don't think they're PPC binaries. I don't know enough about the 64 bit architecture and what is and isn't backward compatible and how.

Thanks for the response,
Bryan

For me, this worked for the Efi Fiery on the Xerox 242.

Doing a
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/XEROX

fixed the plug-in permissions so the driver would no longer throw the "not properly installed" error. Prior, they were installed with "unknown" as the owner.

I'm still mucking about with it, but I was able to get IP printing (LPD) to work (after allowing port 515 in Windows Firewall on the Fiery PC). Using the Windows printer does work - but it seems to want you to supply login credentials at every print.

Oh, and thanks to Matt for the permissions tip!

This fixed it for me just changed "OKIDATA" to "EFI"

thanks

Our Xerox is connected to an external efi fiery and I just went to the link http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/27/apple-releases-snow-leopard-compatible-print er-drivers/ and downloaded the latest xerox drivers compatible with snow leopard. There was no driver for the xerox 242 docucolor to choose so I installed the Xerox Doccuprint N2125.GZ and so far I'm able to print. I am not sure when the snow leopard driver for the 242 will be released but at least I'm printing.