Can't print or properly install drivers for Ricoh Aficio MP C6000

Hi Mike,

Some Ricoh printers (And I am afraid this is one of this, check it at their website) have an optional and costly option to add PS support that is the proper way of printing from Macs.

Check it at Ricoh's website or your Ricoh's provider...

Regards.

I am not able to find the OS X 10.6 drivers on the Ricoh web site. You most likely installed the drivers for a previous version of OS X that will not function properly in OSS X 10.6.

I would suggest that you delete your printer. Then delete the following items that you most likely have installed:
/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/ricohJobLogC.plugin
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources RICOH Aficio MP C6000
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources RICOH Aficio MP C7500
/Library/Printers/RICOH (the entire folder)

The next thing you should do is to determine what printer languages your Ricoh supports. Your IT person should be able to tell you. Alternatively, you can have the printer print out a configuration sheet from the printer control panel.

If the printer does have a PostScript module installed, then download the OS X 10.6 Ricoh drivers from _ http://support.apple.com/kb/DL902_.

If the printer does not have the PostScript module installed, it should be able to use a PCL 6/PCL PXL driver. In this case, use the Mac OS X packages for the pxlmono driver. These can be found at _ http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o_. Be sure you also install Foomatic-RIP and Ghostscript.

On Snow Leopard, you may see the error message, “The printer software was installed incorrectly. Please reinstall the printer’s software or contact the manufacturer for assistance.”

The newest version of CUPS requires that all driver files be owned by root, and many PPDs and plugins are not owned by root by default. To remedy this, open a terminal wndow and type:

sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers

Will's terminal solution worked like a charm for me (I had the same problem with the B&W Ricoh Aficio MP 6000). Thanks.

I had also followed the Apple link above for info on Ricoh drivers provided via Apple, and they DO have a driver for the color MP 6000, but NOT the B&W 6000. Why not I don't know as it's long been available from Ricoh - it's for OS 10.5 and above (not 10.6 updated), but with this fix it works. The drivers available from the Apple link are the same as those installed by Software Update (but I think it only installs drivers for detected printers).

Will, you are the man!
Thanks a zillion times, I can finally print using ricoh's driver with all options instead of basic PS driver on 10.6.