Ricoh Aficio MP1600Le - Trouble printing to this printer from iMac

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How is the printer connected to the Mac?
Can you refer us to the link you downloaded the drivers from?

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The drivers from the Ricoh site are for those printers that have the optional PostScript module installed. Your description would indicate that the PostScript module is most likely not installed.

You will need to determine the printer languages that your printer can understand. You do this by printing a configuration page from the printer. If the configuration page shows that it can understand PCL 6/PCL XL, then you can install the pxlmono drivers for Mac OS X from http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o. Be sure to also download and install Foomatic-RIP and Ghostscript.

Would you consider writing a tip on the user contributed tip page on more how this works? This might be helpful for others.

a brody wrote:
Would you consider writing a tip on the user contributed tip page on more how this works? This might be helpful for others.

Do you have an idea or suggestion as to the scope of this hint? Do I limit it to Ricoh family of printers? There are other brands that this would apply to such as many Xerox printers. The problem is that there are some brands where only some of their models may offer a configuration page with printer languages.

The scope should be whatever you have experience with or good documentation to prove it works.

Did you first print out a configuration page for the printer? What printer languages does your printer support?

Sribashyam wrote:
I could not print a config page from the printer, but looked at the tech specs of the product's page in Ricoh.com website and found the below details.

The general instructions for how to print a configuration page can be found at http://tinyurl.com/2a3vas2 More specific instructions should be available from your owner's manual.

Printer Languages:
Option1: PCL5e, PCL6, RPCS,
Option:Adobe Postscript3
Option2: DDST

The problem is that this listing does not indicate what printer languages your printer can use. If your printer only has the DDST option, you will not be able to use it with a Mac computer.

Without knowing what your configuration page shows, about the only thing you can do to troubleshoot the problem is to make sure that the driver you have set for the printer is "Ricoh Aficio MP 1600 PXL" and that you do not have User Codes enabled on the printer.

I am glad to hear that you found the solution and can print from your Mac.