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Printer Driver for RICOH Aficio - only PostScript?

Found the office RICOH Aficio MP C4500 printer on the office network via IP# and the driver (v. 1.3) was installed automatically on my MB! Success!


BUT when printing to the printer from my MB all I get is a postscript dump, eg. text + blank pages. Searching the forums I get the idea that the driver is only for Post Script. And I guess (but don't know for sure) that the printer is lacking the postscript module/feature ...


From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669?viewlocale=en_US I see that the RICOH Aficio MP C4500 is supported by OS X Mountain Lion (and as I mentioned, it did install without any problems). But I can't see that it should be only PostScript?


From http://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/re/model/mp35/mp35en.htm I can only find driver (v. 1.0) for OS X 10.7, not any for OS X 10.8 – haven't tried it – and still I can't see that it should be only for post script enabled printers ...


My office windows pc is printing fine to the RICOH Aficio. The driver on here is a RPCS Printer Driver (v. 8.60). The office tech-support will only take care of pc setup - thus I'm on my own when it comes to setting up the printer from my MB!


Do I need a RPCS driver for OS X Mountain Lion? And what does RPCS mean?


Any help is most appriciated!

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion, iPhone 4 w/ iOS 5

Posted on Aug 14, 2012 1:42 AM

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Aug 14, 2012 6:44 PM in response to mfog

RPCS is a Windows only printer language. The specifications for this printer that are listed in their brochure indicate that PCL 6 should also be a standard printer language for this printer. Only PostScript and direct PDF are optional. Obviously, you do not have the PostScript card installed.


You should be able to print using the pxlmono/pxlcolor drivers from OpenPrinting.org. You can download the drivers (be sure to get all three packages) from http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o.


Post back with any problems or if you need to use Job Codes.


EDIT: The packages will work fine with Mountain Lion despite the page only listing up to 10.7.


Message was edited by: Matt Broughton

Sep 28, 2012 3:30 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Matt Broughton wrote:


You should be able to print using the pxlmono/pxlcolor drivers from OpenPrinting.org. You can download the drivers (be sure to get all three packages) from http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o.


Post back with any problems or if you need to use Job Codes.


EDIT: The packages will work fine with Mountain Lion despite the page only listing up to 10.7.


Message was edited by: Matt Broughton


Thanks, Matt! These drivers are working great for me with a Ricoh Aficio C4000 and Mountain Lion!

Oct 2, 2012 10:19 AM in response to Matt Broughton

UPDATE: I figured out how to choose the PXL driver, but now it mini-hangs at the setting up window and then says it cannot verify the printer on my network due to an error.


Hi, I have same issue as OP. I downloaded the above packages (all three), reset my printers, and attempted to add my Ricoh Aificio MP C3500, however, I don't get a pop-up window as detailed in the readme instructions. Any suggestions?

Oct 2, 2012 11:08 AM in response to Matt Broughton

You, Sir, KICK *$$! Your solution solved my MacBook Pro printing headache. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!🙂 The problem with my earlier attempts to add the printer involved using the wrong IPV4 address. I was erreoneously trying to you the gateway address. Anyway, it's ALL good now. Did I say thank you? Without this solution I might have faced being fired by my employer! Now, I'll continue to be happily employed. THANK YOU.


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Jan 9, 2013 9:16 AM in response to mfog

Thank you guys.. this helped me a lot!


To conclude, the working solution is:

Download 3 drivers listed on this page: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/pxlmon o


Direct links to the 3 drivers from page mentioned above are:


Foomatic-RIP for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion):

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/macosx/foomatic-rip-4.0.6.230.d mg - dowload and install this


pxlmono 1.9 for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion):

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/macosx/pxlmono-1.9.dmg - dowload and install this


Ghostscript for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion):

http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/macosx/gplgs-8.71.dmg - dowload and install this



I think Foomatic-RIP should be installed first, as some of the other packages were asking for it during the installation.


In my case, printer was Ricoh Aficio MP C3500. When installing, don't forget to choose the PXL driver/version.


Hope this helps!

Jan 17, 2013 11:22 AM in response to Matt Broughton

Matt


I've got an similar issue with a C5502 from ricoh.

The only ricoh Drivers I have found are Postscript PPD.

I need to use copy tracking codes.


The config page from the copier

under Printer Language says

Adobe PDF [1.03], RPCS [3.12.23], PCL 5c [1.07], PCL XL [1.07

I don't see Postscript 3 I only see "PDF"

here is a link to a pdf of the config page http://sdrv.ms/YbSpQo


Basicly the machine gets the print job in accepts the print code

then cancels the print job.




If the client has to spend money on an upgrade they will

to make it less complicated in setting up the clients.


Any help would be greatly appreciated


Brian

Printer Driver for RICOH Aficio - only PostScript?

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