PagePro 1350W Mac compatible Driver

Hi folks,

I have a mixed setup at home, a half PC, half Mac network, but I find myself increasingly leaning more and more toward the Mac side. The main reason that stops me from discarding my old PC altogether is the fact that I cannot find a Mac compatible driver for my printer, a Konica Minolta PagePro 1350W. Does anybody know a way around this?

eMac, iMac, iBook, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Nov 3, 2006 6:32 PM

25 replies

Jitanjafora Author

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Nov 25, 2006 6:19 AM in response to Matt Broughton

Hi Matt,

Don't worry, the printer is working. I'm just curious as how the whole thing worked.

For what I can gather, the printer is using the software I installed earlier as driver/filter, etc., and what you did in the end was adding the printer queue directly into Darwin. Am I getting it right?

Best,

F

Nov 25, 2006 5:20 PM in response to Jitanjafora

For what I can gather, the printer is using the
software I installed earlier as driver/filter, etc.,
and what you did in the end was adding the printer
queue directly into Darwin. Am I getting it right?

Right. The Foomatic-RIP, Ghostscript and the installer I provided constitute the driver/filter. The last part was adding a printer queue. This is normally done via Printer Setup Utility. It appears that you were trying to use "USB" for the device rather than selecting the actual printer listing at the bottom of the list. It can be very confusing. It is much better in Tiger.

With the information you provided from the Terminal response to /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb, I was able to supply a direct command to add the printer queue.

Matt

Nov 27, 2006 9:58 AM in response to Matt Broughton

Just a quick follow up to my own post. I have now added some basic documentation and the other printers that are supported by the min12xxw driver. It is not a universal binary at the moment, but hopefully it will at least provide some help to others. It is now available for download from <http://webpages.charter.net/mbroughtn/downloads/min12xxw-0.0.9.dmg>

Matt

Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300

Dec 23, 2006 8:25 AM in response to Matt Broughton

The driver package is now a Universal Binary. It can be downloaded at: <http://webpages.charter.net/mbroughtn/downloads/min12xxw-0.0.9.U.dmg>

Supported printers are:
Minolta PagePro 1200W
Minolta PagePro 1250W
Minolta PagePro 1300W
Minolta PagePro 1350W
Minolta PagePro 1400W

Also, it may work with the Konica Minolta Page PRO 1380 MF which supposedly uses the same host based drivers as the 1350W.

Matt

Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300

ericyao

Level 1

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Feb 18, 2007 8:31 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Hi Matt,

I installed Foomatic and ESP printing, also downloaded min12xxw. Can you tell me what to do next in order to get my Konica Minolta Pagepro1400w working. Coz some of your links in the other post don't work anymore. Thanks.

Feb 19, 2007 6:01 AM in response to ericyao

Everything has moved to the openprinting.org site and I removed everything from my individual site. The direct link to the new MacOSX min12xxw page is <http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/min12xxw>.

Matt

Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300

Jitanjafora Author

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Nov 4, 2006 8:19 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Thanks, Matt.

I'll try it, and I'll let you know how it went.

Thanks a lot again!

Felix

Jitanjafora Author

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Nov 14, 2006 7:31 AM in response to Matt Broughton

Hi Matt,

I installed the package you sent me, along with Foomatic-RIP and ESP Ghostscript. Do I have to take any other steps, like selecting a new printer?

Thanks a lot.

F

Jitanjafora Author

Level 2

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Nov 20, 2006 7:36 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Got it!

Thanx a bundle, man! I'll try it ASAP.

Jitanjafora Author

Level 2

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Nov 27, 2006 5:47 PM in response to Matt Broughton

Thanx a lot, man! Keep it up!

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