Open UNIX printing to Ricoh Copier
Chris Rendall
copiers and it's not quite working. I set the system to print to a remote
print server and the print jobs just sit in the queue. The Ricoh supports
lpd printing but I'm not sure how to get it working. Anyone have any ideas?
Chris
Karel Adams
"Chris Rendall" <cren...@teamind.com> schreef in bericht news:Xns91C0D92FACE00c...@24.164.224.58...
Yes lots
Like for instance:
-) make sure the devices can ping one another (both by name and by IP-adress)
-) RTFM
-) send us your /etc/printcap file
-) tell us what steps you went through
-) in particular, stating whether you did 'accept ricoh' and 'enable ricoh'
-) consult good sites like Tony Lawrence's
-) sending a file to the printer/copier from an ftp session might print it out,
depending on the printer server's qualities
Pat Welch
Never used one, but I've set up lots of LPD printers under both OS5 and
UW7.
1) more info - how did you set it up?
2) Did you configure the IP address and subnet-mask on the Ricoh? How?
3) Very basic - can you ping the Ricoh: by number? by name assigned to
the device in scoadmin?
4) Did you edit /etc/printcap so the correct 'port' is addressed on the
Ricoh? (the name will be in their docs
5) Is the LPD name mapped in /etc/hosts?
6) more info (redundant request :) )
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Mike Brown
You require some secret information.
The name of the print queue on the Ricoh is something like
RDP_123456
where the 123456 is the serial number of the printer. I think
it may also be the last digits of the MAC address of the ethernet
interface.
So, set up a hosts entry for the copier
eg:
192.168.100.44 ricoh01 ricoh01.anywhere.com
and then configure a lpd printer as
RDP_123456@ricoh01
Good luck,
Mike
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Chris Rendall
> Chris Rendall wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to configure my Open UNIX system to print to our networked
>> Ricoh copiers and it's not quite working.
>>
> You require some secret information.
>
> The name of the print queue on the Ricoh is something like
>
> RDP_123456
>
> where the 123456 is the serial number of the printer. I think
> it may also be the last digits of the MAC address of the ethernet
> interface.
>
Thanks Mike! That was it!
I have the Aficio Manager installed on one of my Windows Servers and that
application goes out and finds all my Ricoh copier/printers and returns the
"secret" information on each printer. Once I entered that information in
for the printer setup the printing started working perfectly.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris Rendall
> Thanks Mike! That was it!
>
> I have the Aficio Manager installed on one of my Windows Servers and
> that application goes out and finds all my Ricoh copier/printers and
> returns the "secret" information on each printer. Once I entered that
> information in for the printer setup the printing started working
> perfectly.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
Looks like I might have spoken too soon. All but one of my Ricoh
copier/printers prints out. The one that doesn't is an Aficio 450 which is
the oldest of the Ricoh's we have. The document seems to sit in the queue
for 10 minutes until it times unlike to others that print right away. I may
have to check with my Ricoh dealer to see if there is anything they can do.
Chris
Mike Brown
Try printing the printserver config page for each of the printers, I can
remember that the earlier ones having a default configuration that I had
to change. If my memory was better ....
Chris Rendall
I have the Aficio Manager installed on one of my Windows Servers and that
application goes out and finds all my Ricoh copier/printers and returns the
"secret" information on each printer. Once I plugged that in information in
the printing is working perfectly.
Thanks,
Chris
"Mike Brown" <mi...@tkg.ca> wrote in message news:3C7C520B...@tkg.ca...
Chris Rendall
with it and from the command line I can print to the Ricoh copier using
netcat. But using the lp command to use netcat doesn't work. The examples
I found use OpenServer 5 with netcat and I'm not sure what I need to change
to get it to work with Open UNIX. The printing systems seem to be quite
different between OpenServer and Open UNIX/UnixWare.
Anyone have any suggestions on how to configure the lp command to use netcat
to output to the copier/printer?
Thanks,
Chris
Jean-Pierre Radley
Either Tom Melvin or Jeff Liebermann or both of them have simple sample
lp interface scripts that use netcat, on their respecitve websites. I'll
dig one out if you can't find them yourself.
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JP
Tony Lawrence
From the FAQ: http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#getnetcat
A simple netcat interface script is:
PORT=9100 # for hp, netgear, some others
shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
# throw away everything but the file names
cat $* | netcat -h printserver -p $PORT
There are other examples here.
Printing through pipe device: http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#ncex1
Printing through interface script: http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#ncex2
You'll also want to see http://pcunix.com/Jeffl/portnumbers.html
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Bill Vermillion
Just for reference so he [and anyone else can find it[ that source is
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/lp
I thought I saw one of your interface scripts there at one time but
I dont' see it there now.
Bill
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Chris Rendall
news:3C80B4EE...@pcunix.com:
>
> Printing through pipe device:
> http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#ncex1
>
> Printing through interface script:
> http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#ncex2
>
> You'll also want to see http://pcunix.com/Jeffl/portnumbers.html
>
Thanks for the excellent links! I used the one on printing throught the
interface script and it works great.
Thanks again!
Chris