Driver Bizhub 363

[Marie Ota]

Thebizhub C368 provides productivity features to speed your output in both color and B&W, including fast 36 ppm printing, optional single-pass dual scanning to bring originals into your workflow faster, powerful finishing options for right-size scalability and enhanced control panel which now features a new mobile connectivity area. The current model is the bizhub C350i.

Issue 2: I have setup the printer as 2 shares. one colour and one B&W. But issue 2 links backs to issue one, i can change the settings to gretscale but defualt which isnt editable changes it abck to colour.

I make a shared printer to default to ANY setting, log on server, right click driver, properties, advanced tab, then print defaults. Any changes here should now be the default settings for all users. FYI, greyscale is on quality tab.

In the testing phase of setting up universal print at my organization I noticed a lot of the printing preferences features are missing. When using Universal Print Class Driver I am limited to Layout settings and Paper/Quality. Some of my users need access to more than these preferences. The main thing missing that is needed is the Secure Print feature. If I change the driver to the Konica driver, the feature show up but, the Universal Print Driver errors out. Has anyone run into this on the Konica printers? I will list the printer models we have below as well as attach pictures of what I am talking about.

in my organization we use Universal Drivers from Konica for a long time and we have access to the options you need. We still use a version which is slightly outdated (3.2 or 3.3) but still functioning perfectly.

@Serge Malchair Hey, I'm talking about Microsoft Universal Driver. When adding the printers to the connector I used the basic Konica drivers. Are you saying I need to use Konica Universal Print drivers for Microsoft Universal print or are we talking about two different things?

@AdamK_DC / @JoshEberly - For best experience, printers need to work directly with Universal Print using the IPP standard protocol. Konica Minolta has announces firmware updates and printers that do so - -us/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-partner-integrations#k....

If you are using a connector, then what options show-up really depends on the quality of print driver being used on connector. Universal Print uses the Windows Print schema to identify attributes - however, some drivers use their own schema which can be very hard to interpret. For more details on how this is done, refer to the documentation. You may want to your printer OEM on whether they recommend a particular driver to be used on connector.

Regarding Secure printing - are you using PIN? For printers that work on protocols (instead of drivers), Windows added support for PIN printing in Windows 11. Universal Print printers work on protocols as well and PIN printing is supported provided the printer OEM has enabled the PIN option for their Universal Print ready printers.

Hi

I have the exactly same issue with Konica Printers (759e), the stappling feature is missing and this is really annoying. Did you find a solution ? I installed latest konica drivers but no changes.

Thanks @bouyaka. We appreciate your persistence with the solution and making it work.

Universal Print is trying to shift industry to "driverless" printing and use PWG's IPP standard. We understand there are printers that are not yet ready. We are trying our best to support them via connector. Sometimes drivers provide information in a very customized way that may not be understood by connector. Our partners are working hard to make it work with their drivers :).

Hopefully you can help others in the community as you get experienced with using Universal Print :)

@bouyaka - Konica Minolta recently launched an app that can be installed on the printer and this will altogether remove the need for connector (and issues with driver on the connector). You may want to give it a try if your printer supports it.

@apali1976 - its up to the OEM to implement those specific options. From a platform standpoint, Universal Print supports it. I recommend reaching out to Konica Minolta and checking with them if they have a more recent version of app to support all options.

I don't think I need to explain the contents of that command to any of you. Except to say, I want to add a Xerox printer in this case that uses AirPrint. I am connecting Macs, not iOS. When I add the printer manually, using the IP address, I end up with a default printer icon. When I use AirPrint, I get the full icon that represents the actual printer.

If you just want to use the AirPrint driver on a printer with a reliable DNS name or IP address, use the model switch in lpadmin instead of a PPD path, and choose the IPP Everywhere driver.

lpadmin -P SomeAirPrinter -D "Some AirPrint Printer" -E -v ipp://example.com/queuename -m everywhere

If you're in a situation where you must specify a path to a PPD file, it hides out in the Application Services framework, and has for several major OS version now, so its not likely to go anywhere.

lpadmin -P SomeAirPrinter -D "Some AirPrint Printer" -E -v ipp://example.com/queuename -P /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AirPrint.ppd

If you're in a situation where you don't have fixed network toopology and must use dnssd, you should really rethink your network management, but the sequence of steps is:

1. Find the AirPrint printer URL with lpinfo -v. Pick one of anything starting dnssd:// .

2. Use the dns-sd command to retrieve the TXT record from the advertisement for the dnssd URL.

3. Use you preferred text parser to pull out the UDID for the printer.

4. Append the UDID to the dnssd URL, and use that with lpadmin and the IPP Everywhere driver.

lpadmin -P SomeAirPrinter -E -V dnssd://Some%20Air%20Printer._ipp._tcp.local./?uuid=0123abcd-4567-efab-cd890123efab -m everywhere

The ippfind command provides a somewhat easier way to get a working local queue, albeit not exactly equivalent to the way AirPrint does it.

1. Run ippfind. No arguments needed since they defaults are fine.

2. Add the queue with the resulting URL and IPP everywhere driver

lpadmin -p SomeAirPrinter -E -v $(ippfind head -1) -P /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/PrintCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AirPrint.ppd

Do not use the above command in production since you can't trust the queue names will always appear in the same order in ippfind.

Bad news: I'm giving a presentation on printer management in a few weeks, and stuff has changed! I'm not going to have the time to do thorough testing with Catalina. The audience will not be pleased. Anybody have recommendations on paintball masks or techniques for removing tomato and rotten fruit stains from clothing?

Thanks mainelysteve!!! Worked immediately. Knowledgeable people like you I admire! Need some bass guitar lessons? With AirPrint, I should still be able to get the Icon for the printer, and not the generic icon...no? At present, I have the generic icon. No worries, if your busy. I'll keep plugging away.

You're using the IPP everywhere driver as mentioned by @joshuasee above. It's a generic driver so the printer icon and settings won't be specific to the device. AirPrint still searches for and installs a manufacturer "driver" and will use the everywhere driver in other cases.

Hey @mainelysteve @joshuasee what would one do for printers that are hosted out of a Windows queue in a very large corporate print anywhere type solution? We don't use IPP for those. We install them with lpadmin using:

@Ludeth Do you have a method of broadcasting AirPrint queues to clients? Windows Server alone won't help with this. If you use Papercut in your environment then their Mobility software can help with that. Others may chime in with different ideas as well.

Additionally If you're using kerberos tickets or a un/pw prompt on the first print job then you'll need to adjust your environment i.e. enterprise connect, SSO/Kerberos profile(10.15+) or Nomad. If you bind your clients and they use mobile accounts or even network accounts that may be enough. If you don't have any specific permissions applied to the queues then this is a moot point.

Hi @joshuasee,

I have similar problems getting ipp queue together. May you help me out. We use HP Officejet Pro 8730 on cabked ethernet.

Do access the scan function correctly we need a valid queue. I cannot find much on dns-sd usage. How do you get the txt record and the udid ? lpinfo -v shows no dnssd printers. We mainly try to find the printer. They are dhcp configured and have a fixed hostname, so it should be possible to find them. a ping and nslookup work find. But i cannot get the ipp queue together,....

@mainelysteve as you noted above @cpominville was still using the IPP Everywhere generic driver. Is there a significant difference between the Airprint driver and the IPP Everywhere driver? If so, how do you designate the Airprint driver. If I use -m airprint or -P with anything, I get the dreaded "May 29 2020 13:27:46 -0400 ERROR: Error: lpadmin: Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS" and my install script fails.

@roodavis I don't believe there is any difference between the two, but I'm not a CUPS or printer expert by any means. I think the issue you're seeing is due to the uppercase P. Change it to a lowercase p and the command should go through.

@roodavis That may be down the device (MFP or not) and whether it provides icons, finishing options, etc. IPP everywhere will not since it's a generic driver. My comment above about the two being similar was more or less tied to devices that don't provide that information or for instances where the AirPrint broadcasting was coming from software based sources, not the tree killer itself.

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