Ricoh Pcl 6 Driver

[Arnaude Kubiak]

Likemost print drivers from the print server: Devices and Printers - printer properties- Advanced- select B&W apply setting. because you have done this in the Advanced tab this will share down to the end users

Ensure you are using a Standard TCP/IP port, not WSD, and the proper Ricoh driver from the website, not the Ricoh Class Driver included with windows. Slow print is common with the WSD port. The best way to add printers is with the Add Printer Wizard, Add Printer, Local Printer, create TCP/IP port, Have Disk to get driver.

Our shiny new multifunctin device works like a charm. But Ricoh only makes postscript drivers for ... Windows. We have Windows machines here but they spend most of their time updating ... Windows. We'd like to actually get some work done.

This PPD installer is used to install a PPD (Postscript Printer Description) file on Mac OSX. PPD files contain descriptions of printer capabilities such as paper sizes, number of input trays and duplexing. Once the PPD file is installed on the system using the PPD installer, the PS driver that comes bundled with Mac OS X can use the information in the PPD to control the print device and enable full functionality.

Look, folks, I know what Ricoh says. I've spent more time on their website than you can imagine. I've installed the PPD file (which is just the driver file mentioned earlier). If it's working with Apple Postscript it's pretty darn subtle. Print quality stinks. FYI this printer replaced our Ricoh Aficio CL7200D that finally gave out after eight wonderful years. I've been doing this for a while. Please don't assume I'm an idiot. Thanks.

Then you should have explained your problem was print quality from your printer, not asking about a postscript driver. There is no way to know what you've tried or what the problem is unless you state it.

The problem is the postscript printer. Printing with postscript under Windows works fine, highest quality. But there is no apparent way to access postscript on the Mac. Your snark has been noted. FYI I'm running Windows 7 in a vmWare Fusion virtual machine. The software is Adobe Illustrator.

Folks, I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. I asked a similar question on the Adobe board. No luck. I plan to spend some quality time Monday morning on the phone with Ricoh tech support. Good thoughts appreciated. If I get a solution, I'll post it here.

Keep in mind those drivers are a couple weeks short of five years old as of this writing, and printing has changed over that time. The install is failing by design, specifically because a line in the install check script stops it if macOS version 11 is detected. You could hack the installer to defeat that script, but I still have my doubts about them working. I would recommend finding a different driver or replacing the printer.

You didn't mention what Ricoh device you're using, but If memory serves, Ricoh copier/printers had PostScript as an optional feature, but the macOS drivers required it. That could be what you're running into with the Ricoh supplied PPD.

Ricoh(5055's & C6004's) and Papercut here. No driver issues in Catalina. We use the postscript drivers on Ricoh's website.

Can't comment on Big Sur as I've blocked it until Sophos gets the lead outta their tookus and releases their BS compatible update.

Same issue here and my google-fu isn't finding any answers. My hunch is that it is that the installer isn't properly notarized which is why it won't fly with Big Sur. I might try notarizing it myself for internal use, but I think I tried that back in the summer.

As a matter of fact, actually any Mac driver for the printer model would do I guess.

It would be great help, since its not there in the Apple Ricoh Driver 3.0 pack you posted above, I already checked.

Many thanks in advance!

Looking on Ricoh's site they only have W7 and Windows Server 2008R2 as their only drivers for this particular model. That tells me the model is quite old and non-supported so Mac drivers from Ricoh or Apple most likely won't happen. I'd stick with the generic PPD or find something a little newer to kill trees with if that's a possibility.

Thank you all for the response.

@joshuasee , we are using Ricoh IM C4500 / 6000 MFP. Apparently the drivers in Ricoh website stated it is PPD file but when I dig into /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ it is not in a format I can upload to the policy.

@mainelysteve Yes, on Catalina no issues and works like a fly. How did you extract and upload the PPD file as the postscript drivers in Ricoh webpage does not contain the*.gz file? Did you map the printer from Jamf Pro? Care to share how you add the printer in Jamf Pro?

In our environment, we are using Papercut as well and also using virtual printer.

@sebastianl No extracting here. I use the provided pkg with no modifications. The printers I need to map are done through our Munki/Managed Software Center infrastructure. A user picks a printer, clicks install and in the back end it runs a script that uses lpadmin to actually map the printer on the client. It's semi old school as it relies on the driver(the .gz) being installed which as most of us have read are on borrowed time. I don't mess with the printer policies in Jamf Pro as I'd rather a bone headed slip-up or management hiccup not mess with my queues.

Once I upgrade my PaperCut app server I'm going to trial the print deployment tool they have or tempt fate and start using AirPrint. Either way it's best to start prepping for the current and future cups changes to macOS.

@mainelysteve We actually have the AirPrint working in Papercut on our environment. It works great but AirPrint does not have some printing features (like set dpi) compared to mapping printers. We have yet to try Print Deploy yet and curious as well on how it works. Do post some updates if you get it to work.

I waded into it not long after that post, but the pool was too cold so I got out very quickly. Print Deploy uses Zones based on IP addressing which wouldn't work for me since IP addressing sometimes spans to other buildings on our campus so it was pointless for me to continue down that rabbit hole.

We are using Mobility Print in Papercut for quite some time now. It has limited printing options but get the job done. Easy to set up and works really well. I hope you have a good transition to Mobility Print.

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Anyone know if a Ricoh MP 4055 will work with autocad? Installed the driver for the ricoh printer and whenever Autocad is started will not load until the print spooler is turned off or the print driver uninstalled.

How is the driver configured to print to the hardware? Is it going straight to the printer's IP address or is it going to a print server? Is it getting spooled locally first? If so, you might turn that option off to see if that makes any change.

There is no server in this environment. They have 6 or 7 computers and the print driver is installed on each computer. The driver is installed to an ip address. Autocad was already installed before this printer was installed. They had a xerox printer before this that worked fine they say. They are using REVIT 2018, Architectural Deskptop 2018 and AutoCAD MEP 2018.

I am waiting for some responses from specialists and I thank you for your patience. I looked at the NFO files and didn't see anything unusual. I am a little amazed that this is occurring because I don't think there are any calls to any print drivers during startup. Can you make a Screencast of how this is working/not working? How far into startup does AutoCAD get?

While I am waiting for the team to get back to me on their tests in Windows 7, they have asked if you might prepare a Screencast video that shows this behavior so that they might get a better idea of what is happening.

When it starts up does it show how far it is getting in the launch process? Does it look like it is doing a license check? I assume that since there is no server in the environment that it is looking to authenticate licenses with the Autodesk servers. Is there a firewall device that might be preventing access?

Are the CAD users printing to a PC3 file from within AutoCAD or directly to the Windows System Printer. If the Xerox driver is no longer necessary please verify that it is totally removed the workstation and then reinstall the Ricoh driver.

The xerox driver is completely gone and they are not printing to anything as they cannot get Autocad to open. Is there anything special that has to be done during installation for a printer that is not a plotter? I'm thinking it's just install on windows and then when autocad is open to pick that printer and print. I know the plotter has to be installed in the plotter manager.

I connected with your customer this morning and she indicated that she couldn't duplicate the problem on a couple of machines! She also indicated that some of the non-CAD machines were having problems with it installed too.

I suggested that she temporarily disable their anti-virus software and also to try a PCL5 version of the driver. She will also configure the driver to print directly to the printer (no spooling) and will also check the security settings to add Manage the printer for the Everyone group.

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