How To Connect Ricoh Printer
Martha Weitz
Checking the Ricoh web site, there is a PPD installer available for 10.8. In order to use this PPD, you would need to have a Postscript print kit in the Ricoh, which appears to be an option. So do you know if your printer has the Postscript option installed? If it does, then you can use the 10.8 PPD installer.
I will create lists and tables in the Pages documents, I used to put my company logo, name and contact on header area, so every page of my document will show the same thing. I found the new Pages could only allow to put text in header, it can't insert logo (e.g.jpg, gif or png). This is strange and very inconvenient, I don't know it could be done by other method? Or, it is just a error?
I think it may related to the connection problem. I clicked print in Pages which the printer didn't print, I restart my Mac immediately , the printer print my previous order but can't print again if I wanted to print a new documents...
As I mentioned before, if the Ricoh supports the Postscript printer language then you could create a new printer in Printers & Scanners but use the Generic Postscript driver included with 10.9. Then see if you can print without the same problem.
When she is using Remote Desktop from location H to location Q, she wants to be able print back to H. The printer in H goes offline about 15 seconds after the VPN connection is established and comes back up as soon as the connection is disconnected. I've used this configuration many times and never had this problem. Is it particular to Ricoh's? It's a Ricoh MPC3500. The config is below, names have been X'd out to protect the innocent
For printing locally when connected via VPN session, you would need to have split tunnel configured to start with. Further to that, the office network/subnet can't be in the same subnet as the local subnet as that fails the normal TCP/IP L3 principal and one of a reason printing locally won't work if the office network happens to be in the same subnet as local subnet. If you have split tunnel configured, and office network is different to local network, printing locally would work.
All printers that are on the same LAN will install properly and function properly (how to fix printer offline). Printers will either not install or immediately bring up a list to select the appropriate printer to print to (indicating connection failure). From each computer I can successfully ping the printer (25-30ms response times). Computers are Win7-64bit. No Print Servers are brokering, all direct IP connections.
Now we're having problems on two ricoh digital printers, these two machines to connect externally to ricoh servers to send diagnostic and consumable information to the vendor. According to the vendor support it uses port 161 and 443 udp to connect to a range of hosts ips 210.173.216.40 to 210.172.216.77. We went thru cookbook "Using virtual IPs to configure port forwarding" but the scenario presented is from outside remote user going inside internal network.
Assuming the communication is initiated from behind the fgt device, outward - there shouldn't be a need to create VIPs. Just set up the firewall policy using the printers IPs as the source address(s) with the ricoh servers IP address range as the dest addresses. Something like:
The default one-line firewall policy that is configured on factory reset fgt devices are set to allow "open access" traffic from the internal interface to through the WAN connection - if your company has crafted their own firewall polices then that question should be directed to whoever created those policies.
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Actual Model: Orbi RBK753S-100NAS, satellite:RBS750, AC4200 series (not in your choice menu). I have just ordered the 3 piece Orbi Tri-band and I was hoping that I could order an additonal satellite and connect our large business legacy Ricoh printer/copier/scanner to the satellite to join the network and be used by wireless and wired devices on the network. Right now it can only be accessed if you are connected on the wired part of the network, the wireless devices can't access it even though they are going to the same router(cable modem combo). Inshort the Ricoh has no wireless capabilities, but it does have an Ethernet connections. This is not a inexpensive home printer that is easily replaced, and we need the capabilities of this printer. Any suggestions or information would be helpful. Thank You, SusyH.
Right now it can only be accessed if you are connected on the wired part of the network, the wireless devices can't access it even though they are going to the same router(cable modem combo).
Yes, ethernet-only devices should be able to connect to an Orbi satellite and appear to other devices connected to other Orbi satellites or the Orbi base. It is a single network with connectivity between everything (except when some problemmatic devices are used, like specific switches).
However, please explain why in your current setup your wireless devices cannot access the Ricoh. If you are using your cable modem+router then anything wired to it should be accessible wireless devices connect to the wifi from your cable modem+router (since it is a single network shared between its wired and wireless devices). There may be something specific to the Ricoh printer and its config that is preventing your current wireless devices from accessing the printer, even when they are on the same network, and switching to the Orbi will not change that.
UPDATE: I was able to get the wired ethernet Ricoh to work on the system, but first I had to change the static IP address to one that is in the Orbi IP address ranges. The Ricoh installer had set it with a static IP address 11 years ago when it was installed (hence a very old but super nice printer, scanner, copier, fast laser that can print double sided, staple and use up to 11x17 paper.) However the old network that I replaced with the Orbi had a different IP address range. I found the range in the large Netgear manual on the product (that I downloaded BEFORE I took the network down and printed on the very same printer!) I found the former IP address on the printer in the properties of the printer software on the computers that used it. Thus I figured out why Orbi was't "talking" to Ricoh printer over the ethernet wiring.
I did call tech support with Netgear when I tried to add the printer to the network, but the young man obviously did not understand about static IP's as he keep yelling at me that the address is assigned by the router - which is true if it is an active, not a static address. What I asked him was about reserving the static address or bank of addresses as I had done in older networks so that the address would not be used in the DHCP server range he became quite agitated. The Netgear manual and the actual software available through the Orbi app (or through a web interface) do not match the instruction manual, hence my query on that point. Needless to say, I did not get an answer about reserving an address, however the number I assigned to the printer is way down in the range and we don't seem to have a problem.
In the meantime I was able to change the IP address in the printer by myself (I am a 73 year old computer Warrior!!!) and the Ricoh printer joined the wired network after a printer re-boot. Yeah to me for figuring all that out on my own! (Remember these things didn't exist for me during my college years and I was not formerely trained in networking - have had to learn the hardway.) I then reinstalled the printer with the latest drivers in the computers that use that printer. So it is now working on the ethernet hardwired network.
As for using a non-wifi printer via wifi. I found several add on devices that advertise they can hook to the ethernet outlet (there are others for USB ports) that could work. However, after writing to one company the tech support suggested that I bring the actual ethernet cable directly to main Orbi Router (which has 2 extra LAN line RJ45 jacks) rather than run from the switch to the Orbi Router. That, he suggested, should allow me to reach it wirelessly. I haven't tried that as yet as my husband's legacy computer works best on the ethernet connection and so I have to have my computer wired in tothe network to use it. When necessary (if the printer lasts that long), I will try to connect through the wifi signal from the Orbi mesh and see if I have found the solution on my own!
Therefore I would say at this point, unless someone actually has had experience with this variation that they wish to share, I have a workable method to continue to use our Ricoh printer, abeit through the ethernet cable.
Glad you figured out the issue and resolved the problem. This is why using DHCP instead of static IP addresses for devices is usually preferred and results in less network maintenance, because if changing the router in the future you will not break network connectivity and the device will receive a new, valid IP address. You can still set a "fixed" DHCP address via your Orbi's DHCP config so that within your Orbi's network your printer will keep receiving the same IP address and you can reference the printer via a fixed IP address (that won't change until your replace your Orbi or completed reconfigure your Orbi's network).
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