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.
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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.
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.
Then a Windows 10 update(major or not,don't know exactly) stopped proper function of SD card reader. Now on Device Manager it appears SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller(I remember it as Ricoh Media xxxxx) , I can read the SD cards but I cannot write, as the card seems always write-protected regardless of the position of the switch on the card. I cannot format any of them or write anything whatsover.
Of course I have tried various cards or tweaking the registry for write-protectionremoval, but is seems as hardware/driver problem of the built-in card reader. Using an external memory card readers I have normal function of reading/writing memory cards.
I have always given forum members the Vista driver which has worked on W10, and I haven't heard of any one stating it quit working. Then of course if no one uses the card reader, then I wouldn't see any feedback.
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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I am a teacher for an 8th Digital Graphics class. We purchased a new Ricoh Sp C840dn printer, and it prints Photoshop files but I cannot print from Illustrator or InDesign and that is with the 840dn PS driver and PCL 6. What we are baffled by is the old driver for the 7200 works. Emailed Ricoh, but thought somebody might here might know.
The recommended path for Indesign is to create a PDF file and to print that. For illustrator you may use the same or open the Illustrator file with Acrobat (because of the embedded PDF file) and print from there.
I saw this also when I googled. So if I understand what MFP does it is some sort of protection over the network? So if it is enabled we need to turn it off to the printer. I am confused how the old driver works but the new one does not. The old one uses PS6 also.
(Note: The procedure from step 2 is explained using Windows 7 as an example.)
If the printer you want to delete has a tick mark next to the printer icon (your default printer) choose another printer as your default:
A dialog will appear to confirm whether you want to remove the driver(s) only, or remove the driver(s) and driver package(s) from your system. Select "Remove driver and driver package." and click [OK].
If a warning message appears to say that the driver cannot be deleted because it is currently in use, click [Cancel], and then restart Windows. Next, begin this procedure again, starting from step 5.
Below are some of the basic print drivers used for Pharos Secure printing to the Copier Program fleet. If you need a Pharos direct print driver please contact the Copier Program at x9-5273 or copierprogram@ucsc.edu. We generally advise against direct printing except to IP printers and Pharos-enabled devices that are in the room with you (for security reasons, among other things).
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