Ricoh Aficio Mp C2000 Drivers For Mac

Found the office RICOH Aficio MP C4500 printer on the office network via IP# and the driver (v. 1.3) was installed automatically on my MB! BUT when printing to the printer from my MB all I get is a postscript dump, eg. Text + blank pages. Searching the forums I get the idea that the driver is only for Post Script. And I guess (but don't know for sure) that the printer is lacking the postscript module/feature.

From I see that the RICOH Aficio MP C4500 is supported by OS X Mountain Lion (and as I mentioned, it did install without any problems). But I can't see that it should be only PostScript? From I can only find driver (v.

1.0) for OS X 10.7, not any for OS X 10.8 – haven't tried it – and still I can't see that it should be only for post script enabled printers. My office windows pc is printing fine to the RICOH Aficio. The driver on here is a RPCS Printer Driver (v.

The office tech-support will only take care of pc setup - thus I'm on my own when it comes to setting up the printer from my MB! Do I need a RPCS driver for OS X Mountain Lion? And what does RPCS mean?

Any help is most appriciated! RPCS is a Windows only printer language. The specifications for this printer that are listed in their brochure indicate that PCL 6 should also be a standard printer language for this printer. Only PostScript and direct PDF are optional. Obviously, you do not have the PostScript card installed.

You should be able to print using the pxlmono/pxlcolor drivers from OpenPrinting.org. You can download the drivers (be sure to get all three packages) from. Post back with any problems or if you need to use Job Codes.

EDIT: The packages will work fine with Mountain Lion despite the page only listing up to 10.7. Message was edited by: Matt Broughton. Thank you guys.

This helped me a lot! To conclude, the working solution is: Download 3 drivers listed on this page: Direct links to the 3 drivers from page mentioned above are: Foomatic-RIP for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion): - dowload and install this pxlmono 1.9 for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion): - dowload and install this Ghostscript for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.8.x (Mountain Lion): - dowload and install this I think Foomatic-RIP should be installed first, as some of the other packages were asking for it during the installation. In my case, printer was Ricoh Aficio MP C3500. When installing, don't forget to choose the PXL driver/version. Hope this helps!

Matt I've got an similar issue with a C5502 from ricoh. The only ricoh Drivers I have found are Postscript PPD. I need to use copy tracking codes. The config page from the copier under Printer Language says Adobe PDF 1.03, RPCS 3.12.23, PCL 5c 1.07, PCL XL 1.07 I don't see Postscript 3 I only see 'PDF' here is a link to a pdf of the config page Basicly the machine gets the print job in accepts the print code then cancels the print job. If the client has to spend money on an upgrade they will to make it less complicated in setting up the clients. Any help would be greatly appreciated Brian. Apple Footer.

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Preface: I'm a strictly-Windows I.T. Guy, as is everyone in our department. A new graphic designer started today, and brought a shiny new iMac with him. The decision to hire him (and his iMac) came with exactly 0 consultation with I.T. About what we could and could not do for him.

Ricoh Aficio Mp C2000 Driver For Mac

Other than using iMacs in Best Buy to surf the web (to check prices on Amazon; the Macs always have internet access, while the Windows PCs don't necessarily), today is the first time I've even touched OSX. I'm trying to get him connected to a pair of networked multi-function printers. Ricoh (the maker of the printers) supplies only PPD drivers for OSX (and that only up to 10.6); when I install them, either a test print gives me pages and pages of gibberish (for the LPD and HP JetDirect options), or nothing at all (for IPP). I suspect this may be because neither printer has built-in PostScript support; it wasn't needed when we bought them.

When I use the generic PCL driver option, he can print to both printers, and even duplex and choose trays, but there's no option to print in color on the color printer. I suspect that this is just a natural limitation of the generic driver. My question is this: if the manufacturer doesn't make a specific OSX PCL driver for this printer, and if the printer doesn't natively support PS, is there any way to gain access to the printer's full feature-set, or are we limited to what the generic PCL driver allows? Thanks in advance for your patience with someone who has never had (or wanted) anything to do with OSX, and now finds himself utterly out of his element. A brand-new MP C4501 and a 2yr old MP 3351, but it's just the former I'm having trouble with.

Ricoh only provides a single driver package for each device, and it's a PPD file (which, as best I can tell, is a PostScript driver). Do your Ricoh printers have PostScript support? It's an available option on some (and an available model for others), but not something we purchased. EDIT: I did manage to figure out how to install the driver package and go through System Preferences to install the printers.

That's how I met with the failures denoted in the OP. I had the same problem. Their Mac drivers are junk I could never get it to print in anything other than black and white on our color multifunction and it was with that same generic pcl driver. Document your steps thoroughly. I have a feeling it's going to be your reason to either 1.

Get them a windows computer 2. Get a new copier sometimes printer drivers come down via software update and that's the only thing I can suggest that you haven't tried. If you have a service contract on the device I'd push to get someone else to do the work for you. They'll either be able to show you how to make the issue work (and please post how so it shows up online) or you'll have a second opinion on it never working.

Couldn't you install windows in a VM on the iMac and print from there? Only if whatever software he needs the Mac for (I'm guessing some Mac-version of Adobe Premiere or something; we're not producing video here, so I don't think it's Final Cut Pro) can somehow tunnel from OSX into the Windows VM and print using the Windows drivers. And for all I know that's actually possible with Parallels, but 'all I know' about OSX could fit a very, very small book. Like a 1' x 1.25' post-it. Flyingember: I do plan to get the vendor involved (the MFPs are leased and on-maintenance), but I suspect that at least for the color printer, we're screwed, because PS support isn't an add-on, it's a whole different model. Absolute worst case, your designer outputs everything to PDF and has a separate print workflow on a Windows box.

That idea came up, but it's just awkward as hell. The proper solution (since apparently his hiring manager just went out and bought the iMac and Macbook Pro) would've been to see if his workflow itself was Windows-compatible and just buy the necessary software for one of the new Dell machines we have; based on how little the guy knows about OSX (his understanding of it barely surpassed mine this morning), moving to the corporate standard platform wouldn't have been a big blow to his productivity. However, since we've already spent a few grand on the 27' iMac and 15' Macbook Pro, the most cost-effective solution turns out to be dropping the $1K on adding a PostScript module to the Ricoh multi-function, since that's an available option. And if things with this guy don't work out.

Ricoh Aficio Mp C5000 Driver

What better way for me to get to know OSX than by assigning myself a Macbook Pro? A brand-new MP C4501 and a 2yr old MP 3351, but it's just the former I'm having trouble with. Ricoh only provides a single driver package for each device, and it's a PPD file (which, as best I can tell, is a PostScript driver). Do your Ricoh printers have PostScript support? It's an available option on some (and an available model for others), but not something we purchased.

Our units that Macs routinely print to are MP C5000 (with external Fiery RIP) and MP C2050. We have full printer functionality from within the OS X Print dialog windows via the Ricoh drivers. Check to ensure you have the right driver installed: System Preferences Print & Fax Click printer in question to select, then click 'Options & Supplies' Driver tab Print Using.

'Select Printer Software'. From here, use the search to locate the appropriate 'Ricoh' drivers, if they were not already. There will likely be several printer specific options here to toggle, if your hardware supports it.

I had exactly the same problem a month ago. Here is how I solved it: We have an Aficio MP C5000 with the Fiery attachment.

We bought a new iMac with 10.7 installed, and were unable to locate any newer drivers than those for 10.6. I tried installing the 10.6 drivers, but wasn't able to do so because the installer was a PPC-only application. So, I ended up installing 10.6 on an external drive attached to an older Mac that can boot into 10.6. I installed Rosetta, then installed the Ricoh printer driver. I upgraded the OS on the external drive to 10.7.2, then I cloned this disk to the internal drive of the iMac.

Printing works just fine on the iMac now. But I hate Ricoh forever for continuing to ship PPC-only installers. Same problem here with an MP C3300. I gave up on it. Non-PS output is unsupported except by Apple's generic PCL driver and Ricoh ain't ever going to change that. Apple could solve it by adding a generic color PCL driver but who knows if they ever will?

If your company is willing to upgrade the printer to PS that's easily the best solution on several scores. Not least is that a graphic artist really should have a fairly up-to-date PS printer to test output for PS errors and proper color separations so as to avoid expensive problems at the service bureau. PCL wouldn't have been totally adequate even if Ricoh's PCL support were complete. FYI: Apple's PCL drivers are actually using GhostScript as an intermediary, since OS X speaks PDF/PostScript internally. I believe even cheap-o ink-jets do the same thing. I had exactly the same problem a month ago. Here is how I solved it: We have an Aficio MP C5000 with the Fiery attachment.

We bought a new iMac with 10.7 installed, and were unable to locate any newer drivers than those for 10.6. I tried installing the 10.6 drivers, but wasn't able to do so because the installer was a PPC-only application. So, I ended up installing 10.6 on an external drive attached to an older Mac that can boot into 10.6. I installed Rosetta, then installed the Ricoh printer driver.

I upgraded the OS on the external drive to 10.7.2, then I cloned this disk to the internal drive of the iMac. Printing works just fine on the iMac now. But I hate Ricoh forever for continuing to ship PPC-only installers. Now, I don't know much, but I see on the RICOH downloads site drivers for the MP C4501 and C4501 Fiery (which is in use at my main client, with mixed OS X & Windows usage). The drivers displayed include items OS X 10.7 for the MP C4501 and through 10.6 for the MP C4501 Fiery. Works for me. FYI: Apple's PCL drivers are actually using GhostScript as an intermediary, since OS X speaks PDF/PostScript internally.

I believe even cheap-o ink-jets do the same thing. They also use CUPS internally as well (not that well hidden - aside from the shiny GUI, it's 99% the same as CUPS on Linux), so any printer 'supported' by CUPS/Foomatic/etc. Should be able to use those 'drivers' (usually just a PPD file that tells it how to invoke ghostscript). It won't be as easy as 'click to install these drivers' but a competent Linux sysadmin should be able to do it. May not be the Apple Way (TM) but it is a solution. That's one nice thing about OS X, it's UNIX underneath, and if the GUI fails you, you can get what you need from the command line! It still may be better to purchase the PostScript option for your printers.

'drivers' (usually just a PPD file that tells it how to invoke ghostscript) This might be important if you're not familiar with PS printers. PPD = PostScript Printer Description, essentially an ASCII config file that sets up a universal PS driver. The PPD isn't a driver at all in the sense that it doesn't do any executing and all that, which is why Gandalf put 'driver' in quotes.

(Once upon a time I drag-and-dropped a PPD onto a text editor and checked it out. Don't know if that still works. Would think so.) The gibberish that came out of the printers was raw PostScript. The printer's PCL renderer didn't know what to do with it and spat it out as ASCII.

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From that I'm assuming you were able to manually configure an IP address for the printer. Add the PS hardware to the printer and the Mac will be able to discover it automatically like it should.

FYI #2: Macs and PS printers have worked this way since the 80s, with 'LaserWriter' as the universal PS driver, PPDs and automatic discovery. PCL has never been supported. Just noticed this thread is like six months old. Hope the OP got it worked out back then.