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I had struggled in the past already with a Xerox Phaser 4500; now a new printer, a Xerox Phaser 4510 was brought at work and so I was already worried about its installation with cups, in kubuntu, since no driver is provided by default by cups.

However, this time was quite easy, since the Xerox site provides some new drivers that can be downloaded freely here.

You just need to untar the package and use the right .ppd file, and in my case it is xrx4510dt.ppd.

I installed this printer with the CUPS web interface (with the configuration procedure of KDE it failed to correctly set this printer, don't know why), and when you come to select the model you provide the above ppd file.

Everything then worked like a charm!

Pubblicato da betto a 11:21 AM 4 commenti

Etichette: cups, kubuntu, linux, xerox

I had previously posted on this blog about this Xerox printer, a Phaser 4500 DT (by using the drivers found on their website). I had solved a problem under Gentoo, but now I've experienced other problems under Debian, after I upgraded these drivers downloaded from Xerox website.

By taking a look at the log /var/log/cups/error_log, I found this line again:

PID xxxx stopped with status 22

This time the problem was with the wrong filter used in the ppd of the printer, in particular this line of XRX_Phaser_4500dx.ppd:

*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstoxeroxps"

which needs to be changed into

*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"

Now everything seems to work :-)

Pubblicato da betto a 3:18 PM 3 commenti

Etichette: cups, debian, xerox

I've been using the Linux distribution Gentoo for a long while now and I've always enjoyed (and in spite of what I read on some web sites, I found it the most performant distribution). Packages are installed by compiling sources and thus it might take quite a long time to set up or upgrade a system, but then it's quite easy to maintain.

For some days I've been struggling with Cups when I was trying to install a Xerox printer, a Phaser 4500 DT (by using the drivers found on their website): everything is installed fine but when I tried to print something, nothing happened :-(

By taking a look at the log /var/log/cups/error_log, I found this line:

PID 7265 stopped with status 22

By searching on Google I didn't find much, but someone mentioned a similar problem due to missing footmatic packages...

Well, installing foomatic with

emerge foomatic

solved everything :-)

I hope this avoids some headache to other facing the same problem!

Pubblicato da betto a 1:00 PM 4 commenti

Etichette: cups, foomatic, gentoo

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