Monday, October 13, 2008
Xerox Phaser 4510 in Linux
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!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Debian, Cups & Xerox Phaser (stopped with status 22)
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 22This 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