[gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[Stefán István]

Hello!
We have a printer stated in $subject, and looking for a cups driver for it.
Does anyone know which driver can we use for it?

Thanks,
Istvan
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Re: [gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[Helmut Jarausch]

On  8 Sep, Stefán István wrote:
> Hello!
> We have a printer stated in $subject, and looking for a cups driver for it.
> Does anyone know which driver can we use for it?
> 

Just try

http://www.ricoh-support.com/enduser/home/default.asp?langID=1
Select "multifunctional products"  and  Aficio FX16
This finally to a page where you can download the
'Printer & Scanner Drivers and Utility' for WINDOWS.
Download the .exe file e.g. for Windows XP.
Most probably it's a zip archive. Try (on Linux)
unzip -v <this .exe file>
If it works, you only need the  .ppd file which is an
ASCII file.  Copy this to your cups directory
probably  /etc/cups/ppd

IMPORTANT: send a complaint to Ricoh for not supporting
           Linux directly!


Helmut.



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D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[Stefán István]

péntek 08 szeptember 2006 12.31 dátummal Helmut Jarausch ezt írta:
> On  8 Sep, Stefán István wrote:
> > Hello!
> > We have a printer stated in $subject, and looking for a cups driver for 
it.
> > Does anyone know which driver can we use for it?
> > 
> 
> Just try
> 
> http://www.ricoh-support.com/enduser/home/default.asp?langID=1
> Select "multifunctional products"  and  Aficio FX16
> This finally to a page where you can download the
> 'Printer & Scanner Drivers and Utility' for WINDOWS.
> Download the .exe file e.g. for Windows XP.
> Most probably it's a zip archive. Try (on Linux)
> unzip -v <this .exe file>
> If it works, you only need the  .ppd file which is an
> ASCII file.  Copy this to your cups directory
> probably  /etc/cups/ppd
> 
> IMPORTANT: send a complaint to Ricoh for not supporting
>            Linux directly!
>

Thanks for the help, I downloaded the exe file, but it is not a zip archive, I 
can't uncompress it.
I tried to execute it via wine, then it starts to uncompress itself, but I 
don't find any .ppd file in the directory where it uncompress itself.

Istvan

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Re: [gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[Thomas Kear]

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On Friday 08 September 2006 11:06 pm, Stefán István wrote:
> Thanks for the help, I downloaded the exe file, but it is not a zip
> archive, I can't uncompress it.
> I tried to execute it via wine, then it starts to uncompress itself, but I
> don't find any .ppd file in the directory where it uncompress itself.

Try app-arch/cabextract.  A considerable number of windows format installers 
that aren't .zip archives are .cab instead.

I looked at linuxprinting.org and saw '0/3 paperweight' for the FX-10 [1], 
didn't hold high hopes.  Hopefully you have some luck with yours.

Thomas Kear
thomas.kear@gmail.com

[1] http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Ricoh-Afico_FX10

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Re: [gentoo-user] driver for Ricoh Aficio FX16

[Stefán István]

péntek 08 szeptember 2006 13.34 dátummal Thomas Kear ezt írta:
> On Friday 08 September 2006 11:06 pm, Stefán István wrote:
> > Thanks for the help, I downloaded the exe file, but it is not a zip
> > archive, I can't uncompress it.
> > I tried to execute it via wine, then it starts to uncompress itself, but I
> > don't find any .ppd file in the directory where it uncompress itself.
> 
> Try app-arch/cabextract.  A considerable number of windows format installers 
> that aren't .zip archives are .cab instead.
> 
> I looked at linuxprinting.org and saw '0/3 paperweight' for the FX-10 [1], 
> didn't hold high hopes.  Hopefully you have some luck with yours.

Okay, I managed to uncompress it with cabextract, but it does'n contain any 
ppd file.

István

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