Connecting Gentoo (cups) to a xerox 7225

[turtles]

Greetings all I am attempting to connect my minimal gentoo setup to a xerox 7225 (large office printer / copier)
I grabbed the .deb package and manually installed the ppd in a folder in /usr/share/ppd/xerox and cups and see the ppd and configures the printer.
however I can't seem to connect to it. I am on the same lan network as the printer and there are no special rules on the printer as other boxes connect.
nmap showes me the following ports on the printer:

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PORT     STATE SERVICE
80/tcp   open  http
443/tcp  open  https
515/tcp  open  printer
631/tcp  open  ipp
9100/tcp open  jetdirect

port 80 and 443 are web interfaces to the printer where you can upload a file to print manually or do scanning, so I imagine cups needs to use 515, 631, or 9100.
However when I try ipp://192.168.0.10, http://192.168.0.10:631 http://192.168.0.10:9100 http://192.168.0.10:515 etc I can't print a test page.
I checked a working ubuntu box's config and its using a bla.bla.bla.ipp._tcp.local address which I also tried and does not work.
Error logs dont give a clue either
And advice on connecting to these huge office printers would be appreciated
Thanks in advance

EDIT looking at the specs for the bonjour protocol

9.2.2 rp
This key is used to specify the queue name.

and running the command

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avahi-browse --all -t -r | grep -ne 'rp='

I was able to discovered "rp=ipp/print"
so with socket://192.168.0.10/ipp/print and the generic Generic PCL Laser Printer I can print a test page.
So now I just need to figure out whats wrong with their ppd file so I can print in color.

[Mistwolf]

If you look at the ppd file, it references 2 xerox cups filters (which are included in the .deb file). Did you install them too?

[turtles]

Well with some fiddling around I got color working with a cups ppd named drvless.ppd I also switched from socket:// to http:// and since this printer is at a static ipV4 I got http://192.168.0.10/ipp/print to work, instead of all that dnssd avhai tcp.local garbage.
The key thing for printing to a xerox office printer from linux is having that ipp/print uri.
hope this helps save someone else some time.
Also it turns out the .deb was not needed.
Cheers

[Mistwolf]

Actually, if your 7225 has the Postscript option, you can use a generic PS driver instead of the PCL driver. That is what I use for my Xerox printer that has the Postscript option, works just fine.

To see if your copier has the PS option installed, print a configuration page, and at the bottom of the page, if it has the PS option, there will be a PS icon. No PS option, no PS icon.

And for the port, use socket://<IP ADDRESS>:9100

[turtles]

Actually, if your 7225 has the Postscript option, you can use a generic PS driver instead of the PCL driver. That is what I use for my Xerox printer that has the Postscript option, works just fine.

Oddly the xerox I am working with does not have postscript. Seems like a strange thing to charge extra for when it can just be connected to a cups server that supports postscript and it has so many other features.

And for the port, use socket://<IP ADDRESS>:9100

That port did not fully work for me, It did not return messages from the printer.
http://<IP ADDRESS>/ipp/print
does work fine

Cheers