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turtles
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 Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2022 3:48 pm Post subject: Connecting Gentoo (cups) to a xerox 7225 |
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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:
| Code: | 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
| Quote: | 9.2.2 rp
This key is used to specify the queue name. |
and running the command
| Code: | | 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.
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Mistwolf
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| 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? |
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turtles
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Mistwolf
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| Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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turtles
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| Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Mistwolf wrote: | 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.
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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.
| Mistwolf wrote: |
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
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