I'm trying to get a Dell C1760nw color laser printer to work on the LAN. It's a re-branded Xerox Phaser 6000B and, it turns out, a poor reputation in the cups mail list. Trying to print a test page fails as the printer is not found. Pinging also fails.
The printer is connected to the Netgear GS116 switch and the RJ-45 plugs are snug at both the printer and switch ends. The driver is available as an .rpm file and I used the rpm2tgz filter to translate that to the Slackware package format. Installed it. There are also two drivers (*6000B.ppd.gz and 6000N.ppd.gz). CUPS presented the 6000B when I configured the printer. While there are many Xerox Phaser and other printer drivers seen in the cups printer configuration driver selection widget the only file found with a search for Xerox is /usr/share/ppd/cupsfilters/Fuji_Xerox-DocuPrint_CM305_df-PDF.ppd and there are none when I search for 'xerox.' I copied the gunzipped ppd files to the cupsfilter subdirectory but the issue seems to be hardware related: can't ping the printer by IP address or host name. Could the cat5 cable be the problem or is there a way I can determine just why the printer is not seen on the network? Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
