/ricoh-sp100

CUPS driver for RICOH Aficio SP printers

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What is this?

Workarounds for some Ricoh SP printers not working on Linux. Fork of abandoned https://github.com/madlynx/ricoh-sp100 repository.

I only added some PPDs and other features proposed by other people (https://github.com/madlynx/ricoh-sp100/issues and https://github.com/madlynx/ricoh-sp100/pulls). Also refactored the code, especially in pstoricohddst-gdi.

Installation

  1. Open the terminal and clone the repository from Github:

     git clone https://github.com/mishta-real/ricoh-sp100.git
 cd ricoh-sp100

  2. Execute check-requirements.sh script. It will check whether all required packages are installed and available or not:

     ./check-requirements.sh

  3. Install missing packages with your package manager or manually.

  4. If you have models Aficio SP 100, SP 112, SP 202SN or SP 204, then copy pstoricohddst-gdi into directory with CUPS filters (usually /usr/lib/cups/filter):

     sudo cp pstoricohddst-gdi /usr/lib/cups/filter

    If you have SP 210 or SP 211, copy rastertolilo instead:

     sudo cp rastertolilo /usr/lib/cups/filter

  5. Make sure the filter has permissions of 0555 and is owned by root:root:

     sudo chmod 0555 /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoricohddst-gdi
 sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoricohddst-gdi

    or:

     sudo chmod 0555 /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolilo
 sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertolilo

  6. Make sure the printer is connected to the computer and turned on, then configure it with CUPS Web Interface: open your browser, type 'localhost:631', go to 'Administration' > 'Add Printer'. Find your printer and choose it, then press 'Continue'. After that, provide a PPD file with the name of your printer from 'ppd' directory. Finally, press 'Add Printer', then 'Set Default Options'.

  7. As you finish step 6, go to the 'Printers' > Your printer > 'Maintenance' > 'Print test page'. If the printer is printing and the page is not blank, you configured it correctly.

  8. If the printer does not print after the first job, then you should try to repeat the steps described here (replace <queue> with the name of your printer):

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems#USB_printer_does_not_print_or_prints_garbage

    If the issue persists, you need to reset the USB port the printer is connected to. In terminal, go into the repository and execute:

     sudo ./resetusb.sh

    Then try to run the job again.

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