![]() I'm not familiar with what a Language Monitor is/does. ![]() I have tried turning on/off bidirectional communication and it seems to have no impact on the behavior of the driver. Unfortunately, I don't have much experience modifying PPDs.ĭo you know if there is any way to change the setup on the Windows server that would allow it to give the Ricoh driver the information it is requesting from the printer? I'm looking into how the PPD for the device might be altered to stop the driver from making the request. I don't see any options in the printer setup to allow for this to be disabled. The Ricoh driver looks like it is requesting supply status from the printer and the Windows server doesn't now how to respond to that request. Since Microsoft removed Appletalk protocols. There may be some network setting in the TCP/IP stack that could be changed but I've never set anything for Mac printing The next thing to do would be to gather network traffic and determine if there are latencies with the network responses and syncs. If the control is greyed out there is no language monitor On the ports tab of the printers properties, verify the Enable bidirectional. I doubt the Windows print share has a Language Monitor associated but see if it does. If there is some sort of configuration option on the Mac that will disable whatever this software is, that's going to be the first step. Implies some sort software installed on the Mac that is interpreting ACKs or data from the printer that is unexpected since you have established an LPR/LPD session to the Windows server rather than directly to the device. When sending prints to the printer they hang in the print queue on the Mac with the status "Printing - Copying print data". If anyone wants to spread the word that Ricoh is not an Apple friendly company and should be avoided. If anyone can provide some asisstance in configuring this correctly your assistance would be appreciated. They did offer to sell me an annual network service contract to help figure out why it doesn't work, but would not gaurentee that they would I contacted Ricoh and they said they don't support using their printers through a Windows print server on Mac OS X. I've tried vaious versions of the Windows drivers on the print server to see if they have any impact, and they all produce the same result. If I leave the job in the print queue long enough (20-30 minutes) the job will evenutually complete. The problem definitely seems to be between Mac OS X using the Ricoh driver and Windows print server. I can print to the Windows print server from Window 7 without issue. I can print to the Windows print server with the generic postscript driver no problem. I can print directly to the printer without issue usng IP printing. The behavior is consistant across various Mac OS X versions 10.7.x and 10.8.x. The behavior is consistant across Apple hardware. Same configuration we use on several dozen successfully printing HP printers. The Windows server is configured with LPR services enabled. I have a Ricoh Aficio SP c830dn printer that I need to print to our Windows 2008 Server R2 print server. This may be the wrong place to post this, but I can't seem to find a more appropriate place.
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