Saturday, September 12, 2009

Xerox 6110MFP and Snow Leopard - WORKS!

I had a friend install Snow Leopard, Apples new Operating System.
It killed his Xerox MFP 6110 Machine.

I make this long story very short.

Leave the current printer in the system.
Go add the printer again, this time making a NEW QUEUE for that printer using the OLD driver. This is the final resolution to making my Xerox 6110 MFP work correctly.
Once I had this working, I shared it out on the network and the rest of the 10.6 computers could print without any problems.

When recreating the printer - it kept using the same queue which led me to believe it was using the old or incorrect driver - this is why I say make a new queue with the old driver - as it showed the original driver as the one being used - and it worked like a champ. It would auto-add the other printer on reboot, although it still would not print correctly. Something to do with the specific Queue itself.

This is what I had done previous to the above mentioned:

It did not like the drivers previously installed and would not print.

I deleted all the printers, readded the printer using the built in driver (appears it copied it over from OSX 10.5 into 10.6, although the first time you check yoru printer - it tells you that it needs an updated printer driver).

I followed the steps here:
http://techblog.lucidillusion.org/2009/09/04/xerox-phaser-6120-on-mac-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/

You will have to goto the website listed and download the custom PPD driver.
Once you have downloaded this, make sure its somewhere you can find it - and if Safari or anything else appended a .TXT to it, take it off.

Go back to add a new printer, this time after it tries to autoselect the printer, change it and go load the custom PPD you just downloaded.

I did notice that the icon of the printer changed and that it does print a little different - but all appears to be working as it should.

When recreating the printer - it kept using the same queue which led me to believe it was using the old or incorrect driver - this is why I say make a new queue with the old driver - as it showed the original driver as the one being used - and it worked like a champ. It would auto-add the other printer on reboot, although it still would not print correctly. Something to do with the specific Queue itself.


IF NONE OF THIS FIXES YOUR PROBLEM...
I suggest trying to install the Rosetta app that comes on the Snow Leopard DVD.
Follow the threads on Apple or do a google search on it.

This is the original Apple thread I was reading:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2144674&tstart=1