Alternative printer driver for Fuji Xerox DocuPrint P205b?

Question

Is there a driver for a similar printer that also happens to work for the Fuji Xerox P205 b?

I have tried the generic PCL 5 driver and the generic PostScript driver but they do not work. Any other suggestions? I'm on 10.10 (Maverick).

Update The Fuji Xerox website has a Linux driver download as an .iso image. When you open the image you will see 3 drivers. One for HP UX for the PA-RISC and another for Solaris SPARC and one for RedHat x86, x86-64, etc. I picked the RedHat for my computer. It invokes RPM so install that first. The installation script crashes.

Solution 1

foo2hbpl contains driver of p105b/p205b .

The website is http://foo2hbpl.rkkda.com/

I tested it in archlinux.

Works very smoothly with cups.

Enjoy it.

Solution 2

Thanks Broiyan.

Dang! I feared that was the only way to get this printer going. I have sent an e-mail to Xerox Support. I'm hoping they can give some guidance on how to get it working. I'll post again once I have an answer from them.

Thanks again, KN

OK, here is the response I got from Xerox. It's not very helpful :(

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Hello,

This is a GDI printer and is not compatible with Linux and UNIT operating systems.

Regards, Hamed Hala Customer Support

Fuji Xerox Printers Beacon Business Park, Fuji Xerox House 14A Rodborough Road, FRENCHS FOREST NSW 2086 AUSTRALIA

T: 1800 811 177 F: [phone] Email : [email protected] Web : www.fujixerox.com.au

Solution 3

install the package alien from your repository, it will allow you to convert the rpm package to a .deb file.

instead of installing the newly created deb package, extract the files. with dpkg -x nameOfConvertedPackage.deb hopefully it contains the stuff you need when selecting printer driver from the intall wizzard.

Comments

[Knowledge Cube]

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[psukys]

rather a heavy answer, isn't it?

[drevicko]

Well, with Ubuntu 12.04, it provides a driver for my DocuPrint cp105 b, but alas, they are not friends - I only get blank pages and flashing exclamation marks on my printer ):

[H2ONaCl]

Tested with Ubuntu 12.04.

[H2ONaCl]

Tested with Ubuntu 14.04.