[UniMacTech] OSX Server 10.5.5 pushing out printers

[Jeff Kirby]

Konica Minolta have not been that fantastic to us here (we have a Bizhub
c352 photocopier/printer/scanner), but we've not used them with our Macs.
They have great support tho! Their documentation is terrible ( and often
wrong ), and while they 'seem' to support everything, its always a little
tricky to get it working just right.

We've been more happy with Ricoh printers on maintenance contracts ( pay per
print, materials 'free'). Their drivers seem to be good.

Another faculty here at Flinders (Social Sciences) use Kyocera and seem to
be very happy, although I don't know if they have a mac server.



-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Gray [mailto:matt.gray at rsise.anu.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2008 1:22 PM
To: jeff.kirby at flinders.edu.au
Subject: Re: [UniMacTech] OSX Server 10.5.5 pushing out printers


We have canon printers here (iR2220 models) - OS X support is  
terrible.  The drivers that we have ended up using are some dodgy  
development version that we acquired somehow - the official drivers  
from Canon didn't recognise all the options of the printer.

Performance is really bad - printing from Safari can take 15 minutes  
per page sometimes... the printers just barf at the postscript that OS  
X sends them.  Other pages print fine. Printing from linux and windows  
seems to be OK.

And as you've found, trying to get them to work with Mac OS Server  
printing doesn't work.

We are thinking of buying Konica Minolta from now on. :-)



On 24/09/2008, at 1:01 PM, Jeff Kirby wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> So, I'm pushing out printers from my Mac Server (OSX 10.5.5), and my  
> Canon printers don't come down. The Ricoh and HP ones do, but the  
> Canon ones don't. Now it would seem this is linked to the fact that  
> the Canon printers in question, are not in the default driver list  
> (in fact, the server fails to even push out the 'Generic PostScript'  
> printers), and extra drivers need to be installed. I've got the  
> drivers in the server and the client, so all should be well but  
> obviously it's not.
>
> It could be that, given Canon no longer supports OSX as an ongoing  
> operating platform (apparently), OSX has in turn not supported new  
> Canons either. Who knows.
>
> Anyone has similar behaviour? The printers are hosted on a Windows  
> 2003 SP2 server, so I'm just pushing out SMB printers. It does not  
> work even if I create an IP printer on the Mac server and put the  
> correct driver in. However, if i say it is a HP 3000 for instance,  
> flawless.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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