ricoh 6000 printers using vms7.3-2 and dcps

[P Muralidhar Kini]

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Regards,
Murali

[Hoff]

If you go outside what's listed in the DCPS SPD, you're going to use a legacy Unix printing path, or you'd better make sure you have a Postscript printer and some time to test and the budget to "be wrong" about whether the printer will actually work (or not) via the DCPS unrecognized-printer mechanisms, or even via lpr/lpd or other ASCII-based printing.

DCPS will not work with the Ricoh Aficio MP 6000 series printer.

This is not a Postscript printer.

What text Ketan was looking at is unclear, but following a few links around at the Ricoh site will find a requirement for an add-on OS-specific driver to get Postscript or Postscript emulation to work. Some research indicates this is not hardware or firmware installed into the printer but packaged as a driver for specific operating systems, which generally means the Postscript is host-based, which generally means "no VMS compatibility".

HP DCPS and other HP VMS software also lack support for HP PCL, which means you're limited to a queue relayed through a box with support for the printer, or ASCII-based printing using lpd or analogous paths.

You might get IPP with a third-party IP stack, but not AFAIK with TCP/IP Services stack.

Many low-cost and non-departmental printers now or will use host-rendering schemes, as are a few of the mid- and upper-end printers. HP has various similar printers here; where the host performs conversions and rendering in what printer vendors call a "driver". These printers will generally not work with VMS, nor with various flavors of Unix, HP-UX, Solaris or Linux.