G'day,
I bought this smallish cheap colour laser printer as it had a Linux driver provided by the manufacturer - my other, older colour laser, a Tally-Genicom 8108N (re-badged Lexmark) didn't, so when the Tally's toner ran out, I got the fujixerox for about a third the cost of new toner for the 8108N.
The Fujixerox is networked via an ethernet connection to my home network and works very well with her-indoors' Windows 7 and XP laptops as well as mostly with my all-PuppyLinux desktop.
After my complaining earlier in this thread of a few problems with the Fujixerox and some newer Pups, rcrsn51 put together a pet of the C1110 driver from Fujixerox and one for the CUPS-PDF driver which I had liked as the best pdf creator but which I did not see in every Pup.
I have now tested the fujixerox pet in my desktop's Fulls and in some Frugals to see where or when there is a printer problem.
Note that, due to thinking my problems were Cups-related and that previously I had good printing with Cups-1.3.11, I had installed a Cups-1.3.11 pet into most of my Full Pups in an effort to get consistant printing. I was using a self-made pet of the fujixerox driver so was happy for rcrsn51 to provide his version for my new appraisal.
In the attached pdf (made in Dpup-Exprimo-5.x.8 Full, Cups-1.3.11, with CUPS-PDF from LibreOffice, then zipped) is a table of results for the Pups I tried, the Install type, the Cups version the Pup had, and if it printed off a test page after installing the fujixeox pet, and if it did not print to start with, if it did after I replaced the original CUPS with 1.3.11. There's a Comments column at the right. I haven't tried any 64-bit Pups.
In summary, all the Frugals I tried worked as they were, with rcrsn51's fujixerox pet and his CUPS-pdf pet (when it was not already there). All CUPS versions were good Frugally.
I only had problems in some of the Full installs with their original Cups. The Print Testpage error messages from CUPS were either something like "No pstopdffx ......... failed" or "file not opened. /tmp/tmp-fxpdf......;print file sent, waiting for printer to finish." Cancelling the job and trying to again print a test page still failed to print anything.
When I installed Cups-1.3.11 into the problem Pups, these Fulls then printed OK after installing the fujixerox pet
. I also needed to add the CUPS-pdf pet as the changing the CUPS removed any pre-installed printer driver.
The Frugal versions of the problematic Full Pups all printed OK without needing to change the CUPS version - which I found strange. If it matters, I have been manually installing recent Frugals from mounted downloaded isos (no CD involved) and then the Full from the Frugal using the Universal Installer to get files from the Frugal's own subdirectory (I'm really saving on those CDs).
In some cases, the initial CUPS opening screen would show one version number on its tab but then clicking to start the 'Add Printer' would open a tab with a different CUPS version number - the page formatting looked correct for both tabs (1.3.11 is quite different to the 1.4.x series) - another oddity.
The good results for me with my computer-printer set-up are that:
1) rcrsn51's pets worked with CUPS-1.3.11 in every Pup I tried
2) if a new Pup with a particular 1.4.x CUPS doesn't happen to work then I have only to install CUPS-1.3.11 and I should have regained printability (fated being tempted
).
Thanks to rcrsn51, and I hope this may help anyone else with a Fujixerox printer.
David S.