Color printing to Ricoh multifunction with no postscript support.

[FritzsCorner]

I know this is a long shot, but I thought I would see if anyone else here has encountered this issue.

Recently I discovered that our Ricoh MP C4502A Printers can no longer print in Color via a PXL printer driver. In order to print in color we would need PostScript support for every printer in our company. Unfortunately, Ricoh discontinued the PostScript Add-On so it is no longer available to purchase. Up until 10.11, we were able to print in Color using Ghostscript GPL, foomatic-rip, and pxlmono. Apparently, this will no longer work in 10.11. I have been able to get b&w printing working using Gutenprint, but color printing is important so it’s not a viable solution.

I have been referencing this thread hoping that someone else has found a solution: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4206876?start=75&tstart=0

Like I said, this is a long shot but thought I would throw it out there in case someone else has any advice.

Thanks for reading!

[FritzsCorner · Accepted solution]

I was able to get a working solution and thought I would share my findings. The solution involved using a Generic PCL 6 PXLcolor driver and setting the PrintoutMode feature to Normal.

Example script below.

https://github.com/TheFritz01/Ricoh-MFD_10.11_Color_Print_Support/blob/master/MapRicohColorPrinter.s...