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That gives the whole file the windows system sent. In wireshark, select the first packet to this port and right click on “follow TCP stream”. Looking at the trace file in wireshark, the windows driver uses the HP Jetdirect port (9100). First step is to use tcpdump to track the communication between the windows machine and the printer:Īnd then print something. Now to get the thing working under linux. Followed the redirection directions with ghostview, ghostscript and redmon and successfully attach the printer to Linux.
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Install the windows virtual machine with the Ricoh driver and use the tool to program scan to email amazingly enough it all works correctly (it even scans in colour).
When the printer arrives, it turns out it has a web interface (yay) but you can’t program scan destinations with it (and without scan destinations, it won’t scan) … bummer. Bummer, but you can’t have everything for US$60. The only other annoyance is it doesn’t do duplex (either for scanning or printing). Fortunately, there is a way of running it (using KVM instead of VirtualBox) providing you have a windows virtual machine, so that’s the initial plan. Looks like I’ll be writing a driver when it arrives.
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Further googling around for the printer and linux drivers (and even DDST, the Ricoh name for their direct rendering protocol on linux) yields nothing.
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Google confirms it can scan to pdf (via file share or email), the only drawback is that the printer engine is “windows only” (one of those direct render on the system and send to printer ones).
Investigating lasers, the cheapest multi-function seems to be a Ricoh Aficio SP204 N (the N means netowrk connected, which is nice) for US$60, which is a bargain, plus it’s a laser. Vowing never to purchase another inkjet printer as long as I live, it’s time to find a cheap multi-function laser (did I mention the scanner function on the HP won’t work either now because when it gets this error it locks every function). Of course, since it’s a UK purchased printer and I’m now living in the US, HP support “cannot help”. Trying to clean it out just gets ink all over the desk and some important papers. Sure enough the entire inside is awash with a substance more costly than liquid gold … plus it’s now all over my shirt and trousers. This turns out mostly to mean my ink cartridges are leaking. Three months after replacement, the whole thing died with a call HP technicians error. Purchasing new ones (it’s colour so I need four) turned out to be an arm and a leg (or 2x what the printer cost to buy in the first place). Unfortunately, this is an inkjet printer and about three months ago the initial cartridges (which are deliberately lightly loaded) ran out of ink. I thought I solved it three years ago by getting a nice network printer (HP OfficeJet Pro 8600) which spoke postscript and could scan to folder (provided you have samba installed). Printing and scanning has always been the bane of Linux.
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