How to print from Mavericks to an old Xerox M24 Workcentre?

Question

Dear All,
We have a Xerox Workcentre M24 printer-fax-scanner at our office.
Unfortunately Xerox stopped supporting this printer for Mac OS X from version 10.3 when they still provided a beta driver. This is particularly unfortunate since we are still under contract with Xerox - so we must keep the equipment even if they do not provide updated drivers for it :-(
Although Xerox states that the M24 is not compatible with recent Mac OS X I myself am so far perfectly able to print from my computer running Mavericks. I suppose this happens because I already had the drivers installed and working back in Leopard and then upgraded to Snow Leopard, Mountain Lioin and finally to Mavericks allways keeping the abillity to print to it.
Why am I bothering you since I can print? Because no one else at my office can!  Newer Macs and even older that did not previously installed the drivers cannot print since  there are no driver installers at all.
Xerox does provide a Global printer driver with limited functionallities but not for Mac, only Windows! :-(
Apple does provide a Mavericks printer drivers package but the Xerox M24 is not included.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Left without options so far I was wondering if it would be accpetable to copy one or more printer/system folders from my computer and bluntly paste them onto my colleagues Macs. If you think this won't create havoc on their system, and that it actually might work can you help me directing me to which folder(s) to copy?
Much obliged,
-- joão

Answer 1

You aren't without options!
I don't recommend copying files.
From the specs from Xerox:
PDLs: PCL6 and PCL5e emulations, optional Adobe® PostScript® 3™
So, first question is do you have the postscript option installed?
If not, no problem - this printer emulates an HP laserjet with the Page Description Language "PCL."
You should try this:
1) in Print & Scan prefs click " + " (add), and select IP printer > HP Jetdirect/socket protocol.
2) Enter the printer's IP address.
3) For driver, select "Generic PCL"
Now, this will only print black & white, but is a good test to see if it works with your Mac.
Report your success.