New Xerox Phaser 6180 and OS 9

I had to replace a Tectronix Phaser and I just got the new one, a Xerox Phaser 6180DN. It is on a LAN at my office (University Medical School) where I use a newer Mac running OS X plus a mixture of older Macs running OS 9 and some PeeCees. I had no problem with OS X in linking to the printer by ethernet, but in OS 9 it does not show up in the chooser using LaserWriter 8. Xerox does not have drivers for this printer under OS 9. Any suggestions?

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Hi,
I'm trying to connect a xerox phaser 6180 to my network. I have a macbook air running Lion and a macbook pro running Snow Leopard. I have an airport express base station 802.11g being used to extend my network which is run off a time capsule (802.11n 3rd generation). I have tried connecting the printer to the airport express via a USB cable and also via an ethernet cable. The laptops do not seem to be able to find the printer in this set up. Any suggestions?
I have tried connecting the printer directly to the macbook pro and it prints fine so it is not the printer but must be the network configuration - or it is not compatible.
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Hi,
I'm trying to connect a xerox phaser 6180 to my network. I have a macbook air running Lion and a macbook pro running Snow Leopard. I have an airport express base station 802.11g being used to extend my network which is run off a time capsule (802.11n 3rd generation). I have tried connecting the printer to the airport express via a USB cable and also via an ethernet cable. The laptops do not seem to be able to find the printer in this set up. Any suggestions?
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Hi there,
Please can somebody help?
I bought a new imac the other day and connected my three year old Xerox Phaser 6110 printer, and to my shock, it won't print.
Thanks to this forum, I found out that I'm not the only one with the same problem.
Now, I've read some of the topics on what to do, and I've tried two of them, but I still can't print. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
I went onto Xerox's website and followed their instructions - installed Rosetta, and got to a point where I couldn't continue. It said; "right click, and ...". I can't remember what it said I had to do, but, my mouse does not give me the option to 'right click', so I had to abort that method.
I then tried a method I found on here - inserted the Xerox driver disc again, loaded the driver, clicked on 'System Preferences' and 'Printers', and tried to add the printer again, but it wouldn't let me. Maybe I was doing it wrong?
HELP!
I really don't want to go buy a new printer

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I tried to reboot computer, connect the usb cable. Try an other usb cable but it's not working...
In my system profiler my printer is not appearing. I have this:
I tried to connect a usb key in my computer and its working... so usb port is ok :-)
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Good evening!
Since 2 days I am trying desperately to install the printer of my dad (xerox phaser 3100) on my macbook 10.6. In fact we did the upgrade on snow leopard without knowing that the printer would not work anymore.
Before writing here I made some research on internet and I found this web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/forums/forum/4358/topic/3407337
The Phaser 3100 is a GDI printer. The Gutenprint drivers do not support such printers.You should be able to print with the Xerox drivers provided for OS X 10.4. To make the drivers work in OS X 10.6, install the drivers from Xerox. Then in a Terminal window (/Applications/Terminal) run the following commands--sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/Xerox/sudo chmod 775 /Library/Printers/Xerox/filter/rastertoprinter You will have to force any 64 bit applications to run in 32 bit mode to get the full functionality for the drivers.
Of course I went on the website of xerox to download drivers for 10.4... but when I tried to install it I got a error message saying that the package was compiled for 10.4 version...
If you would have a solution it would be great!
Thanks in advance and have a great easter!

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jmchugh, Welcome to the discussion area!
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Not here.
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Xerox no longer provides drivers. I've tried using the Gutenprint CUPS driver. There is one labeled Xerox Phaser 4400N, and it can communicate with the printer (shows the toner cartridge capacity), but I cannot print even the test page from the Mac (the Print window says it's composed 67% of the page, but doesn't ever proceed to print anything.
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Folksong wrote:
Your best choice is to download the ppd for your printer from the OpenPrinting site. Put the ppd file in the /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ directory at the root of your hard drive. This ppd is actually supplied by Xerox. That is all you need. You don't need any other software from OpenPrinting, Gutenprint, or Xerox.
Thanks for your very helpful suggestion (even including a link to the needed ppd file!
Unfortunately, it only almost worked. I placed the file in the location you suggested, went to the Printers and Scanners pane in System Preferences, added an IPP printer, and the Phaser 4400N popped up in the "Select Software" list, displaying the correct printer icon, the correct installed RAM, and the correct hardware options list. Just like old times
However, when I attempted to print a test page from the Mac, the dialog box reported "Printing", then "Connected to Printer" but the job didn't complete. Watching the LED on the printer when I tried this a second time, I noticed that it flashed red, then amber, and as it did so the printer went through a "Power On Self Test" before returning to a green LED and the default monitor window message saying "Ready to Print."
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I can print to it from Win 7
I can even print to it from my Mac Yosemite OS if I add the printer as a "Windows Printer", but then I need to log in to my main user account on my Windows VM (VMware Fusion 7.1.0), but that only works while the VM is running!
I tried reseting the Printing System on the Mac (control-click in the Printers List in the Printers and Scanners Sys Prefs pane, select "reset printing system", add the printer again. Same behavior.
I know the Mac OS is communicating with the printer (I can ping it, various network utilities "find" it, I can't add the printer if it's powered down, and it correctly reports the status of the fuser and toner cartridge). However, each job that doesn't print generates an "Unable to get printer status" message in the Console log, and a "Stopping unresponsive job" message if I delete the job from the Printing queue.
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Again, thanks so much for your very helpful suggestion.
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Leopard, InDesign CS2, and Xerox Phaser 6120 Broken

I just updated to Leopard andexcept for a few minor burps, most everything is working except printing from InDesign CS2. When I try to print to my Xerox Phaser 6120, in the printer queue window I get the error:
/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pictwpstops failed
If I look in the CUPS logs, I see this:
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Adding start banner page "none".
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Adding job file of type application/pictwps.
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Adding end banner page "none".
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Queued on "Phaser6120_94_D4_50" by "tom".
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Started filter /usr/libexec/cups/filter/pictwpstops (PID 598)
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Started filter /Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops (PID 599)
\[29/Nov/2007:23:57:35 -0500] [Job 39] Started backend /usr/libexec/cups/backend/mdns (PID 601)
E \[29/Nov/2007:23:57:38 -0500] [Job 39] can't create PictWPSDoc from `/private/var/spool/cups/d00039-001'.ERROR during execution of pictwpstops. Error number -9783
E \[29/Nov/2007:23:57:38 -0500] PID 599 (/Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops) crashed on signal 10!
I \[29/Nov/2007:23:57:38 -0500] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
E \[29/Nov/2007:23:57:38 -0500] PID 598 (/usr/libexec/cups/filter/pictwpstops) stopped with status 1!
I \[29/Nov/2007:23:57:38 -0500] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
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I seem to be having the same problem with my Xerox Phaser 6120 although it is not application specific. xc6120pstops crashes even if I just print a test page. Generic postscript printer works fine. I've managed to set the printer default to use the duplexer via the web interface, but I'd still rather have full access to the driver.
The Crashreporter log (which oddly reports that xc6120pstops is PPC even though it should be Intel) indeed shows a crash, but I don't know how to interpret any of the detailed information:
Process: xc6120pstops [6211]
Path: /Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops
Identifier: xc6120pstops
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: cupsd [6156]
Date/Time: 2008-03-05 22:59:12.691 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0x812a5bc1 0 + 2167036865
Thread 1:
0 ??? 0x800bb9e6 0 + 2148252134
1 ??? 0x800c31dc 0 + 2148282844
2 translate 0xb818b6ea CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 202802
3 ??? 0x800ecc55 0 + 2148453461
4 ??? 0x800ecb12 0 + 2148453138
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0xb813d020 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0xffffffff
edi: 0xb81d8794 esi: 0xb81d8770 ebp: 0x8080d180 esp: 0xb7fffacc
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0x812a5bc1 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000
Binary Images:
0xb8000000 - 0xb81d7fe7 translate ??? (???) /usr/libexec/oah/translate
Translated Code Information:
Rosetta Version: 21.01
Args: Hermione 44 AK testprint.ps 1 APDInputSlot= pserrorhandler-requested=standard nocollate com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMColorMatchingMode..n.=0 com.apple.print.JobInfo.PMJobName=testprint.ps APColorMatchingMode=APApplicationColorMatching job-uuid=urn:uuid:1b35ef40-ebf4-379b-7024-3c89d9a29659
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Thread 0: Crashed (0xb7fffacc, 0x812a5bc1)
0x00003088: /Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops : _main + 2172
0x000022fc: /Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops : __start + 392
0x8fc01048: /usr/lib/dyld : _dyldstart + 60
0x00000000: /Library/Printers/Xerox/Filters/xc6120pstops : + 0
PPC Thread State
srr0: 0x00000000 srr1: 0x00000000 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0xXXXXXXXX xer: 0x00000000 lr: 0x00003088 ctr: 0x900210c0
r00: 0x00003088 r01: 0xbfffc900 r02: 0x0000000e r03: 0x00000000
r04: 0x00003ee4 r05: 0xa0022d34 r06: 0xbfffc920 r07: 0x00000012
r08: 0x00000008 r09: 0x00000000 r10: 0x90061160 r11: 0x8fc33c48
r12: 0x900210c0 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x00000000 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x00000000 r25: 0x00000000 r26: 0xbffff010 r27: 0x0000001c
r28: 0x00000006 r29: 0xbffff014 r30: 0xbfffc900 r31: 0x00002834

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The Printer is connected to one Router (PC Based) and from the Router one other computer is connected (Windows PC). I can talk to the computer and do test pages and everything but when i try to print anything from my computer it says the Job was completed when it hasn't printed a thing.
Please Help. If i have to re-install the OS will i lose ALL files i have saved??
Please tell me step by step for i am a novice.
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Please Help. If i have to re-install the OS will i lose ALL files i have saved??
Yes you would, unless you use the Archive and Install feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Yet it seems that isn't the problem.
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I have 2 of those mainboards. In the first one the BIOS is upgraded to 4.3. The system has a Pentium G860 (Sandybridge) and a Corsair HX750 psu. Control Center reports system to have 1 phase active while idle but the phase system itself is reported as disabled. It is not reported as either Intel SVID or APS. This seems to be wrong though cause when system goes to full load all phases go active again.
The other mainboard has an i5 2500K and was using BIOS v1.19. I had set the phase system to Intel SVID and indeed the phases changed between idle and full load. In a stupid attempt to benefit from Intel's rapid start technology that is supported on the latest BIOS and despite my better judgment I upgraded the BIOS to v 4.30. I had lots of issues with overclocking the CPU so I downgraded to 1.19 using the forum tool and the custom BIOS file. I may need to do a fresh installation of windows but according to the leds on the mainboard and the Control Center I can't get the mainboard to lower the phases even when idle. I've tried Intel SVID and APS in the BIOS but I had no luck. C1E is enabled along with every other energy saving feature. Currently and most of the time the i5 is running on stock clocks. I did notice that during the original upgrade from 1.19 to 4.30 in the BIOS the Intel ME was also upgraded from v7 to v8. I am not sure if the forum tool that reverted back the BIOS to v1.19 took care of the intel ME.
So I wanted some clarification to what happens with the power phase system in the new BIOS (4.3) and a bit of help in regards to the other system that for the time being seems incapable of lowering CPU phases. The second system is using a Coolermaster Silent M 1000W psu. Both mainboards are equipped with 16GB of Corsair (XMS1600) memory. Both systems use aftermarket coolers that keep the temperature reasonably low while being very quiet. I could list the rest of the specs but I don't think they will matter much.

The v4.3 was intended for those that decide to install an Ivy CPU. There must have been a reason why some of the features or settings were modified or eliminated to accomodate Ivy support. It may be best to ask this question directed towards the MSI Technical engineers.
>> How To Contact MSI <<
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So I wanted some clarification to what happens with the power phase system in the new BIOS (4.3) and a bit of help in regards to the other system that for the time being seems incapable of lowering CPU phases.
As for phases, it may depend on how many applications are running in the background.

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