has anybody had experience plotting from a mac. I setup ip printing using an lpr port to the plotbase - seems ok. customer asked about what ppd to use and sugestions other than generic. Or will everything be good using webclient
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240 does not have a MAC printing driver, only the 470. Plotclient web is platform independent.
true, no supported Mac driver for these products, however, any generic plotter driver should be ok as long as it has the page sizes you need defined.
Don't expect things like media type and tray selection to work, those would need to be accessed thru the PPD.
By the way, PPDs are just text files that define the characteristics of the printer. If you find a PPD that works for you, you can open the PPD in any text editor and tweak it a bit. Example:
*% *********
*% EFI Information Block
*%
*%EFFileVersion: 2.0
*%
*% *********
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.0"
*PCFileName: "EFNC9923.PPD"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*Product: "(Canon imagePASS-C1)"
*PSVersion: "(3015.102) 1"
*ModelName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*ShortNickName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*NickName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*Manufacturer: "Canon"
You can edit this information and change it from Canon iR 3200-C1 to Ricoh 240W so that when they pick the PPD they are picking the name of the printer. Obviously, yhis PPD would be a poor choice since it doesn't support the page sizes you would need.
I would suggest looking for an HP 650c PPD, that should have all the page sizes you would need.
Don't expect things like media type and tray selection to work, those would need to be accessed thru the PPD.
By the way, PPDs are just text files that define the characteristics of the printer. If you find a PPD that works for you, you can open the PPD in any text editor and tweak it a bit. Example:
*% *********
*% EFI Information Block
*%
*%EFFileVersion: 2.0
*%
*% *********
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.0"
*PCFileName: "EFNC9923.PPD"
*LanguageVersion: English
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*Product: "(Canon imagePASS-C1)"
*PSVersion: "(3015.102) 1"
*ModelName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*ShortNickName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*NickName: "Canon iR C3200-C1 PS Ver2.1"
*Manufacturer: "Canon"
You can edit this information and change it from Canon iR 3200-C1 to Ricoh 240W so that when they pick the PPD they are picking the name of the printer. Obviously, yhis PPD would be a poor choice since it doesn't support the page sizes you would need.
I would suggest looking for an HP 650c PPD, that should have all the page sizes you would need.