ricoh does not care about drivers to print on mac

[medallo]

hi.
why ricoh does not care about drivers to print on mac without postscript?
How do you print those that have mac with ricoh with other paper sizes (not A4, not legal, not letter) other sizes?
or I am bound to get sd card postscript

[bsm2]

Only Canon supports PCL on Macs

Why does't Ricoh add Postscript with all there Machines? Like Kyocera?


Cost factor plus about 1 out every 100 installs I run into has a Mac

[techandtrader]

Marketshare and last I knew Canon and HP are on top.

[copier tech]

hi.
why ricoh does not care about drivers to print on mac without postscript?
How do you print those that have mac with ricoh with other paper sizes (not A4, not legal, not letter) other sizes?
or I am bound to get sd card postscript

The new Ricohs from MPCxx04ex have Postscript emulation as standard

[KenB]

The new Ricohs from MPCxx04ex have Postscript emulation as standard

The key word here is “emulation”.

In my experience, emulated PostScript normally fares poorly compared to genuine Adobe PostScript. PCL or Canon’s UFRII for Mac work fairly well, but not as well.

It’s not a standard feature because a licensing fee goes to Adobe. There is no sense in including it as most users will never need it.

Keep in mind, though, that many higher end Windows apps can take advantage of PostScript. And don’t forget that a lot of Linux flavors have a taste for it, too.

Most Mac users have learned to expect the premium cost.

[slimslob]

MAC does have a built in Generic PCL Driver that does work with Ricoh. It does not allow setting options.

[sandmanmac]

The key word here is “emulation”.
It’s not a standard feature because a licensing fee goes to Adobe. There is no sense in including it as most users will never need it.

While I know this is true, I've often wondered myself how it is that even the cheapest 'box store' printers include P/S and when it comes to Ricoh, it's also a standard feature on the small MFP's and standalone printers

[KenB]

While I know this is true, I've often wondered myself how it is that even the cheapest 'box store' printers include P/S and when it comes to Ricoh, it's also a standard feature on the small MFP's and standalone printers

I agree.

Even my $150 Brother desktop printer has PostScript.

Again, though, it's not Adobe PostScript. I think it's called "BrotherScript".

Apparently, Ricoh feels that if you are purchasing a higher end printer, that you would want the real deal, and go for the Adobe version.

Then again, who knows what kind of relationships printer manufacturers have with Adobe...that's not for us mere mortals to know.

[slimslob]

I agree.

Even my $150 Brother desktop printer has PostScript.

Again, though, it's not Adobe PostScript. I think it's called "BrotherScript".

Apparently, Ricoh feels that if you are purchasing a higher end printer, that you would want the real deal, and go for the Adobe version.

Then again, who knows what kind of relationships printer manufacturers have with Adobe...that's not for us mere mortals to know.

Many current Ricoh do have a built in PostScript emulator. It does work on most things like PDF files. It gets a little wonky on most advance features.

[medallo]

bad for ricoh.
Even minolta with the old bizhub c450 still prints well in mojave and with old driver.
A minolta if you care about customers.