RISO SC7700 Drivers

[M Rezac]

Has anyone discovered a work-around or generic driver (or legitimate driver) for the RISO SC7700 Rip that works with a MAC (either Classic OS or OSX)?

Thanks much (in advance),
M

[zx81]

sc7700 ppd

you can get a ppd (printer driver) for sc7700 from :
Index of /pub/ppd_adobe/SofHa
the sc7700 should appear when you add a printer in osx (ip printer if you know the ip add or appletalk)
then just choose to use the ppd instead of the generic postcript one..
works fine in osx

[M Rezac]

Thanks. Still can't seem to get it to work. Does anyone out there have the original SC7700 CD ROM? According to the manual there is Classic MAC OS software included on the disc.

[Huckleberry]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

Right but on this page you will find 4 PPDs for 600dpi machines.
Who knows which one is needed?

[zx81]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

well i guess it depends which rip and which riso you have... if you have an sc7700 and a gr3770 you will need the
SC7700 GR 600 dpi V1.0A
file
use your common sense i guess, i presume the J stands for Japan(?)

[Huckleberry]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

Thanks for your repley but:

I got the information from Riso telling me that a connection (compatiballity) is not possible between SC7700 and the iMAC with Intelprocessor.
In other words a Driver for the iMAC (Intel) is not available.

[TravisG]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

Thanks for your repley but:

I got the information from Riso telling me that a connection (compatiballity) is not possible between SC7700 and the iMAC with Intelprocessor.
In other words a Driver for the iMAC (Intel) is not available.

That is incorrect. I have an intel iMac running the SC7700 driver just fine (almost every day). The problem is not the intel iMac, it is the OS. Mac OS 10.5X (leopard) was the last one I had success running directly. I can share the printer and access from another iMac running OS 10.6 (snow leopard) through bonjour sharing. Let me know if this is what you need and I can give you more detailed info.

Hope this helps!

[zx81]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

i'm controlling 2 sc7700's from 10.6 (snow leopard) In 10.5 apple got rid of appletalk but you can add sc7700's using their ip in 10.6 as long as their ip address is in your network otherwise you will need to set it via the console program (which requires windows/os9).

[Greencorn]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

That is incorrect. I have an intel iMac running the SC7700 driver just fine (almost every day). The problem is not the intel iMac, it is the OS. Mac OS 10.5X (leopard) was the last one I had success running directly. I can share the printer and access from another iMac running OS 10.6 (snow leopard) through bonjour sharing. Let me know if this is what you need and I can give you more detailed info.

Hope this helps!

I would be interested in knowing how to run my SC7700 with my MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8 installed. We also

My duplicator is a GR3770.

Thanks a lot!

[Greencorn]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

I would be interested in knowing how to run my SC7700 with my MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8 installed. We also

My duplicator is a GR3770.

Thanks a lot!

Forget about my request, i plugged my old G4 that runs on os9 and everything is under control.

Thanks!

[ddude]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

Thanks for your repley but:

I got the information from Riso telling me that a connection (compatiballity) is not possible between SC7700 and the iMAC with Intelprocessor.
In other words a Driver for the iMAC (Intel) is not available.

I am glad that we have contributors here that can get Macs to work with our equipment- Thank you for your knowledge!!!

Remember the Barbie math doll?

Math is hard!!!!

Well, let's modify that for us copier guys.....

'Macs is hard'............................................. .................................................. ..................................

[zx81]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

I would be interested in knowing how to run my SC7700 with my MacBook Pro with OS 10.6.8 installed. We also

My duplicator is a GR3770.

Thanks a lot!

hi, unfortunately apple got rid of appletalk in 10.6. the only way to use a SC7700 rip is to know the IP address of your SC7700 (you can set up an IP address in OS9/Windows using the console program) the current IP address is printed when you do a self test page, - hold the 'start' button down when you power on the SC7700 :

- get the PPD file (see attached files)
- open print&fax preference pane in system preferences
- click add printer
- select 'IP'
- enter the IP address of the SC7700 in the 'Address' field (something like 192.168.1.26)
- give it a name in the 'name' field (like SC7700)
- choose one of the downloaded PPD in the 'print using' field by selecting 'other...'

this works!
but relies on having set the IP address of your SC7700 to an IP on your network..
hope that helps
zx81

[kpettert]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

hi, unfortunately apple got rid of appletalk in 10.6. the only way to use a SC7700 rip is to know the IP address of your SC7700 (you can set up an IP address in OS9/Windows using the console program) the current IP address is printed when you do a self test page, - hold the 'start' button down when you power on the SC7700 :

- get the PPD file (see attached files)
- open print&fax preference pane in system preferences
- click add printer
- select 'IP'
- enter the IP address of the SC7700 in the 'Address' field (something like 192.168.1.26)
- give it a name in the 'name' field (like SC7700)
- choose one of the downloaded PPD in the 'print using' field by selecting 'other...'

this works!
but relies on having set the IP address of your SC7700 to an IP on your network..
hope that helps
zx81

Thanks for this,

Ive followed all your steps and connected my mbp directly to the sc7700 with an ethernet cable. Still i cant connent to the riso/controller.
Im running Lion, is that was causing the trouble?

all help appreciated

petter

[Ben strawn]

Re: sc7700 ppd

you can get a ppd (printer driver) for sc7700 from :
Index of /pub/ppd_adobe/SofHa
the sc7700 should appear when you add a printer in osx (ip printer if you know the ip add or appletalk)
then just choose to use the ppd instead of the generic postcript one..
works fine in osx

I'm running OSX 10.5.8 on a Mac PPC.
I'm connecting with and printing to my SC7700 connected to a GR3770, I think I've got the right PPD file selected but it is only printing a 8X11 page despite having A3 11x17 paper. On page layout I'm selecting the larger page size and the art is big, but it's getting cropped down. Is the SC7700 not able to go A3? What am I doing wrong?

[Fossgata]

Re: RISO SC7700 Drivers

cant seem to find any working links online to a riso sc7700 driver for mac.. Anyone with an idea or software available ?

Finally got both the riso gr3500 and the sc7700 to Iceland, then found the missing controller unit online and installed and now the only thing missing is a driver..