Gentleman,
While many things can cause 900 rip errors in the firmware, typically 900 rip errors when printing PDF's with postscript driver can be instantly resolved by making a single configuration change in the Lexmark Postscript Driver being used.
There is an option, Disable Postscript Passthrough which should be checked.
Typically this is found in the Printing Preferences, Options, More Options, Postscript, and then you will see Disable Postscript Passthrough. Check this box.
The 900 firmware rip errors will go away.
Adobe applications typically cause this problem. Adobe Postscript may cause issues unless the proper PPD is installed with the Adobe application or this setting is check marked. When this setting is checked, the Postscript Datastream is now intrepreted by the Lexmark Postscript Driver and then passed to the printer. This will also allow the Postscript Print driver to control the finishing properly.
If this setting is unchecked, the Adobe application is now controlling all finishing as the Postscript datastream completely bypasses the print driver. Most users are not familiar with this operation of the application.
When X Disable Postscript Passthrough is checked in the Lexmark Postscript Print driver, all Postscript is properly formatted, all finishing such as tray selection and duplex will be formatted properly, and 900 rip errors will disappear if the error was caused by the Adobe printing typically showing up in PDF printing.
The Motherboard does not need to be changed because of this particular problem if the user is printing PDF's and they are getting 900 firmware rip errors, just change the setting in the Print driver.
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