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If you look at PCL6 and PCL5 for all windows OS from Windows Vista X64 to Server 2012R2 X64 you will see that the version number and file sizes are the same. By the time Windows 8 came out, Ricoh was no longer providing support for RPCS. You will notice that the RPCS driver for Vista and Windows 7 was last updated on 03/06/2010.
I hear that Ricoh has discontinued work on Refined Printing Command Stream (RPCS) technology: Like Ricoh’s Desktop Binder, RPCS was Ricoh’s attempt to create its own product to differentiate …
Is there a specific reason that you need an RPCS driver?
The development and support for it stopped quite some time ago.
The PCL6 drivers got a bad rap early on, and rightfully so. They had tons of issues, but since RPCS was dropped, the engineering got pointed at PCL6, and now both the machine specific as well as the universal PCL6 drivers actually work quite well.
PCL5 is only there to be backward compatible for legacy applications that simply can't handle PCL6, and its support is drying up fast.
Like TonerMonkeh said, the Win 7 drivers may work, but no guarantee that they will. Worse, they may print simple jobs OK, but add any sort of complexity to a job, and that could change very quickly. Of course, it wouldn't be supported, and you'd be in a very nasty spot...been there, no fun.
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