MP2550 windows 98

[Voltage]

Yeah Yeah. Believe it or not, we still have people here in South Africa using windows 98. One of our cleaver salesman sold a MP2550 to a client without check which OS they are using.

Is there any way to get windows 98 to print on a MP2550. Maybe some old driver from a different driver or something.

[Jomama46]

Try the HP 4 PCL

[Shadow1]

Use the HP4 driver - you won't have control over the drawers, but it will print. Most Ricoh machines are PCL5, so the HP4 printer will work - it's the specific PJL commands for the trays and finishing options that will be missing.

[johnny32]

mp2550 98 printer driver

you can download the win 9x printer driver for th mp2550 from www.nrgcss.com under nashuatec drivers and downloads, mulifunction black and white machines and select the mp2550

[Vulkor]

Yep to all above. Fun thing is Gettiing a Color machine to print under Win98. I eventualy found an old Savin C2408 Win98 driver that worked for the C2020 for a Win98 color.

[Voltage]

you can download the win 9x printer driver for th mp2550 from www.nrgcss.com under nashuatec drivers and downloads, mulifunction black and white machines and select the mp2550

Thanks

Wonder why ricoh-support does not have the driver.

[Vulkor]

Since 1995 Ricoh has embarked on an ambitious strategy to increase its global distribution network. The Ricoh Group brands now comprise of Gestetner, Rex-Rotary, Nashuatec, Savin, Lanier and Infotec, with each brand having its own particular area of competence and customer base. The Ricoh Group currently enjoys No.1 market share in Europe and the USA.

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Ricoh
the offspring
Savin/Lanier

Quit Supporting Win98 a bit after Microsoft did. When Microsoft stops it so do they.

However Gestetner, Rex-Rotary, Nashuatec, and Infotec may still have older drivers. I dunno. Maybe They are not Mainly US? US pushes newest Tech a lot so Win98 is old beans.

[rthonpm]

Have the customer install Smart Device Montior for Client and allow it to do a search for the machine. From there it should allow you to at least create a port for TCP/IP printing.
Old LaserJet drivers will work, though you can try and see if a newer driver will work with the Smart Device Monitor port, or if it just runs. It's been about a year and a half since I set a Win98 box to print so I can't remember what exactly I did for the driver portion.

[Vulkor]

Its Very Rare I see a Win98 PC. Usually its so poor in shape it won't let a driver install lol.

[iMind]

Have the customer install Smart Device Montior for Client and allow it to do a search for the machine. From there it should allow you to at least create a port for TCP/IP printing.
Old LaserJet drivers will work, though you can try and see if a newer driver will work with the Smart Device Monitor port, or if it just runs. It's been about a year and a half since I set a Win98 box to print so I can't remember what exactly I did for the driver portion.

[KenB]

One thing to realize is that it is quite expensive for a manufacturer to keep writing drivers for outdated OSes.

It simply isn't cost effective for them to continue develop drivers which will have minimal use.

Sadly, though, there are still a number of areas around the world that are still running Windows 98 and NT4, and probably will be for a while.

Conversely, you will notice that development has ceased on writing drivers for new machines with outdated langauges. case in point being that Ricoh will soon stop developing the RPCS driver any further, and, from what I can tell, the mini driver seems to have its days numbered, as well.

[KenB]

Just a thought...

If your MPC2550 has PostScript, download the Win XP PostScript driver, and extract the .ppd file for the MPC2550.

Download the Adobe PostScript driver from Adobe.com. It will work with Windows 98, and the .ppd isn't platform specific, so it should work nicely.

[msaeger]

I don't understand the discontinuance of the RPCS driver. Did they used to try and push it and now it as gotten pretty good so lets stop making it. They should really do something with the PS driver to make it more user friendly it is pretty generic feeling.

[KenB]

I don't understand the discontinuance of the RPCS driver. Did they used to try and push it and now it as gotten pretty good so lets stop making it. They should really do something with the PS driver to make it more user friendly it is pretty generic feeling.

I'm with you on the "text driven" PS drivers - pretty lame compared to the GUI based drivers.

I, too, will miss the RPCS drivers. We have been using them as the default "driver of choice" when the customer is undecided during an installation.

Some of the newer PS drivers have a more GUI look and feel, I'm just not sure which ones. Probably has something to do with the type of driver "core".