Originally Posted by
dave2709
Hi wcanonw,
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, but I'm guessing that I'm on a different time zone.
Please bear with me while I give you an outline: the machine was up for grabs on a Freecycle site so I asked and it was given to me. It was advertised as a copier only, but I was informed that it was a printer and scanner, but that the person donating it hadn't bothered to hook it up as a printer.
When it came to my place, I put it on to my network. I installed the UFRII driver for it initially, and although it was seen on the network it would not print. So I tried the PCL driver. Again it would not print. (I also tried to perform these operations via a straight USB link). Finally I tried it with the PostScript driver without any luck.
I then did some research and looked up how to get to various functions/menus on the machine (previously only doing the basic stuff) and found that it had listed a load of test pages as "NG #853" whatever that is.
After spending some time on the 'net looking this up, I found someone saying that it was probably that a printer kit was not installed. So I searched for printer kits. Mostly they were exhorbitant in price - one was around 370 euros.
Eventually I found a PostScript Printer Kit AA1 (which is listed in the Canon brochures as an option) for 40 euros, so I bought it.
It is genuine, as I have gone to the Canon Licensing site, and put in the serial number together with my machine ID and have had a license number generated. Also, when I received it the package had not been opened.
I will send a photo if you want, but all that there was in the package was a genuine Canon certificate, and three or four user disks together with an instruction manual.
I then entered the license on the machine, only to get the message which read something like "There is insufficient memory to perform this operation".
So I went into the maintenance section and looked up a couple of things: the machine is registered as having 256MB of memory, and there isn't a "1" against the PCL installation - it is a "0", so I'm assuming that it is not installed. Strangely, against the PS option there is a "2". There does not seem to be any option for UFRII anywhere, but there are lots of menu entries so maybe I missed it. The machine incidentally is an IR3225. I think it is the absolute basic model - there seems to be an "N" version, but I don't think it is that - which makes me wonder if there is UFRII support.
I took the cover off the machine, and there is a slot for additional memory, but I do not know what type - all I can ascertain is that it is the "System Upgrade RAM-A1" option, but that is all.
So that's where I am at the moment, and any help would be gratefully received.
Regards, Dave.
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