Xerox Universal Postscript Driver free

First I would like to Congratulate Xerox for providing this Postscript printer driver and for free no less. http://tinyurl.com/6n69s4


We've downloaded the beta of Windows 7 64 bit for which suppliers are not providing drivers on older machines

This driver has worked with all Postscript and PS Clone printers in our shop including Brother 7820N fax printer, HP5000 Laser jet, Canon IR6000, Docucolor 240 and Docucolor 12.

The later Fiery equipped Docucolor 240 does have support of a 64 bit driver the ones listed are ugly, the best one seems to be the 260 EX Color server PS which allows saving job configurations and seems to work for the 240.

The only flaw I have found with the Xerox Universal driver is it misreads our old backup Fiery equipped Docucolor 12 as a 1 sided printer instead of Duplex. Therefore I give it a 4 of 5 stars. If you can tell me how to change it from grayed out, I will up it to 5 out of 5.

Ken Graham
CommunityPrinters.com

 

Universal Windows32 & 64bit Postscript & PCL driver

Addendum to this;

http://www.office.xerox.com/latest/SFTWP-02.PDF

Please read the white paper on this as it provides a manual to its abilities.

Specifically it explains that it consists of 2 available drivers, a mobile universal Postscript driver and a 2nd that while not considered mobile adds support for PCL 5 & 6 in addition to Postscript.

In addition my issue with regards to single sided on Docucolor 12 may be addressed near the bottom where it suggest using settings for a different Xerox printer.

Driver link again

http://tinyurl.com/6n69s4

Thanks Xerox

Ken Graham
CommunityPrinters.com
Dawson Creek BC

 

Ken:
I sent you an email from the one listed in Print Owners but haven't heard back. I found this post and find it of interest and right up my alley. Since you first posted on this subject in this forum in Aug last year, I was wondering if you have an update.

I have just taken delivery of a 64 bit Dell for my desktop and am looking for a driver that will work with my Fiery connected Doc 12. I will read the whitepaper this evening. Would it be okay if I called you at the number in your PO sig

Steve Robison

 

Yes its okay to cal, not sure why I missed your other emaill, a bit of history 1st - The Xerox PS driver is able to be made to work but as I recall things could not be changed at command workstation. We have a Doc 240 and doc 12 here so for the few times the 240 is down or we want a better gloss, or we want a t-shirt transfer (still have some that work on the doc 12 to use up) or the client wants the Doc 12 output as thats what he likes --- we use a XP we still have here to send the item.

I never did investigate the possibility of PCL but that might be another route as the docucolor also supports PCL.

I'm afraid I have to place the Xerox Universal Driver in the position of driver of last resort to keep a printer from becoming a anchor.

Ken

 

How to convert XP or older ps printer drivers to Win7 32 or 64 bit or Vista


I have just taken delivery of a 64 bit Dell for my desktop and am looking for a driver that will work with my Fiery connected Doc 12.


Update - based on a post on Printowners by David, referencing back to Microsoft and my experience installing a Doc12 driver using a different EFI current Windows7 compatible driver.

You will want to use a printer driver of a printer you Don't have so references to it don't get confused with another printer you have. However you may want to keep it in the same brand family so it has a look and feel like you are used to.

Download a postscript driver that will work with the desired Windows operating system you have, Windows7, Vista, 32 bit or 64 bit.
Though an exe file they normally unzip to a temporary directory -After unzipping the files, look at the folder that the files unzip to for a PPD file or 2 in cases where there are more than 1 printer bundled in the driver.

Add the word -old to the PPD file for the current printer name. Copy your Docucolor 12 Fiery PPD if desiring a Fiery docucolor 12 printer driver into the directory - Copy the ppd to the ppd file name of the other ppd you renamed with old, but without the word old and delete the other ppd with old in it completely.

Now go through the regular Add Printer Wizard, choose your port,
then for the Printer, click 'Have Disk' then browse to the folder and choose the inf file - it will give you the name of the printer instead of Doc12 but you may simply Rename it to your desired name.

It gave me a warning about not being digitally signed. I just clicked
continue. I renamed from the default
to DC12color.

If the printer driver you modified is another EFI printer it will have some look and feel as a efi printer but with settings limited to the Doc12 ppd. If you chose a more Generic printer it won't have the look and feel, you may not be able to save different size, weight color combinations in that case.

Ken