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I am searching for xerox workcentre 6605 drivers to get our office printer to work in various ubuntu versions, but mainly 13.04.

Do you have any idea of how to do it?

I have been researching this.

I tried this without luck, I saw this but no luck (the printer is not supported) and more of the same here

How did you got it working?

Thanks you sooo much for your help :) It´s really apreciated.

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  • 13.04 is EOL. Please upgrade to 14.04 LTS.
    – Parto
    May 27, 2014 at 14:01
  • I just update to ubuntu 14.04 and didn´t work. Does anyone have an idea of how to get it working?
    – user285759
    Jun 9, 2014 at 12:55

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I had the same problem with the model Xerox-Workcenter-6605DN. The printer could be installed using the driver for the newer model Xerox WorkCenter 7228 which is included in Ubuntu 14.10.

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cold case but could be useful for others. This post is a copy of my tutorial (in french). This has been tested on Ubuntu 15.04.

I solved this problem using Xerox drivers.

  1. So download them on their website.
  2. Add execution rigths to this sh script :

    chmod +x Xeroxv5Pkg-Debianx86_64-5.10.289.1486.sh
    
  3. Execute this script as root

    sudo ./Xeroxv5Pkg-Debianx86_64-5.10.289.1486.sh
    
  4. A GUI opens, accept conditions and wait.
  5. When script stopped, launch as root the Xerox printer config interface

    sudo xeroxprtmgr
    
  6. You can add your printer with this tool.

Note: I haven't found out how to set a printer that user can choose Colour or B&W, so I created 2 printers : 1 for Colour and 1 for B&W.

Now all that remains it to set the correct printer address, since the one that is created is file:///dev/null!

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In case anyone is still looking for this, it's available in one of my GitHub repositories.

https://github.com/georgerbr/someppdsifixed

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After running the "sh" file that you download from the xerox website, it looks like nothing has happened, but a new ppd file will be in etc/cups/ppd folder. Choose that ppd file when installing the printer.

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In case anyone (including myself) stumbles over this question, none of the answers work on current versions of Ubuntu.

A few years ago, I found a PPD that actually worked after slight adjustments. You can find it here: https://gist.github.com/webmozart/30a8d132e37e3e270f4e36b36b556c8e

Save it as Xerox-WorkCentre-6605DN.ppd (or any other name) and select it when installing the printer.

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