Xerox Workcentre 6605 drivers

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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!

Answer 3

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.