Xerox WorkCentre XD120f 'n wireless

[Dave]

I've got an old but working Xerox WorkCentre XD120f printer/photocopier and
would like to put it to use as a networked printer. Our office is mainly
wireless with no network cabling installed, so I've got to either set up a
PC in the proposed copy room (waste of resources) or get this printer set up
as a networked printer using a print server device.

In the past I had this printer connected via parallel cable to a Windows PC
using the Xerox driver. I could not share this printer, and according to
Xerox, sharing is not supported. Anyway, I figured that I might be able to
hook it up to a wireless print server instead which might fool the printer
into thinking it was locally connected. I have a D-Link DP-311P but cannot
get it to work. The local driver lists the job as "printed" but the DP-311P
never says anything other than "waiting for job". ??? I know the DP-311
works as I've used it on another printer.

Does anyone know if the Xerox driver uses some non-standard pins on the
parallel cable to, for example, take the machine out of powersave or change
the mode from copy to print? Has anyone successfully set up any of the XD
printers as network printers?

thanks

dave

 

[Mike Berger]

Good luck. I never had any success getting the WorkCentre XD120F
to work with any network print servers, and I spent a lot of effort
on it.

The printer was awfully unreliable anyway, and we recently reprogrammed
it with a pickaxe a la "Office Space".

While sharing is not officially supported on many office printers,
the Xerox is the only one I've encountered that seemed to intentionally
make it impossible to do.