Setup University of Calgary Printers
The University of Calgary's managed IT printers are all Ricoh C4510 printers. The printers should be preconfigured on all managed IT computers but if you use a self-managed machine, you will have to set up the printers manually.
How to install Ricoh C4510 on Linux
Download the C4510 ppd file from: https://www.openprinting.org/download/PPD/Ricoh/PDF/Ricoh-IM_C4510_PDF.ppd
Required software
You will need to install the system-config-printer package.
Fedora / Red Hat
Install the following packages: dnf -y install system-config-printer cups-client samba-client
Ubuntu / Debian-based
Install the following packages: apt install system-config-printer cups-client smbclient samba
NixOS
Add in the system-config-printer package to your systemPackages list.
Add the printer queue
Run system-config-printer from the Terminal
Click on 'Add' and select 'Network Printer -> Find Network Printer -> Windows Printer via SAMBA'.
In the SMB Printer dialog:
- Enter
smb://itctspcp01.uc.ucalgary.ca/Staff. If you are a student, you must use the Student queue (cost per use applies)smb://uc/itctspcp06.uc.ucalgary.ca/Student. - Select 'Prompt user if authentication is required'
Next, when asked to choose a driver, specify the PPD file that you downloaded for the C4510.
Configure the printer with 'Finisher SR3310' and no other installable options.
Do not print a test page. Instead, finish the setup first and then submit a test page. This is because you need to authenticate for the print job to submit properly which won't happen until you finish the printer setup.
After you submit a print job, open the print queue and click on 'Authenticate'. When prompted to log in, enter your UCIT credentials. If authentication fails, try adding a 'uc/' prefixed to your username (Eg. 'uc/username').
See also
- https://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~leo/support/linux_printing/ricoh/ - My old CPSC page on this topic, which may be going away soon because they're integrating with central IT!