We recently got a new printer on the 6th floor of the EN buiding where our Faculty and Research Group resides. It's a Konica Minolta Bizhub C652DS, the slightly newer model of the C650 found on the 5th floor.
Quite a massive printer, with additions like folding, stapling and hole punching units etc.
The CUPS drivers from Konica are actually not too bad, with the exception that they do not support account tracking, which is used within the faculty.
With the help of John and Jason and some searching I was able to create two PPD files for the C652 and C650 printers, using the femperonpsc250mu.pl filter by Rui Ferrera.
It's now as simple as copying the femperonpsc250mu.pl script to the cups filter directory (like /usr/libexec/cups/filter) and setting the right owner and permissions, and then installing the printer using the new C652 and C650 PPD files found here, using the lpd:// protocol.
(It might also work via https:// as described here)
As CUPS does not yet allow to create an input field for options, you need to set the account key etc. by pull down menu (or combobox or whatever you call them).
It also works if you install the printer on a single CUPS printserver, and just point the various clients to it. In that case anyhow you'll need to set your own passcode or account key in each printing UI (like once for KDE apps once for GTK apps)
Happy printing!
Download the tarball
Thank you!
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