Sharing the Xerox 6125 N With Linux clients
In this post I will describe how to share a Xerox 6125 or 6125N printer with a Linux machine through a windows host.
The Xerox 6125 (or 6125N) is an amazing deal – a 300$ network-enabled color laser printer.
Unfortunately, this great price tag comes with one major downside – absolutely no linux compatibility WHATSOEVER.
The Xerox 6125 uses a Host Based PDL and as opposed to most Xerox machines – does not support Postscript or PCL printing languages. Xerox has not released any proprietary drivers for it, and for this reason the Open printing database has categorized it as a paperweight.
There is, however, a way around this – if you have at least one windows machine on your network. By creating a virtual postscript printer, and routing its output to the Xerox 6125 through the windows driver – you can share the printer with any machine capable of printing postscript – namely any major Linux distribution (and mac-os X of course!).
Henrik Schmiediche has written a great guide to setting up a virtual gostscript printer on your windows machine – wich can be found here or mirrored in PDF format here.
Once you have set up your virtual postscript printer, and shared it over the network – set up your linux clients to print to it – either using the same driver as the virtual printer, or the generic “Raw Queue” driver (The HP Color Laserjet 4550 PS suggested in the article works great – make sure you use the postscript version of the driver!).
October 11th, 2008 at 8:20 am
If this works well. You might able to set up a windows in a vmplayer to do the job. All in one Linux box…. I have a friend have this printer, but he is a windows guy, won’t try this trick for me.
April 11th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I’ve got the Xerox Phaser 6125 working on Ubuntu 8.10 64bits.
The trick is to install te printerdriver of the Fuji-Xerox DocuPrint C525.
The only problem is, that I can only print 1 page at the time, but there must be a solution, but where.