Getting color on a Xerox Phaser 6250

[Helge Blischke]

Patrick Spinler wrote:
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> Our office recently purchased a color Xerox Phaser 6250 printer.  I
> visited the xerox web site, found a set of proprietary linux (!) drivers
> for it, and extracted a ppd file from the driver directory tree.
> 
> The ppd file identifies itself as a Xerox generic Laser Printer driver.
> 
> Using this ppd and the lpd protocol, I am able to print to this printer,
> but, no color.
> 
> I assume that the ppd file has something to do with this.  Can someone
> please give me a hint as to what sort of hackery I need perform on the
> ppd file in order to enable color printing to this device ?
> 
The correct PPD should identify itself as "Xerox Phaser 6250DP"
or similar, depending on the model variant you use, They all are
color devices.

Helge

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