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jal

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 37

RICOH 213w laser printer setup guide

Hopefully inoffensive, here's a quick start guide for getting this wireless printer going. For the £25 I paid it's brill!

1) Open up the router settings on 192.168.1.1 (usually) WPS

2) On printer hold wifi button for 2 seconds, then hit the stop/start button. A WPS code should be printed (lasts for 2 minutes)

3) Enter code in your router settings. If it worked, the router is a connected device. Take the IP.

4) Install as below:

sudo pacman -S system-config-printer

5) Make sure cups is running (& enabled):

systemctl | grep cups

  org.cups.cupsd.path                                                                         loaded active running   CUPS Scheduler                                                               
  org.cups.cupsd.service                                                                      loaded active running   CUPS Scheduler                                                               
  org.cups.cupsd.socket                                                                       loaded active running   CUPS Scheduler

6) Print settings, add printer, network printer (enter IP), forward, Generic, PCL Laser (recommended)

Done.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,722

Re: RICOH 213w laser printer setup guide

Glad it works for you.  It makes some assumptions about the router configuration, but hey.

The forums are not the ideal place for this, the wiki would be a better place.  On the other hand, it does not really rise to the level that requires a wiki entry.
Not sure what do do with this, so I'll leave this here in the hope that is useful to someone.

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pypi

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Registered: 2014-04-22

Posts: 250

Re: RICOH 213w laser printer setup guide

I've added an entry on the wiki - feel free to correct if I've made a mistake. Router WPS setup differs and there are several different ways of adding printers to CUPS so I've omitted those steps.