![]() Please develop these much needed 64bit drivers for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which will be around for 4 years or provide the source to the community and work together with the Linux community on developing this. Having worked at Microsoft for many years, I know that the focus is much more on enterprise businesses than on end-user products, however if you market the printer as Linux-compatible, you should at least have the decency of supporting the most commonly used Linux operating system, which is undeniably Ubuntu 64bit. While there exist workaround to bring this printer to life in 64bit versions of Debian/Ubuntu-based Operating System - which is the standart Desktop at many Fortune500 companies like Google - I would be very happy if Xerox could develop a 64bit driver, such as Hewlett Packard is offering to its comsumer-grade printers. I'm about to buy this printer for my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, my whole family uses Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit now and I am installing this excellent operating system for clients as well, moving them away from Windows and even MacOS. Then I chose the option 'AppSocket/JetDirect network printer via DNS-SD', clicked the "Forward" button and was able to immediately print a color test page. I found the Phaser 6010N on the network as I'm connected by ethernet, by clicking on "Network Printer', waiting for it to be found and selecting it. Install the printer as usual by going to Printing item in the System Settings window or the Printers item on the system menu (top right) and clicking the button '+Add'. Package in your Downloads directory, after which you may close the terminal.ģ. Open a terminal and execute the following four commands, assuming you've placed the driver Which gives you a zip file called 6000_6010_deb_1.01_20110210.zip in your Downloads directory, which youĬan double click on to have the archive manager find and extract the real contents, the driver package,īest extracted to your Downloads directory as assumed in the next step.Ģ. Download the (32-bit) Linux CUPS DEB print driver from Xerox here ![]() Sudo dpkg -i -force-architecture xerox-phaser-6000-6010_1.0-1_bĪ Detailed Procedure to do the above follows:ġ. ![]() Sudo apt-get install -y libcupsimage2:i386 Execute the following three commands to install 32-bit libs, 32-bit CUPS, and the 32-bit drivers from Xerox, after which installing the printer normally via the system menu should find those drivers without further effort. Open terminal, cd to directory containing the. TL/DR: download the 32-bit drivers package from Xerox, get the. The following procedure got the Phaser 6010N that I bought last week working fully with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bits with no complexity. ![]()
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