Windows 10: kindly assist me with ricoh is 2018d driver for printer

kindly assist me with ricoh is 2018d driver for printer

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Ricoh Printer driver.

I'm no friend of Microsoft, but in this case, Microsoft is not to blame.

Only Ricoh can decide if they will support your printer on Windows 10. Microsoft can't do this, for two reasons:

1- Microsoft doesn't have access to Ricoh's proprietary knowledge of how your printer works, nor do they have access to the software code for Ricoh's drivers. Microsoft can only support hardware that Microsoft builds.

2- Even if Microsoft were to somehow learn Ricoh's proprietary knowledge of your printer, and the code for the drivers, those are Ricoh's own intellectual property that Microsoft has no legal right to alter.

Hardware manufacturers like Ricoh decide to stop supporting their hardware for many reasons (which usually have to do with money but you didn't hear that from me.) When a manufacturer decides they're not supporting their hardware on Windows 10, there isn't anything that Microsoft can do about it.

 

Ricoh AP2600 pcl laser printer

It's not surprising that your printer quit working. What's surprising is that your printer continued to work for so many years after Ricoh stopped supporting it. Ricoh's last published driver was for Windows 7 yet your printer continued to work well into
Windows 10. That's quite an accomplishment. But now it's time for a new printer.

Only Ricoh can write drivers for Ricoh printers and Ricoh stopped supporting your printer years ago.

 

connecting printer Ricoh Aficio FX200 to Win10

I recently purchased a Toshiba laptop running Windows10 64 and I cannot get my old Ricoh Aficio FX200 connect and print even after downloading the presumably (PCL6 generic driver) right driver from Ricoh web site.

I only see my printer in the :unspecified" devices from the "printers and devices" page but is never detected when I try to install it by adding printer.

Unfortunately my skills are limited and I'd need a step by step type of help on how to proceed assuming there is a solution!

Can someone spend a minute to help?

Thank you in advance for your time.

Sandro