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I'm using ubuntu 16.04. I bought a new ricoh sp 212sfnw it is a printer ,scanner, fax ,network and wireless printer. I can't find or install drivers for printer or scanner or network .

I tried this way :

  1. connect it via USB
  2. Printers -> Add -> ricoh sp 212sfnw -> ricoh
  3. there a list of many models for ricoh printers but i didn't find sp 212
  4. I tried many different models but all working very slow .

one solution for printer driver :

selecting "Generic" -> "PCL 6/PCL XL" looks to work better. The printer working good even via wifi

scanner :

sudo sane-find-scanner show this:

# sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

# No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x05ca [RICOH ], product=0x044f [RICOH SP 212SFNw]) at libusb:001:002 

# Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by   
# SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

# Not checking for parallel port scanners.

# Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program.

scanimage -L show that :

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

I did that sudo gedit /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules and added 

# RICOH SP 212SFNW 
ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ca", ATTRS{idProduct}=="044f, ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

and that sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/ricoh.conf and added

#RICOH SP 212SFNw
usb 0x05ca 0x044f

But the same results I didn't find any way to install it

How to install driver for scanner in details please ?

Tarek
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  • The printer driver and wireless printer working well now but the problem in scanner driver – Tarek Jan 17 '17 at 03:39
  • This printer is not officially supported via OpenPrint or CUPS. You can use the Generic Ricoh Postscript, but there will never be full functionality. As for the scanner, you will find that there is no OEM driver for this unit. There are possible hacked together fixes, including this. I would not expect to get this scanner to work properly. – AnotherKiwiGuy Jan 17 '17 at 04:33
  • I tried this before and it didn't work as addition information may help the Windows driver is called Twain driver (kind of general drivers for many scanners ) – Tarek Jan 17 '17 at 11:59
  • Related:http://askubuntu.com/questions/711177/install-issues-with-ricoh-sp-211?rq=1 –  Jan 22 '17 at 13:08
  • @ThatGuy ( sudo tee -a ) this part ganging the terminal and do nothing how i can edit that – Tarek Jan 25 '17 at 10:42

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