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Printing from Chromebooks.

I have a Ricoh Mp 6055 copier and i would like to push out this copier to the chromebooks. I am following the instructions on https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7276100?hl=en

But when i print from the chromebook i just get the hour glass and nothing prints. Im on the same network as the Printer.
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What driver did you specify?
By default, CUPS (the printing system for Mac, Linux and ChromeOS) will use a Postscript driver.
However, Ricoh copiers do not usually have Postscript enabled by default (it is a paid for Option), so you need to use a PCL driver.
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If you are getting the hour glass on the printer, it's possible that you are sending PCL to a printer that is set to expect PostScript. The reverse (PostScript to a PCL printer) would print reams of PostScript code. PostScript's default is to ignore the rest of the job if a single invalid character is received. And with PCL, the first character received is already wrong.
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