I'm off topic but I know there are a lot of laser printer enthusiests
here and hopefully someone that has been digilent about the firmware
for this printer... not to mention people who like fixing things.
Has anyone possibly kept older firmware versions for this printer around?
I have a Magicolor 2550 that I have been running for several years.
It always had a problem where it would fall off my network and I would
have to power cycle it to recover. Didn't matter if DHCP or static IP
was used... the ethernet would just go dead.
A few months ago, I decided to "fix" this and went looking for a
firmware upgrade. My firmware was orginal and there was a newer one,
many revisions advanced. So, I reflashed the printer. This fixed the
network problem however in trade, I got two new worse problems. Now,
the image on the paper is slightly rotated... about 5 degrees so that it
is no longer square to the paper. Additionally, the front panel keypad no
longer functions and if you press any key, the printer enters into a loop,
printing a menu page and you have to power cycle it to recover. Nice.
I absolutely put in the correct firmware for this printer model so Konica
apparently has some issues.
I've gotten no response from Konica support and so I am looking for someone
who may have archived older versions of firmware so that I can revert the
thing to something less hostile.
It was otherwise a really nice color laser printer and I _should_ have just
lived with the network problem.
Again, it's a Magicolor 2550EN. Not the "DN" model which does use a
different
firmware image.
Thanks and I appreciate off-topic bandwidth.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist