Vista - Minolta Magicolor 2300 DL Printer Driver

Hi All,
I have a networked 2300 DL printer. The Minolta site only has 32-bit Vista driver available. I bet the interface may be semi-generic as Linux can print to it. Any idea if I could use a 64-bit driver for some other printer to make this work?

Thanks,
Kent

I think the site must create a new software for vista x64 to this hardware ... If they not you cant use it

Have you tried the 2400 drivers? KONICA MINOLTA, Inc. Color and Black & White Laser Printers

if not luck put a request on 64bitdrivers.com:: home

I did try the 2350 driver but just printed a bunch of garbage. I guess I could try a few others. I will post back Minolta's customer support reply when recieved.

Seems "Vista x64 is not currently supported", but I already figured that out on my own. At least the Minolta site's driver page did not say that no 64-bit driver was planned for my printer, so there is hope....

It reminds me of when I contacted USRobotic's for a 64bit driver for my MaxG wireless PCI card, then after waiting for a year I got rid of it and got a Linksys wireless N PCI card which works perfectly

I found a working Vista x64 Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300DL driver.
64bitdrivers.com:: Konica Minolta Magicolor 2300DL for XP x64
1. Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Printer>Add Printer
2. Select Local Printer not Network Printer!
3. Create new port Standard TCP/IP port, port 9100 RAW.
4. Select "Have Disk" and browse to driver downloaded from 64bitdrivers.com

Woot!

For any of you who are still having trouble with your Magicolor 2300dl, All you need to do is call Minolta customer service and they fix your problem in less than 10 mins. I tried many of the suggestions listing below, but I am an idiot when it comes to computers and could not for the life of me get my networked printer to work with windows vista x64. The # is 1-877-778-2687. the guy that helped me was awesome and problem solved. Enjoy!!

To use the Magicolor with Vista 64 or Windows 7 you must have firmware release 2.85. Go to menu on printer scroll to special pages, then print config page. It will print a page which has your firmware version. If you need to update firmware follow these instructions carefully. Once firmware is 2.85 you can use XP X64 driver from Minolta web site. You will need to do this from an XP machine hooked to 2300DL with parallel cable on LPT1.

Good Luck
Bill

http://onyxftp.mykonicaminolta.com/D...&productid=993

Firmware:
ftp://ftp.printer.konicaminolta.net/pub/drivers/other/23dlfw285s.zip download and unzip this.

Problem Description:
How to update the Konica-Minolta firmware on the Magicolor 2300 DeskLaser.

Solution / Work-around / Answer:
Connect the Magicolor 2300 Desklaser to the PC using a parallel cable.

Do NOT reboot the PC or printer engine while code is downloading. Do NOT disconnect the power,
Ethernet or parallel cable while code is downloading. If the downloading of the code is interrupted
in ANY way, the controller board will be destroyed.
Konica Minolta Printing Solutions can not be held liable for damage as result of incorrect firmware
updates.

To upgrade the printer firmware:
1. Make sure the parallel cable is connected with PC and printer.
2. Turn on the PC, but don’t turn on the printer yet.
3. Ensure that the most recent Konica-Minolta MC2300DL printer driver is installed locally on your PC.
4. From Windows Start menu, choose Settings/Printers.
5. Right-click the printer icon or name, and then choose properties from the pop-up menu.
6. Depending on your operating system, choose either the Ports tab or the Details tab.
7. Write down the name of the port selected and the set the port to “file”.
8. Check if any other printers you may have on your system have “LPT1” selected in the Ports tab. If
so, change these ports to “file” as well.
9. Close the printer driver dialog box.
10. Turn on the printer.
Run the Paraupdate.bat
11. The firmware updating tool starts up.
The PC screen will display the following message:
press any key to continue
12. Press any key, firmware installation will start, wait until you see the message
Wait for reboot
Press any key to continue

Now, wait until the printer has rebooted completely, after this press any key. The firmware
installation continues
13. After the printer has restarted and IDLE displays in the printer’s control panel message window,
print a configuration page (Special pages/Print Config Page menu) to verify that the Controller
Firmware Version listed is v2.85s.