Xerox Phaser 6110n Snow Leopard Driver

Having bought this printer as a replacement for a (really terrible) Lexmark inkjet printer I found it easy to setup when using Leopard (10.5), but after upgrading to Snow Leopard (10.6) there has been a few issues installing the driver. Although Xerox does have some instructions on how to install the printer on Snow Leopard it’s often impossible to even get the installer to run (even with Rosetta installed – the driver installer not being a universal build). The driver installer starts up, but crashes after a few seconds (apparently only on 10.6.2+). Luckily I was able to pull out the driver files from my old Leopard install and install them the hard way. So for anybody having the same problem here goes.

• Download the driver files from here: Xerox Phaser 6110 Snow Leopard Driver.
• Start up a Terminal.
• Copy the file to /Library/Printers

cp ~/Downloads/xerox_phaser_6110n_snow_leopard.tar.gz /Library/Printers

• Unpack the file

cd /Library/Printers
sudo tar -zxvf xerox_phaser_6110n_snow_leopard.tar.gz
sudo chown -R root:admin PPDs
sudo chown -R root:admin Xerox
sudo chmod -R a+rwx Xerox
sudo chmod -R a+rwx PPDs

• Finally restart the OS X printing system by right clicking in the empty driver list. The install the printer as you normally would on OS X.

However there are still some issues (not Snow Leopard related).

1. It always show supply levels to be low – even though the toners are all new.
2. The windows driver allows for some tweaking of the colors, brightness that enhances the image quality a lot. The OS X-driver doesn’t support this, so the image quality is better on Windows (if tweaked).