
The Minolta drivers have not been updated since 2008, and although they installed and worked fine on Windows 7, I was unable to get them to install on Windows 8 / 8.1. I initally foudn a work-around, using a different Fiery driver which was available in Windows 8.1, and then modifying the ppd to talk to the 3102. Whilst this worked, it didn't have the more intuitive GUI of the original drivers. By attempting to install the printer manually, rather than using the "Add printer" wizard, I discovered that the root of the problem was that the drivers are not digitally signed. This led me to research how to overcome that issue, and the successful outcome is shown in the picture above. I've added some detailed information about this to the CF3102 page of this website for anyone else who may wish to use a similar machine under Windows 8 or 8.1. The FieryX3e (called CN3102e by Minolta) was used on quite a number of different models and makes of printer/copiers about 10 years ago, so my guess is there are still quite a lot of them out there. After spending some time fine tuning the colour balances, mine is now performing well once again.