Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
I'm using Breezy now. I bought a Dell All-in-one 962 photo printer 2 weeks back. I found out by googling that Dell 962 is Lexmark X7170.
I got the driver for Lexmark X7170 from this link.
http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/i...7170_rev2.html
I ran alien filename as normal user (not as root). I then got the deb file. I then issued
$sudo dpkg -i x7170llpddk_2.0-5_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 95758 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace x7170llpddk 2.0-5 (using x7170llpddk_2.0-5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement x7170llpddk ...
Setting up x7170llpddk (2.0-5) ...
$
I then rebooted the system. When I went to add printer, I didn't see the driver under either Dell or Lexmark. I would appreciate if someone can help me.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
I tried this methog and it did not work for me. I have a x1150 That I have never been able to get to work in linux. Here is what happens...
h3avyarms@ubuntu:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ ./z600
./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Everything works fine untill that step. I'm trying this on a fresh install of Ubuntu 5.10 and the printer works fine under windows. If I ignore this and continue with the instructions it will say it is printing the test page but nothing happens, I really need some help here. TIA
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
Nevermind, If you change the margins it will work. Still no test page though.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
Quote:
Originally Posted by h3avyarms
I tried this methog and it did not work for me. I have a x1150 That I have never been able to get to work in linux. Here is what happens...
h3avyarms@ubuntu:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ ./z600
./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Everything works fine untill that step. I'm trying this on a fresh install of Ubuntu 5.10 and the printer works fine under windows. If I ignore this and continue with the instructions it will say it is printing the test page but nothing happens, I really need some help here. TIA
yeah...i got that too with breazy. you can go to
System ->Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
search for libstdc, and install version 5.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
This works fine on my z700, but 1) It won't print with a one inch margin on the left side even if (as in OO.o) there is one; and 2) printing something from gvim is somewhat fine, but a bit of text is moved forward or backward (and it suffers from #1 too).
EDIT: Using OO.o 2.0 now prints out the left and right margins but the top margin now isn't there.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
Quote:
Originally Posted by black hole sun
Code:
$ mkdir lexmark
$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark # move the package to a folder. optional, but recommended.
$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz # extract the driver.
$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz # the sh script is broken for newer systems. use `tail` to extract the binary portion of the script.
$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extract the contents produced by tail
$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C / # extract the tgz's to / putting the files in their right place
$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C / # extract the tgz's to / putting the files in their right place
$ sudo ldconfig # DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP or your printer backend won't find required libraries
$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz # unzip the ppd, which should _not_ be gzipped
HELP!!! I have Lexmark Z601, but can't get your procedure right!!
I figured I had to install alien, and I figured out how to move to the lexmark folder with the cd command.
but then, in the next step, sudo tar xv..etc.. following happens:
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C
tar: option requires an argument -- C
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$
What??
I type c (not capital):
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -c
tar: Du kan ikke angi mer enn ett av «-Acdtrux»-flaggene #(you can't specify more than one of the Acdtrux flags- translated from norwegian.)
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$
Could you help me through the basic steps?
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
Quote:
Originally Posted by SunshineSmile
HELP!!! I have Lexmark Z601, but can't get your procedure right!!
I figured I had to install alien, and I figured out how to move to the lexmark folder with the cd command.
but then, in the next step, sudo tar xv..etc.. following happens:
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C
tar: option requires an argument -- C
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$
What??
I type c (not capital):
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -c
tar: Du kan ikke angi mer enn ett av «-Acdtrux»-flaggene #(you can't specify more than one of the Acdtrux flags- translated from norwegian.)
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$
Could you help me through the basic steps?
sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /
The trailing slash there is important, as -C refers to the corresponding directories.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
eine@eine:~/Desktop/Lexmark$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
eine@eine:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
eine@eine:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
gunzip: Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz: No such file or directory
eine@eine:/usr/share/cups/model$ /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd start-stop-daemon: Unable to open pidfile `/var/run/cups/cupsd.pid' for writing: Permission denied (Permission denied)
[ ok ]
eine@eine:/usr/share/cups/model$
I made the bold typing. Next step?
If somebody has time enough to explain the next few steps with backports and stuff, so I can get my z601 up and running, I would be delighted. Was a bit more difficult than just cut and paste. Understanding where to be, where to put in the commands, where the stuff is installed, etc. is a bit more than I have been doing with my windows... :D
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
Finally!!
Thanks so much...Not sure if I was doing something wrong with other ways I was trying that I found via Google.....but kept getting one error or another until I tried these instructions and Bingo....my z515 prints.
Thanks again.
Re: HOWTO: Lexmark Printers
I reinstalled ubuntu to remove my windows partition and wanted to see if I could get this lexmark installing thingy working when starting with clean sheets..
What do you make of this? So close but so far.....
eine(username)@chello212186066182(my hostname):/usr/share/cups/model$ /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd start-stop-daemon: Unable to open pidfile `/var/run/cups/cupsd.pid' for writing: Permission denied (Permission denied)
[ ok ]
eine@chello212186066182:/usr/share/cups/model$ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend
eine@chello212186066182:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ ./z600
./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
eine@chello212186066182:/usr/lib/cups/backend$