Would someone with one of these printers *please* ask on the developmental list for these drivers to be packaged for Ubuntu?
Answer back here, if or when you have already done so.....
Thanks!
(Yes, I mean YOU!)
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Would someone with one of these printers *please* ask on the developmental list for these drivers to be packaged for Ubuntu?
Answer back here, if or when you have already done so.....
Thanks!
(Yes, I mean YOU!)
Will do, but could you provide a link to where I ask?
Both howto's didn't work for me.
The Z600 one tries to print, the paper comes through a little bit, then stalls.
Too bad, I really need to get this printer working!
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=29Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudgun
If you cannot start a new thread there, you will need to sign up and do it by emal here:
http://lists.ubuntulinux.org/mailman...o/ubuntu-devel
Thanks!
Spudgun, I added some detail to your post on the devel mailing list, since there are already some Lexmark printers that work out-of-the-box, I clarified your question.
Please keep an eye on that thread so that you can give pertinent information about getting the thing to work in Ubuntu, if asked.
Thanks!
I cannot say this in a nice way. I bought a Lexmark printer (z23) because it was listed as linux compatible from the old elinux web site. Worst mistake I ever made. This printer and Chyrsler motor vehicles go hand-in-hand as poor excuses for what they are supposed to be: printers and cars respectively. I am now the proud owner of n HP-6210 all-in-1 and GM vehicles and all working great with Linux.
Forget Lexmark until they either really do support Linux or open source their drivers.
THANK YOU!
I did the same steps as in post 1, except using the z35 driver (I have a z25 printer) and it works great now!
I also had to use the command sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart to get it to show up in the printing manager.
Thanks again!
Thanks for this howto! It's one of the smoothest I've used from this site.
My comments below seem a bit pedantic but I just thought, keeping it simple enough for everyone, in-keeping with the style of this site, maybe add some points to the howto?
I had to sudo apt-get install alien first.
When I run alien I get a warning about ownership of files, because you didn't tell me to run it as root, so I went back and did "sudo alien"
That said, it's probably still the howto where the output I got differed least from what I was expecting, if you see what I mean. Which might be partly because I'm using breezy.
Excellent, it works :D
My is Lexmark X1180 is working great now, although it is printing a little on the slow side. Anyone know how to speed things up?
I have a Lexmark Z33 so I tried the Z35 driver and everything worked fine until the last instruction:Quote:
Originally Posted by michellembrodeur
$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/z35
direct z35:/dev/usb/lp0 "Lexmark Inkjet color printer" "Lexmark Printer"
$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/z35 utilities
ERROR: Unable to open printer port "/usr/lib/cups/backend/z35": Text file busy
How can I fix that? Any suggestions?