HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[rookieone]

Thanks, that worked fine. OK I had to fiddle a bit but third time's a charm as they say.
Now I need to replace my cartridges, they've dried out.

[matchstich]

i have been trying all this stuff in here for a while and nothing is working, i give up. where can i find a list of printers that will work on ubuntu, thanks

[H.E. Pennypacker]

Will these instructions work with Lexmark X85 (which is a lot like the X75)?

i have been trying all this stuff in here for a while and nothing is working, i give up. where can i find a list of printers that will work on ubuntu, thanks

You should consider linuxprinting.org's recommendation page.

[Chickenfoot]

ARRGGGGGG,

Gods Frakkin' Damnit!!!

Trying to get my Lexmark 5150 working on DApper.

Read the whole thread, especially page 12! Added to my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdc1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

went to terminal, ran the following command:

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.
tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extract the contents produced by tail
sudo alien --to-deb *.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to deb.
dpkg -i *.deb # install the debs
sudo ldconfig # refresh ubuntu to see the new libraries
cd /usr/share/cups/model
sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz # unzip the ppd, which should _not_ be gzipped
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart # The driver is now installed. Restart the cups daemon.

I get this:

gunzip: Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz: No such file or directory
chickenfoot@spanky:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart # The driver is now installed. Restart the cups daemon./usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ ok ]


Still cannot print out. What am I doing wrong?

[H.E. Pennypacker]

I went to the first tail line, and I got a whole bunch of gibberish. There is no text...just random characters...as you would see in a crashed text document.

I followed these instructions before, and I downloaded tail, but now I don't know what to download anymore. What exactly does tail go by in Synaptic?

[twstokes]

Worked beautifully with my Dell 720 over a network!

Prints a tad on the slow side, but that's way quicker than booting into Windows now isn't it?

[H.E. Pennypacker]

I went to the first tail line, and I got a whole bunch of gibberish. There is no text...just random characters...as you would see in a crashed text document.

I followed these instructions before, and I downloaded tail, but now I don't know what to download anymore. What exactly does tail go by in Synaptic?

It turned out I was only copying a part of the line. Make sure you copy everything until the number symbol ("#"), which in programming languages, is used to preceed any lines that a programmer does not want the computer to recognize and use. These "hidden from the computer" lines are called comments, and are useful for adding notes to a programming language. In other areas of computers, comments are widely popular as well, and are used frequently.

[makadam]

Hello.

Thanks for your HOWTO.
I installed my Lexmark Z602 in a similar way. I used this French HowTo you can find here : http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/materiel/im...ark_z600_serie

[Luthy]

luthy@luthy-desktop:~$ sudo mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark
mv: cannot stat `CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz': No such file or directory
luthy@luthy-desktop:~$

Ok can some one please PM detailed instructions? I am somewhat of a newbie when it comes to comand lines, is there anyway you can do this w/o going into root? please and thank you hunnies!

[DonKyot]

Hi,
I'm being a bit thick.
Did everything on post #1. Then in

Now simply set up your printer through the System->Administration->Printing in gnome. Make sure you select the z600 driver, and you're golden.

no z600 shows up in the driver list.

I tried a few that do show up - no luck (X1180).

Any ideas?

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