How To: Install Lexmark All-In-Ones

[giocarra]

Hi wbar2,
I use two ubuntu (*), one is i386 (and I have a Lexmark X1195 printer that goes very fine) and the other is a amd64 which does not allow me to use the same printer.
I've used the way showed in a post inside this forum where is indicated a way for a 32 system and a little variation for the amd64 one.

But, as I told before I've not been able to use my Lexmark on the second Ubuntu.

Do you have a suggestion for me, since I see that You have a Ubuntu 64 O.S.?

Sorry for my bad English, but I'm from Italy..................

Best Regards, have a nice day.

giocarra

edit : (*) I mean Lucid Lynx 10.04 32-bit and Lucid Lynx amd64 64-bit, of course.

[wbar2]

Hi wbar2,
I use two ubuntu (*), one is i386 (and I have a Lexmark X1195 printer that goes very fine) and the other is a amd64 which does not allow me to use the same printer.
I've used the way showed in a post inside this forum where is indicated a way for a 32 system and a little variation for the amd64 one.

But, as I told before I've not been able to use my Lexmark on the second Ubuntu.

Do you have a suggestion for me, since I see that You have a Ubuntu 64 O.S.?

Sorry for my bad English, but I'm from Italy..................

Best Regards, have a nice day.

giocarra

edit : (*) I mean Lucid Lynx 10.04 32-bit and Lucid Lynx amd64 64-bit, of course.

The tutorial has been tested to work on 32-bit Lucid Lynx. I have attempted to get this to work on 64-bit, but I have not been able to. In the past I was able to install it after finding some libraries that were needed. It was libstdc++5. You might have to google around to find it. I'm not even sure if it will help. I may try to test it myself later this week.

[tdf711]

you guys rock. I am very new to Linux, just did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 and needed to hook up my Lexmark 4690. Instructions worked perfectly. The only thing I have to add is I had to go into the Terminal and do a sudo passwd to change the root pw from nothing to something. That resolved the problem of the install wizard not recognizing my password. I thought the root pw would have been the password I used when I did the install, but guess not. So far so good with Ubuntu.

[MyR]

Would this work for the x2600 series?

You linked from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1021755

thanks!

[wbar2]

Would this work for the x2600 series?

You linked from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1021755

thanks!

I'm not sure. I do know that the driver is different. The X2600 driver is located here (not the same as posted above):
http://www.downloaddelivery.com/down...386.deb.sh.zip

I would think the process would be the same. The main issue is the installation script accepting your password. There are a few ways to do this. I just modified the tutorial above to what I think might be a better way. Try out the tutorial and let me know if it works and I will add your printer to this tutorial.

[relapse]

Thanks for the guide wbar2!

The wired installation for my Lexmark x4975 printer under Lucid went without a hitch.

The wireless setup didn't work for me however. When it asks you to select a driver it asks for a ppd file which is nowhere to be found and trying a driver from the list of provided ones resulted in an error when I tried to finish the setup wizard.

There was an easy fix though.

Go to System > Administration > Printers

After running the wired installation you'll have a new printer listed, e.g. Lexmark_4900_Series. Right-click on it and select Duplicate, give it a new name like "Lexmark_4900_Series_Wireless".



Right-Click again and select properties. In the field marked Device URI, enter socket://IP_ADDRESS_OF_PRINTER. Then close the window.

[Jim1804]

I can confirm that these instructions also work for the Z2420 - can now print both wired and wirelessly with Ubuntu Karmic. Thanks!

[PTelly]

wbar2, Thank you very much. Have been try to get my Lexmark X7675 install since new driver came out. Have contacted Lexmark 3 times to no avail. Using the sudo passwd did the trick. Rest was easy installing the sh file.
Thanks again and have a Great Life.

Paul

[wbar2]

Thanks for the guide wbar2!

The wired installation for my Lexmark x4975 printer under Lucid went without a hitch.

The wireless setup didn't work for me however. When it asks you to select a driver it asks for a ppd file which is nowhere to be found and trying a driver from the list of provided ones resulted in an error when I tried to finish the setup wizard.

There was an easy fix though.

Go to System > Administration > Printers

After running the wired installation you'll have a new printer listed, e.g. Lexmark_4900_Series. Right-click on it and select Duplicate, give it a new name like "Lexmark_4900_Series_Wireless".



Right-Click again and select properties. In the field marked Device URI, enter socket://IP_ADDRESS_OF_PRINTER. Then close the window.

Thanks! I've updated the tutorial!

[n.hinton]

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