Driver for Lexmark X4690?

[gianhut]

I just bought a new printer an apparently, Ubuntu 8 is not recognizing it.
I've try the HOWTO: Lexmark Printers... and it didn't work.
I really don't wanna switch back to Windows =(

Please help! Thanks

[zachthejones]

Yeah man, I'm sorry. I just got the same printer and I can't find any drivers for it to work. It seems that Lexmark is not very linux friendly...I'm probably going to return my printer and get one that's more compatible.

[NoBugs!]

Lexmark drivers are available here: http://downloads.lexmark.com/perl/do.../downloads.cgi
There is only a Mac & Windows version, but since Mac os uses the same "cups" printing system, shouldn't there be some way to convert Mac os drivers?

[2hot6ft2]

Try looking here. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=Lexmark and good luck.

[NoBugs!]

Try looking here. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...hlight=Lexmark and good luck.

That didn't work for me either, I tried z600 and z700 drivers.

Taking it back would be a good idea, when it does work, this printer seems to chew paper as it goes through

[Bablefish]

I hate to tell you there are NO Linux drivers for anything Lexmark. I know I tried everywhere...and I do mean everywhere. I finally had to give up and buy an HP printer

[NoBugs!]

There aren't drivers for the newer lexmark printers.
Some of those older printers have been tested to work with old lexmark linux drivers (z600,z700). See here:
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark

[Sef]

I hate to tell you there are NO Linux drivers for anything Lexmark. I know I tried everywhere...and I do mean everywhere. I finally had to give up and buy an HP printer

Not true. Usually for business computers (Optima), there are Linux drivers. For comsumer printers, there are not.

[merkourios]

well,the only solution is to make a virtual XP installation. The printer works perfectly for me now. Used the Sun xVM VIRTUAL BOX.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

[Bablefish]

I had a Lexmark printer, and I looked for 6 months for a Linux driver and could not find on period. I finally had to buy a HP printer, as it seems to be the only widely supported printer on Linux.