HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[cetheriel]

how do i delete posts?

[cetheriel]

works for lexmark z603 on 8.04.1 (should work for other printers as well)
this is how i did it, starting on home folder (defalut if you open from Applications>Accessories>Terminal

$ sudo apt-get install alien libstdc++5 # libstdc++5 was suggested as needed for compatibility issues
$ mkdir lexmark # creates subfolder named lexmark
$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark # moves the package folder lexmark
$ cd lexmark # goes to said lexmark
$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz # extracts the driver.
$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz # extracts the binary portion of the script.
$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extracts the contents produced by tail
$ sudo alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm # converts unusable rpm packages to tgz. ignore script-related warnings.
$ sudo alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm # converts unusable rpm packages to tgz. ignore script-related warnings.
$ sudo tar xvzf  z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C / # extracts the tgz's to / putting the files in their right place
$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C / # extracts 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 # changes folder where you are operating
$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz # unzips the ppd, which should _not_ be gzipped

i then rebooted my pc. when it booted up i open the terminal again and

$ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend
$ sudo ./z600

i returned nothing, but i guess it means something. i then rebooted again, just to make sure. then opened System>Administration>Printing.
selected Z600 Series (it _was_ there) but printing tests didn't work. so i chose offer ppd file, and looked for the one on /usr/share/cups/models and when it asked whether i wanted to keep configurations, i chose not to. tried printing test page and it worked.

[bepcapo]

this all works now thatks for positn this tutorial

[badperson]

HI,

I went through the tutorial, everything went fine until trying to mount the usbfs.

I get this output:

jason@jason-desktop:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ sudo mount usbfs
mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
mount: according to mtab, usbfs is already mounted on /proc/bus/usb

I added this to the /etc/fstab file:

.usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0

thanks,
bp

[badperson]

I followed ctheriel's instructions, still no luck.
my printer is a Dell Photo AIO Printer 924

[cetheriel]

it *might* be because it is a tutorial for LEXMARK printers. i'm sure you will find instructions for DELL printers somewhere on this forum.

[badperson]

Hi,

thanks..I looked for that, but I was told (somewhere, in some post) that the Dell AIO printers are just rebranded lexmark's and that driver might work.

will keep looking.
thanks,
bp

[Temposs]

Please try out my debian package for the lexmark z600 driver:

http://temposs.googlepages.com/liblexz600core0.deb

Just install it and then set your printer to be a Lexmark z600. Hopefully this will work for you.

[querent]

couple of problems: first, don't have a

/etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys

S20 is there, but only restarts with sudo. normal?

also: upon typing ./z600 in the given directory I get

me@home:~$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
/usr/lib/cups/backend/z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any help?

(I also lost wireless in the middle of all this...hopefully that's the router. any ideas there?)

q

[Temposs]

querent, have you installed the libstdc++5 library? This is required for the driver to work.