HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[darkeale]

See my post above yours.

Also see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ty#post7115192

sorry, i missed that. my bad.

that solved that problem, thanks. ive set up the printer as you instructed but when i try to print the test page i get the following message in the printer properties window:-

printer state: idle - both cartridges are invalid. please use appropriate cartridges.

i know this is incorrect because i have had the printer working in windows.

any suggestions?

thanks,
Alex

[doogiekd]

Thank YOU NewonLinux!


I followed your instructions exactly.

My Lexmark Z645 is working perfectly now.

doogiekd

[rhoward]

I followed the instructions on this page and even though the z600 driver is in the drivers list. it will not print. When I try to print a test page nothing happens. complete silence except for my expletives.

Does anyone have any ideas or offer me some help?
Thanks

[patek]

jaunty on KDE 4.x Z640 printer
use the code below for restarting

sudo /etc/rc2.d/S50cups restart

If that doesn't work, do an

cd /etc/rc2.d
ls

and substitute the cups program you have in the restart line.

Browse to http://localhost:631/printers (with internet browser)

Add your printer and browse to /usr/share/cups/model and select
Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd for the driver file

This forum hasn't got a thank you option - thank you here then. I did it a few weeks ago but hadn't got round to responding until a thread subscription email prompted me

And by the way, what's the chance that quoting your post here will help rhoward? In fact, I could vaguely remember doing it on my old distro, working on a funny path in my internet browser - that's the baby

Rhoward try thoroughly browsing this localhost settings page - I had to play with activating things etc. if I remember right - sorry for a vague post.

[andy.stallwood]

I had a small problem, when trying to follow this procedure in karmic, as libstdc++5 is not available in karmic (it seems to have been replaced by libstdc++6), and so I got the "
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error when trying to do the ./z600.

So, to solve this I installed libstdc++5 from the jaunty repository (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i3...dc++5/download) by downloading the .deb file and opening it using GDebi Package Installer. It worked a treat, and my Z615 is now happily printing away.

Cheers

Andy

[newonlinux]

Hi, I had a lot of trouble with this, but finally got it working.
I had your problem andrupop, but follow this exactly and it should fix it.

First check "libstdc++5" and "libstdc++6" files are installed. Go system -> administration -> synaptic package manager,
search for libstdc, mark the two files for installation if not already installed, and click apply.

Then download Z600 linux redhat driver, save to desktop, from here:
http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-per...e=&fileID=1151

Into terminal type these commands (without $)

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ mkdir lexmark
$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark
$ cd ~/Desktop/lexmark
$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz
$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz

Install "alien" program, if it is not already installed, then do:

$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
$ sudo tar xvzf  z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /
$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C /
$ sudo ldconfig
$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz

Then in a fresh terminal do:

$/etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart

[but if this gives you an error message type in:

[$ /etc/init.d/cups restart

then do:

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

If you get output "direct z600:/dev/usb/lp0 "Lexmark Lexmark Z600 Series" "Lexmark Printer" " then it is great, miss the next bit.
If you get no output, then:

$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
and copy and paste to the bottom of the document the words: "usbfs         /proc/bus/usb usbfs   devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0"
-without the quotation marks, and then in terminal do:
$ sudo mount usbfs

Now hopefully your driver is installed and ready,
so go system -> administration -> printing,
click New,
choose printer from list,
close the "searching for drivers" or wait for it to finish,
check the "provide ppd file"
and browse for it in /usr/share/cups/model
then follow the instructions to name the printer etc and you are done!

EDIT: Since updating to karmic...

Hi, I've not used this for ages,
but updated to karmic and found my printer did not work.
I've managed to get it to work by deleting the printer from Administration>Printing
and starting over..

This time I had to install libstdc++5 manually as it's not on karma
from here http://packages.debian.org/etch/libstdc++5
and choose your architecture (if you choose the wrong one it'll tell you when you try to install after downloading) then continent

I then did the process, but this wasn't the end, as i got some error messages and could not print.

it seemed to set the wrong permissions for some files and thus i was told that filter was insecure etc

so to change the files to the correct user (of root)
type into terminal
sudo -s
chown root [FILE]
chgrp root [FILE]

and replace the word [FILE] with these files and directories:
usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
usr/lib/cups/filter
usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
usr/lib/cups/backend

and do both commands for each file,
hope this gets your printer working!

Just reposted this all so it's altogether,
my last post seemed to help some people, so maybe this will help people with update to karmic...
newonlinux

[giocarra]

Hi newonlinux,
I followed your how-to and I've got my Lexmark printer printing like a charm on my KarmicKoala i386 32 Bit.
Thanks a lot.
I repeated the same operation (two or more time) on my KarmicKoala amd64 64 bit with no success at all.
All has gone well up to the end.
I did not receive any warning, I was not told about "cups.insecure-filter" but when I try to print the test-page I'm told " error printing test page ", no more no less.
It is very strange, after all is gone fine .
Any suggestion?
Excuse me for my bad Englis and receive my best regard.

giocarra

[mjp29]

Will copying and pasting this into terminal do the trick?

$ mkdir lexmark
$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark # move the package to a folder. optional, but recommended. 
$ 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. use `tail` to extract the binary portion of the script.
$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz # extract the contents produced by tail
$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ sudo tar xvzf  z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C / # extract the tgz's to / putting the files in their right place
$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C / # extract 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
$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz # unzip the ppd, which should _not_ be gzipped

The driver is now installed. Restart the cups daemon:

/etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart

Check whether the printer backend works;

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

The output of the above command should be _similar_ to this:
If you get no output, mount the usb filesystem.

Add this to your /etc/fstab file:

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

Then just type: sudo mount usbfs. That should fix it.

Will copying and pasting this into terminal do the trick?

[blazemore]

Am I to understand there's still no way to get 1200 series (Specifically x1270) working on 64 bit Karmic, due to the driver requiring version 5 of some library?

I've had to stick with Jaunty just because the karmic upgrade broke printing.

[tiggsy]

I'm sad, because this new update on how to fix for karmic has not fixed my problem. I've done everything, and even got the message about Lexmark 1200 series, which made me think it was all working, but it wasn't. I tried logging out and back in, but no change. I also tried a full restart, but again, no change.