All credit to and thank you to
black hole sun for starting this thread and sharing how to get lexmark printers working in ubuntu.
Just adding update for what worked to get my old lexmark x1270 working in ubuntu 12.04.
Referring to
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal was very handy for getting to grips of what and how to do simple tasks using Terminal.
Download and save the driver cjlz600le-cups-1.0-1.tar.gz (which Lexmark calls "Driver for RedHat Linux 9.0") from
http://support.lexmark.com using your favorite browser.
From terminal install alien and libstdc++5 which are z600cups dependencies
Code:
sudo apt-get install alien
Code:
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
To unzip and install driver-give these commands from terminal
Code:
$mkdir Lexmark
$cd Downloads #or location of file downloaded from Lexmark website.
$mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz ~/Lexmark
$cd Lexmark
$ 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
$ sudo alien --scripts -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm # convert unusable rpm packages to tgz.
$ sudo alien --scripts -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
$ exit
Then connect printer and switch on and go to settings button at top right of unity desktop click and select printers.
Click Add
Select device from list and click forward
Leaving "Select printer from database" selected choose "Lexmark" and then click forward
Select Z600 v1.0-1 driver
Rename device and description to your liking and apply.
Reboot
Go printing.
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