HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[ivuntu]

This is probably an old post, but thanks a lot from an ubuntu newbie for the detailed recipe, it worked on my Lexmark p707, where a lot of other drivers and stuff had failed! I might have missed a step or two in other How to's.
Ivuntu

[dcriswell]

Thanks for the great HOWTO!
Just FYI, the new sane-backend (1.0.17 I think) has support for lexmark x1100 series scanners. I just tested it, using the CVS version, with my x1150 and it works like a charm.

[manicka]

Thanks for the great HOWTO!
Just FYI, the new sane-backend (1.0.17 I think) has support for lexmark x1100 series scanners. I just tested it, using the CVS version, with my x1150 and it works like a charm.

That is good news, where would i find it?

[mips]

http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/

[dcriswell]

I'm actually using the lexmark backend. It is supposed to be in the 1.0.17 release from Sane. They have debian packages available from their download page although I haven't tried them. Instructions on how to get the CVS version is there as well. I had to upgrade xsane to 0.99.1 in order to scan in gimp. Scanimage worked with just the backend installed.

[manicka]

I'm actually using the lexmark backend.

Where would I find the Lexmark backend?

[arunsub]

Did anyone find the driver for X7170 model?

[johnmxl]

I followed the HOWTO to the letter and sucessfully added the X1185 attached to one of the WinXP boxes on my home LAN as a network printer for my laptop running Breezy Badger (Ubuntu 5.10). Including a detour to install alien it probably took 20 minutes start to finish.

I found the HOWTO on google, searching on 'ubuntu X1185'.

Thanks, Black Hole Sun!

johnmxl

[BrejoSacor]

Great How-to, but maybe it should be mentioned to do this command first:
sudo apt-get install alien

I realized this and found it in the middle of the post... Maybe add it to the first post, or stick it to the top of the forum...

Anyway, couldn't have done it with out ya, Thanks

[funkjunkie]

i just cant seem to get past this part:

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

i tried this too
sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /usr/share/cups/model
seemed to do the same.

it seems to go thru and say its extracting files to the proper places, but when i go to the next steps and look in that dir, the files just are not to be found.

argh. @$!% dell printer. my hp worked w/o a hitch.