HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[LMelior]

Wow, works with my Lexmark X1270, excellent stuff!

Note to several members of this thread (if they're still around) - if your printer is already on the list when you go to System>Administration>Printing (that's in 6.06), try that first!!!

Also, to swa2b41, in the instructions it gives an optional line to move the downloaded tar.gz file to the newly created lexmark folder. If you did that line, you have to do:

cd lexmark

right afterwards so you can start working with the files from that directory.

One last hint to avoid spelling mistakes, when you get to long confusing names, type the first letter or two and hit <TAB>, or just highlight the individual commands on the first page, bring up your terminal window and click your mouse wheel (the wonderful copy and paste method that I always miss when I'm in Windows).

[Seiti]

Nice tutorial!
It did make my Z645 works under Ubuntu Edgy. But I had to give the PPD file path, when asked by printing dialogs, to make the z600 model available on the items list.

[doctrdev]

UG!! PLEASE HELP

I followed the instructions to the LETTER! NOTHING but error messages.. and why does it ask me for a password? I am already logged in as an administrator...

devin@devin-desktop:~$ mkdir lexmark
mkdir: cannot create directory `lexmark': File exists
devin@devin-desktop:~$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark #
mv: cannot stat `CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz': No such file or directory
devin@devin-desktop:~$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz #
tar: CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
devin@devin-desktop:~$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz #
tail: cannot open `z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh' for reading: No such file or directory
devin@devin-desktop:~$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz #

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
devin@devin-desktop:~$ alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm #
bash: alien: command not found
devin@devin-desktop:~$ alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm #
bash: alien: command not found
devin@devin-desktop:~$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C / #
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:

[Mickus]

Thanks, works perfectly with my X1110. Could not at first find the new installed z600 driver.Found it finally in: /usr/share/cups/model

[Feenix3k]

I found that my Dell A920 will work in 6.06 using these instructions

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupp...rs/LexmarkZ605

I never could get it to work in 6.10, so I went back to 6.06

[gnat79]

Hi,

I have followed all the directions to the part where I run ./z600. I get no output. I have mounted usbfs as shown, and that still doesn't change it. Can anyone suggest more ideas? Thanks

[Fleetness]

I had a little different setup, I was connecting to a Lexmark 510 series printer attached to a windows XP box on my home network.

This howto works to the point where you try to use System/Administration/Printers to setup the printer. It would never show the driver and if you tried to install it, it would say that it was already installed.

I got some help from this post http://www.aquarionics.com/article/n...r_Debian_Linux

The default printer utility doesn't allow you to setup the printer. You can set it up by connecting to http://localhost:631 and using the web admin interface to setup your printer. I set mine up to connect to the printer using smb://WindowsXPcomputerName/PrinterName
as the URI and then choosing the z600 driver in /usr/share/cups/model directory. This set the printer up and I could then print to it.

The default Gnome printer utility is a little brain dead and never shows the new printer driver or allows you to manually choose it. Using the Cups web admin interface gives you much better control and selection in setting the printer up correctly under Feisty Fawn Beta.

So to use this howto under Edgy or Feisty, follow it till the end and Don't try to use the Gnome printer setup utility, Use the Cups web interface at the end of the tutorial by connecting to http:/localhost:631 to do the final configuration after you have the z600 driver installed.

[trigggl]

For those who are still getting the scanner to work for a X1100 series AIO, this is the small step that often gets left out. The standard setup for sane looks for the scanner at /dev/usb/scanner0. The answer that I always find for this is don't use udev. What?!

It's such an easy fix once someone actually takes the time to put out there. Sane looks for the scanner based on the config file for the scanner in /etc/sane.d/lexmark.conf. Guess what that file says:

/dev/usb/scanner0

So, I assume that's where the scanner is supposed to be. No. To find out where the scanner really is, look in the file /etc/sane.d/hotplug/libsane.db.

In there, you will see that the X1100 scanners are at:

0x043d 0x007c

To make a long story short, your /etc/sane.d/lexmark.conf file (or wherever Ubuntu puts it, I run Debian) should have this one line in it:

usb 0x043d 0x007c

So, to repeat. Here's what I did.

$su
Password:
#vi /etc/sane.d/lexmark.conf

Then I deleted the line that reads "usb /dev/usb/scanner0" by hitting "dd", type "i" to insert, typed in the line above, hit escape to get out of insert mode and typed in ":wq".

Then just make sure you exit out of root before trying scanimage or xsane or anything.

For some reason my X1150 still won't scan, but it does something to let me know Debian found it.

I guess it's more appropriate to say that usb 0x043d 0x007c is what the vendor code for the scanner is. Linux will find it based off of you telling it what the vendor ID is even though it already knows that something with the ID of 0x043d 0x007c is connected to it.

Scanner access now easy.

Edit: If you don't want to look through config files, the vendor ID can be located with "lsusb -v". Of course that produces a rather large output and there's more than one ID on the X1100.

[herbster]

Ok. I tried all of that already. The way you have it laid out but once i get to the part you extract it using the tail command everything just fails. Can you help me? Maybe tell me why my Lexmark X1185 isnt working?

Yeah, I get lots of really funky, wierdo output when I run the tail command, it just keeps going, I don't know what to do. Someone help??

[BHelts]

Thank you very much. I got my Lexmark x1150 that is connected to my wife's xp box working across the wireless. I too had to manually install the .ppd to get z600 on the list, but once that happened it worked perfectly. Thanks again.