HOWTO: Lexmark Printers

[vinil]

thank man¡¡¡ it has very useful for me.... i have a dell a920 , and it works great..

[arunsub]

Does anyone have any solution to my Lexmar X7170 problem? I would appreciate if someone can help me install the driver.

[dinap1]

What about the scanner feature of Lexmark X1180 ?

Has anyone managed to solve this problem?

[manicka]

What about the scanner feature of Lexmark X1180 ?

Has anyone managed to solve this problem?

Lexmark support is poor in Linux. This problem hasn't been solved because Lexmark won't help out with the drivers.

It drives me batty. I'm not sure we'll ever see a satisfactory outcome with Lexmark

[SunshineSmile]

I can't tell you how much I have been trying to get my z601 work. I can get all the way to the very last step, but I get no output. Oh, I had to type sudo before the alien command. Without superuser do, it says something about not running from root and how the files may be focked. :

K, have a look at my commands, and tell me what you think could be the reason why my z 601 wont print.

Even without the last step displaying the wanted output, the printer setup under "system" recognised the driver and printer. It just wont print. Bummer. And I need to use it now..


myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ cd ..
myname@hostname:~/Desktop$ mv CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz lexmark
myname@hostname:~/Desktop$ cd lexmark
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz
COPYING
README
z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ tar -xvzf install.tar.gz
globals.tcl
install
lexinstall
lexinstall.tcl
license
setup.tcl
testpage
usb.tcl
xlexinstall
xlexinstall.tcl
z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ sudo alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
Password:
z600cups-1.0.tgz generated
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ sudo alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
z600llpddk-2.0.tgz generated
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /
./
./usr/
./usr/include/
./usr/include/lexmark/
./usr/include/lexmark/alignmentdata.h
./usr/include/lexmark/cartridgemanager.h
./usr/include/lexmark/cartridgeuserinterface.h
./usr/include/lexmark/cleaningdata.h
./usr/include/lexmark/clock.h
./usr/include/lexmark/errorcommunicator.h
./usr/include/lexmark/linuxinkjetprinter.h
./usr/include/lexmark/mediamanager.h
./usr/include/lexmark/portmonitor.h
./usr/include/lexmark/printerdevice.h
./usr/include/lexmark/printjobmanager.h
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.a
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.la
./usr/lib/liblexprinter.so.0.0.0
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.a
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.la
./usr/lib/liblexprintjob.so.0.0.0
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.a
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.la
./usr/lib/liblexz600core.so.0.0.0
./usr/local/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi1.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi2.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/bnsi3.lut
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/lxbcalgn.out
./usr/local/z600llpddk/utility/lxbccln.out
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C /
./
./usr/
./usr/lib/
./usr/lib/cups/
./usr/lib/cups/backend/
./usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
./usr/lib/cups/filter/
./usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
./usr/share/
./usr/share/cups/
./usr/share/cups/model/
./usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ sudo ldconfig
myname@hostname:~/Desktop/lexmark$ cd /usr/share/cups/model
myname@hostname:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
gunzip: Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? y
myname@hostname:/usr/share/cups/model$ /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd start-stop-daemon: Unable to open pidfile `/var/run/cups/cupsd.pid' for writing: Permission denied (Permission denied)
[ ok ]
myname@hostname:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart
* Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd [ ok ]
myname@hostname:/usr/share/cups/model$ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend
myname@hostname:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ ./z600
./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What THE HELL does that mean????? HELP, please...

[manicka]

You need to install libstdc++5

[franohern]

If you get no output at all, you have problems.

What knid of problems? Did I do something wrong? Is there anything I can do?

I have a dell a940 that I tried this on. I was able to get through everything in your how-to, but got no response on the last step. I was able to set up a new printer with that driver, the system sees my a940, but nothing happens when I try to print a test page.

Now, it may be that it won't work with an a940, but if I got no output from that last step, then I can't be sure whether I've done everything right and whether this is a no go for my printer.

I would appreciate any help or suggestions you can give me.

Thanks,
Fran

[jimmyj]

I followed the directions, but when I try to run ./z600 nothing happens. Where should I start looking for problems?

[TmP]

Hi!
Everything works fine untill i try to run the administration > printing

I receive a prompt saying that i cant connect to cups,
Or when I'm on the internet, it simply doesn't run...

Another person had this problem.
I'm using Breezy and my printer is z515

Help!

[Ubuntist]

I'm trying to install a Z55 under Breezy. Following the instructions worked fine until I got to testing the backend by executing ./z600. First, I got the error message

./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot op en shared object file: No such file or directory

Following a suggestion from matthewv, I used Synaptic to load libstdc++5, and that solved the problem. Now, however, executing the backend produces no output at all. Any hints on where to go from here?