lexmark wireless printer z1520

**pooper** · April 23rd, 2008

Hi all, I've set up a lexmark z1520 wireless printer all working under apple and windows. I cant get anything to print from ubuntu. The printer is located, but ubuntu requires a driver. I can't find the correct driver, i've tried a few others but nothing gets sent to the printer. Does anyone have a solution ?

**wolfen69** · April 23rd, 2008

i found this http://www.opendrivers.com/freedownl...-download.html

**Thelasko** · April 23rd, 2008

That's a pretty new printer and Lexmark is slow to release Linux drivers. When they do release them they aren't very good.

My best suggestion is to download a z600 series driver, since it seems to be the most common. It's designed for Redhat so you will have to use a program called Alien to install it.

http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-per...Redhat&target=
Good Luck

**stchman** · April 23rd, 2008

Originally Posted by pooper

Hi all, I've set up a lexmark z1520 wireless printer all working under apple and windows. I cant get anything to print from ubuntu. The printer is located, but ubuntu requires a driver. I can't find the correct driver, i've tried a few others but nothing gets sent to the printer. Does anyone have a solution ?

The Lexmark z1420 is called a paperweight in Linux so the outlook is not good.

http://openprinting.org/show_printer...=Lexmark-Z1420

**flangemonkey** · September 3rd, 2008

Seems they are quite useless...

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From Lexmark UK Technical Support Team
Phone no. (UK) 02073652496, (IRE) 01 2421090
Monday to Friday 9 am to 5.30 pm.
Fax no. (UK) 02073653021 (IRE) 012421091

Dear Phillip,

Thank you for contacting Lexmark International.

Please accept my heartfelt apologies for the problems you are experiencing
with your Lexmark product. To the best of my knowledge, there are currently
no plans to develop Linux drivers for Debian / Red Hat drivers to support
this model. Thank you for notifying us of this request. I will forward your
comments on to our development department, as it is only through input from
you, our customers, that we can make these important business decisions.

Please let us know the results as we can assist you further.

Note: Please do not modify or delete the subject text and use the same
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If you have any further questions, please reply to this email in the usual
way or contact us at our Technical Support Centre on the number above.

Best regards,
Madhusudhan
Lexmark Technical Support Team

I might try my hand at getting an old 486/586 running windows XP as a print server taking in .ps files and putting out the files to print, wouldn't be hard on Linux so we'll see...