On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 03:15, ghwb wrote: > Tinus Kotzé wrote: > > Good day > > I am setting up my first USB device. It is the Lexmark z25 printer. > > Under kprinter(add local printer) it is listed under the usb devices as > > a lexmark z25_z35 printer. Everything seems fine, accept that if I print > > a page, it never seems to appear in the job queue of cups. In console I > > tried echo foo.txt > /dev/usb/lp0 and it just gives me the prompt again, > > but with lp[1..x] it gives an error of no device so I am concluding that > > the device is on lp0. I am running debian unstable kernel 2.4.20 and is > > using cups as interface for my printing. > > > > Can anybody help me please? I tried googling but couldn;t find an > > answer, except that the printer may not be usable under linux which I > > will not accept ;-) > > > > I have also tried the drivers from lexmark's site, but it seems to be > > rpm based and I am not clued up enough in linux to work around the > > script and use alien to try install the rpm. > > > > Regards > > Tinus > > > > > > You should be able to apt-get rpm to install rpm, then use the lexmark > rpm driver (with --nodeps to force installation over objections), then > check linuxprinting.org to see if there is a lexmark-foomatic-kit for > your printer, and check the lexmark mail list on linuxprinting.org. > After tons of effort, I finally have my z32 working. But, it's not > perfect and I still have to do some printing from M$. > Thanx for the advice. The problem is that the driver from lexmark is a script file combined with the gzipped rpm and I don't think I can add the paramater. I will try later today when I have time to maybe fool the program with a link.
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