Talk:Lexmark Printers DEPRECATED

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I'm not sure if the z600 section where you manually make symlinks in /usr/lib is necessary. Doesn't ldconfig do the same thing? Someone ought to test this out.



Well gee, thanks for all the great commentary. I'll just remove the directions and insert an ldconfig instead. If it breaks, revert it.


WOW!!!! I just love this howto! Greatly reduced my time spending a search for it on the forum to ... uhm... zero :-) Q-collective 23:09, 21 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Heh, thanks, knew it'd help somebody. I'd worked for hours on end scouring the forums trying to find how to make my darn X1100 to work, so I figured I'd save people the trouble and write this up.

Any luck getting this to work on non intel arch?

Looks pretty bad.. Any success or failure stories ppc, solaris, etc...?

Cheers :-)

Crap...newer versions of CUPS and ghostscript prevent this driver to show up on the CUPS web interface. Any smart fellows want to help me find a workaround? :-(

Nevermind, found one myself :-) Really simple actually, just a bit of gunzip'ping...

I have to admit that it doesnt work for me. The HowTo is great anyway i want to say :) Ok... my prob is that the backend test fails, i get no output when runnning /usr/share/cups/backend/z600 - I have the z612, i can see it with lsusb: ID 043d:0078 Lexmark blabla, so usb is ok and it wont help trying z700 or so, right!? I tried a few things like restarting cups etc. , has anybody an idea?? - --217.224.168.51 17:55, 17 Feb 2005 (GMT)

I had the same problem until I found http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-367265-highlight-dev+usb+lp0.html . Simply put, you don't have a /dev/usb/lp0. Go to /usr/src/linux, make menuconfig, Device Drivers > USB Support > Set USB Printer Support as Module. Exit, save kernel, make modules, make modules_install, modprobe usblp. Redo the last tar -xvzf step, ldconfig, and voila - you should have that message :D MonsterOfTheLake 05:24, 12 Aug 2005 (GMT)

Contents

[edit] Thanks....

Was getting concerned about using a Dell 720 printer I got with a Dell computer I bought for my mom. I wasn't sure it was going to be possible. Somehow found this HOWTO and followed the steps. Printing fine in Slackware. Thanks.

What an awesome article, thank you so much! I would have never thought to use the z600 driver for my z515. You deserve much praise. -Chris Harrington


Tried a test page - the printer's light just started flashing. I started to swear, but then... there was no paper! Thanks so much!

Also: I edited the "Workaround" bit a little to make it easier to follow. Maybe someone who know how to use this Wikipedia thing could go back to make it look prettier.

[edit] Now how do I wake it up?

This worked great for my z615, my last remaining annoyance is that my wife and kids hit the power button from time to time which sends the printer to sleep. If someone sends a print job to it when it is asleep, nothing gets printed and the print job gets sent to the ether. Either that or if rush to turn it on you may get the last half of the print job. Any ideas how to wake the printer up prior to sending the print job?

[edit] Thank you!

I was almost on the point of buying a new printer. I am a Debian user, so I had to interpret a few things, but I've just managed to print using Linux for the first time, and can almost kiss goodbye to Windows. Here's some kisses for you guys xxx

[edit] ebuild

What about supplying an ebuild? I made one and uploaded it to Ucpt:Net-print/lexmark-z600/lexmark-z600-1.0.1.ebuild. See HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds for how to use it. This ebuild can be used for the z35, z55, z65 and z600 driver, just give it one of these names: 

${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-print/lexmark-z35/lexmark-z35-2.0.1.ebuild
${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-print/lexmark-z55/lexmark-z55-1.0.1.ebuild
${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-print/lexmark-z65/lexmark-z65-1.0.1.ebuild
${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-print/lexmark-z600/lexmark-z600-1.0.1.ebuild

Unfortunately, the driver still does not work for me. I can print the raw test pages, but the /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600 program fails with "ERROR: Cannot Process Raster". Does anyone know this problem, or even solved it? --Speleo3 23:50, 8 February 2006 (GMT)

Yes, the web solved your problem. The ebuild has a bug causing those "Cannot Process Raster" messages in the error.log It is missing a line in the src_install section. The whole section should read: 

  src_install() {
     chmod 755 usr/local/z600llpddk/*
     mv usr ${D}/ || die "could not move /usr"
     dodoc COPYING README
  }

If you don't use the ebuild for installing simply type the follwing: 

  chmod 755 /usr/local/z600llpddk/*

With this modification printing works fine on my Dell Photo Printer 720 with CUPS --80.129.19.101 11:42, 1 April 2006 (GMT)

I updated the ebuild like you suggested, but it didn't solve my problem. I still get these "Cannot Process Raster" errors :-( --Speleo3

Good day to all,

I've been really struggling to get a All-in-one Lexmark Photo P3150 to work in my Gentoo. I've followed the tutorial http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12479/ (there is even one report of getting this thing to work), but when I try to print the test page, it gives the error 

[18/Mar/2006:13:00:22 -0300] Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 6!
I [18/Mar/2006:13:00:22 -0300] Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed?
I [18/Mar/2006:13:00:22 -0300] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug".
I [18/Mar/2006:13:00:25 -0300] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=26337)

My Ghostscript version: app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8 +X -cjk +cups -emacs +gtk My CUPS version: net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4 -gnutls +nls +pam +samba -slp +ssl

I've searched the Gentoo forums and found this: 

It suggests that the wrong PPDs are installed since 
it can't render output for your printer.

(taken from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110232)

So, my questions:

  • Has anyone here made this printer work with Gentoo?
  • Does anyone know where I can find a PPD driver that can be used with Lexmark Photo P3150?

Thanks a lot!

Mairabc 16:08, 18 March 2006 (GMT)

Update:

It's working now! I'm going to post in the article the tutorial for Gentoo, even though the one in http://users.cybercity.dk/~dko12479/ works fairly well.

Mairabc 18:39, 20 March 2006 (GMT)

Hello

I have a Lexmark X7170. I search a ppd file, too. Have someone a way to print with Linux on a X7170. I couldn't use the printer with the LLPDDK Libraries, because I don't know what I do with the libraries.

Wuid--84.151.0.37 14:32, 19 March 2006 (GMT)

The installation instructions for the P3150 are almost the same for the Z705. Do you all think it's better to keep just one? I'm sorry for this, I just noticed they were the same after mine was all written and posted. If you want to, clean it up, I won't mind =) Maybe we could merge them... They complement each other, I think.

Mairabc 19:25, 20 March 2006 (GMT)

you are right! But not only the last two sections, but rather all the article could be cleand up, I think. See my suggestion below. --Speleo3


[edit] suggestion for cleanup

This HOWTO is very helpful, but I think it has much to much text which is quite redundant. This is confusing and makes it hard to find the information that is actually crucial. I made an (quite radical) cleanup of the article and saved it to

Lexmark_Printers_SUGGESTION_FOR_REPLACEMENT

If no one complains (or better: If some people could give their acknowledgment here), I will replace this article soon. --Speleo3 11:08, 22 March 2006 (GMT)

Finally replaced the article and the discussion. Moved old article to Lexmark_Printers_DEPRECATED --Speleo3 06:21, 11 April 2006 (GMT)
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