Paul Penrod wrote:
Folks,
I've been helping a friend convert their Windows machine to SuSE...
Has anyone successfully installed the Lexmark Z600 inkjet (USB) under SuSE 9.2 ?
Oh, before I forget, it's SuSE installed on a Sony VAIO w/256MB and P4-2.4Ghz.
I have spent many hours over the last 3 days with no joy.
Basically, I installed CUPS and it did not find the printer, but it did find "on" out there on /dev/usblp0 and would not configure it properly. Seaching the web, I found Thorton's Home Page where he describes installing a Dell A920 (Z600 printer rebranded), but for RedHat 9.0.
Next, I dropped over to Lexmark's site and read what I could there under the Linux DDK and grabbed a copy of the PPD they had there for the Z600 series. The version of CUPS installed is 1.1.21-16 (latest as of last week). After following Thorton's directions, I got the PPD installed in /usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark and CUPS found it on the next pass.
The printer installs just fine (according to YAST), but will not respond to test pages, etc.
Next I fired up CUPS via http://localhost:631 and walked through the manager: A) stopping and restarting the printer. B) resumitting a test page C) Deleting and recreating the printer. Still no luck.
I checked the permissions on /dev/usb/lp0 and /dev/usblp0 and both allow "rw".
Is there anything else I can try, or something I missed?
This is the last piece of the puzzle for him to have a fully functional machine that's better than he last saw it.
Thanls in advance,
...Paul
Well, first of all, there is no Z600 on the Lexmark homepage (at least I couldn't find it, so might you have swollowed a letter, f.e. Z605?). Then, I had basically the same problem, but with my Optra S1650, which is a laser printer. I could print something to it successfully even without any print system. But I "knew" that it is a PostScript printer. So I took such a file and "printed" it through the device (/dev/lp0 in my case). You might try to take such a PostScript file and copy it directly to your correspinding device (in your case as you write /dev/usb/lp0). If it is a PostScript printer (which I couldn't check since I didn't find it) it should print fine just that file. If it is another kind of printer you might just execute "echo 'Hi printer, it is me, your master :-D' >/dev/usb/lp0". If it can handle text directly, it should/will show it on paper. If the above happens to be successfull you simply need to install the corresponding driver from Lexmark to get it to work through CUPS or whatever. Let me know about your progress and Good Luck Martin