John Andersen wrote:

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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I have got my friend started on openSUSE 10.3 and one of the hassles he(we) are having is with his Z605 Lexmark (USB) printer which 10.3 doesn't appear to support. (He installed another distro and he had no problems with the printer.)

Anyone here using this printer and, if so, which driver in 10.3 is being used?

Ciao.

Have you tried just adding the windows ppd to cups? The have procedures for that, in yast, but its usually just as simple as putting the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd and setting up a printer in cups.

Or just copy the filter file from the other distro. USB/Serial Port/Parallel port doesn't matter... the kernel makes those all appear to be the same. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 03:51:40 am Johannes Meixner wrote:

Hello,

On Apr 5 23:59 Sam Clemens wrote (shortened):

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John Andersen wrote:

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Basil Chupin wrote:

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... openSUSE 10.3 ... ... Z605 Lexmark (USB) ... ... (He installed another distro and he had no problems with the printer.)

I wonder how it works for "another distro" because according to http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-Z600_series_z601_z6 02 there is no open source driver available.

In general regarding Lexmark, see http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/LinuxSupportByPrin terVendors "Useless ... Lexmark JetPrinters"

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Have you tried just adding the windows ppd to cups?

Only for real PostScript printers the PPD file alone is sufficient. All other printers require a driver, i.e. a program which produces the printer-specific data.

Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex

I know my Lexmark All-in-One x1200 printer works using the z600 PPD files, Lexmark made a RPM for RedHat 9 that contains the needed files. The RPM is built for an older version of CUPS and RPM won't install it without the --nodeps flag, but the driver works fine with CUPS 1.2.12. If you want to try it I can send you the RPM and a text file that has what I did to install it.

John Andersen wrote:

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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I have got my friend started on openSUSE 10.3 and one of the hassles he(we) are having is with his Z605 Lexmark (USB) printer which 10.3 doesn't appear to support. (He installed another distro and he had no problems with the printer.)

Anyone here using this printer and, if so, which driver in 10.3 is being used?

Ciao.

Have you tried just adding the windows ppd to cups? The have procedures for that, in yast, but its usually just as simple as putting the ppd in /etc/cups/ppd and setting up a printer in cups.

Thanks, John, we'll try this. Ciao. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Detlef Reichelt wrote:

Am Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:06:07 +1000 schrieb Basil Chupin :

[Z605 Lexmark]

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Anyone here using this printer and, if so, which driver in 10.3 is being used?

http://packman.links2linux.de/package/lexmark-drivers

Detlef

Thank you, thank you, Detlef! Wonderful stuff! :-) Ciao. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org