Hello,
Have you managed to get any kind of reply from Tim Engler ? As I said before I
never managed to get anything out of the guy at all - ever !!! I discovered
this driver back in Feburary. I reported a couple of bugs to him, but nothing
was done about them. It would be nice if we all had access to the software
source.
I haven't tried your CUPS integration yet.
To those having trouble getting it working with lpr and rhs-printfilters :
Black and white printing has never worked.
It is a pain to setup ! Follow Tim's instructions to the letter !!! Then, if it
still doesn't work go back to step 1 and start again !!! It takes perseverance
!!! I seem to recall even trying previous versions of lpr and rhs-printfilters
! By the time I had got it working the colour cartridge had dried up !
When you have it working the last sheet of the print job will not eject !
You'll have to get it out manually !
Apart from that it is excellent. I have had no trouble with poor printing
quality or colour definition etc.. Top marks to Tim for reverse engineering it
in the first place.
Owen
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Oi,
>
> I have uploaded lm1100-1.0-1mdk to the cooker which is a driver for the
> Lexmark 1xxx printers. It is a filter which catches bitmap output from
> GhostScript. I ask all owners of the appropriate printers to test it.
>
> The tests I have done which showed me that this driver works under CUPS
> without any problems:
>
> 1. Installed CUPS (Common Unix Printing System, new print spooler,
> www.cups.org):
>
> /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm
> /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm
> /cooker/RPMS/ghostscript-module-X-5.50-16mdk.i586.rpm
> /cooker/RPMS/cups-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm
> /cooker/RPMS/cups-drivers-0.3.6-4mdk.noarch.rpm
> /cooker/RPMS/xpp-0.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
>
> 2. Installed Lexmark 1100 driver
>
> /cooker/RPMS/lm1100-1.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> 3. Entered the CUPS administration interface:
>
> http://localhost:631/printers/
>
> and clicked on "Add printer".
>
> Chose "xxx" as printer name, nothing for location and discription,
> "Disk file" as device, "file:/tmp/lm1100.prn" as URI, "LEXMARK" as
> printer manufacturer and "Lexmark 1100" as printer.
>
> 4. Back on http://localhost:631/printers/ I clicked on the "Print
> Test Page" button. After waiting a bit I had a /tmp/lm1100.prn
> file.
>
> 5. To check whether this file would really lead to the correct
> I started the Lexmark printer emulator script
>
> lexmark2ppm.pl /tmp/lm1100.prn /tmp/lmtest
>
> and displayed the /tmp/lmtest*.ppm files with xv. Please read
> also /usr/share/doc/lm1100-1.0/README because the file will not
> look like an original printout.
>
> If someone has a real Lexmark 1100, he should choose the parallel port
> as device in step 3 and look at the printout in step 5. I am also very
> grateful if someone tests this driver under LPD.
>
> What is also missing is the triggering of installation of extra driver
> packages as this one if they are necessary.
>
> Till
