On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:26:30 -0500 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been using a lexmarkz53 for perhaps a year. It works great. > The lexmark provided drivers work fine. I get excellent color photos > with them. > > I use this printer attached to my linux box to provide print services > to win98 and xp clients, as well as to the linux boxes. I don't use > any lexmark windows drivers, but send all the jobs to the linux box as > postscript jobs. This avoids headaches and provide excellent results. > > I use lprng and samba. The printer is on the parallel port. > > If I try cat file > /dev/lp0, nothing happens, either. This printer > ignores plain text files sent to it like this. That seems to be a > feature. I think you have to use the lexmark or other specific driver > for this printer. > > In the stepbystep I wrote about print filters, I dissect the lexmark > filter(not the driver.) > > I think Kurt bought the same printer after my exclaiming over > the vendor provided drivers. > > So, what is the problem? What have you done so far? > > Joel > > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:24:26PM -0700, Collins wrote: > > Does anyone have one of these working on linux? > > > > I just moved mine over from my windows machine, and it's a boat > > anchor. > > Drat, I just got my epson 1660 scanner working, and nowhere to > > print. > > > > Even cat xxx >/dev/lp0 produces no response. > > > > Yes, lp0 was working with my hp lj1100. > > > > This printer has a USB plug, too, so I wonder if I'd get better > > results with a USB cable? CUPS has USB support. Steps taken: 1. Cable the printer 2. http://localhost:631/admin 3. Add printer scenario, selected parallel port, lexmark z53 and also tried z52, with same results 4. Print test page produces: The connection was refused when attempting to contact richeypc1.home.com (my hostname). I also tried changing parameters in cups.conf to <Location /> Order Deny,Allow Allow From All </Location> 5. cat xxx | lpr -P z53 prodcues no error messages that I can see. Tail of error_log is D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] UpdateJob: job 1, file 0 is complete. d [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] UpdateJob: Removing fd 3 from InputSet... D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] CancelJob: id = 1 D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: id = 1, force= 0 D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3 d [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: Freeing status buffer... This is with cups-1.1.17 gimp-print-cups-4.3.0. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area gentoo 1.4 system _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
