On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Weston M. Price wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to get my FreeBSD 4.7 Stable system working with my Z23 Lexmark
printer. I enabled support for USB printers in the kernel and was able to
rebuild and install with no problem. dmesg correctly reports the existence of
the device. However, I am sort of stuck at this point. I am not really sure
what I should do next, the handbook does not explicitly reference USB
printers. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate
it. It would be nice to get this working since it is such a cheap printer.
The alternative would be for me to install the printer on my WindowsXP box
(really my girlfriends machine) and print across the network.
Regards,
Weston
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That entire Z-series of Lexmark printers are the printer equivalent of a
Winmodem. They rely on the host OS to do some of the processing; that's
why they are so cheap.
Lexmark does release Linux drivers for them. I have a Z52 working fine on
Linux using gimp-print (without the Lexmark drivers) and I have no idea
whatsoever how to transfer the configuration to FreeBSD. I was only able
to make it work because RH Mandrake has some gui printer wizards that
make it brainless. If I had known it was a winprinter I wouldn't have bought it; this
info isn't
documented anywhere on the website.
The Z52 is allegedly the ONLY such winprinter that works reliably with free software
drivers.
You might try reading up on gimp-print and the CUPS printing system.
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