There are some Japanese-market-only printers with firmware especially
made for the demands of the Japanese language. These do not support
PostScript or PCL but use a proprietary printer language. Probably your
printer is such a device and the LP-M5000 is perhaps the same hardware
but with a firmware for the US and Europe. So you will need the
manufacturer-supplied driver.

The problem you encounter with it is that you are on a 64-bit system and
the driver -s 32-bit. Check whether you can download a 64-bit driver and
use that one. If there is none, try to install the "ia32-libs" package
which provides 32-bit binaries of the most important libraries. See also
the possibilities for architecture overrides in the dpkg and dpkg-
buildpackage utilities.

As a last mean you could set up a virtual machine running a Ubuntu
Server Edition set up as a print server and install the 32-bit driver
there.

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Driver for Epson LP-5500 series missing
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