Install Lexmark Printers (Ubuntu)

This tutorial will guide you through installing Lexmark printers on Ubuntu. The tutorial was taken from the Ubuntu forums. I decided to post it here as it did not work exactly like it was supposed to for me and I had to modify the procedure.

I have ammended the tutorial to my needs and probably the needs of most and I have pointed out where it went wrong for me and how I solved it. It was not difficult to solve, but you will be required to be the ROOT user which is dangerous and destructive. Use at your own risk, I take NO responsibility for you damaging your system.

You will of course need to download the correct drivers for this, the Z600 driver. I have the correct link for the file as Lexmarks website is not the easiest to navigate around and find what you need.

The Z600 driver has been confirmed to work with the following printers:

Lexmark 5700 (black & white only)
Lexmark X1100
Lexmark X1110
Lexmark X1130
Lexmark X1140
Lexmark X1150
Lexmark X1180
Lexmark X1185
Lexmark Z513
Lexmark Z515
Lexmark Z715
Lexmark Z55
Lexmark Z615
Lexmark Z705
Lexmark Z605
Lexmark Z600
Lexmark Z25
Dell A920
Z65 (z65 driver)
Lexmark Z33 (z35 driver)
Lexmark Z33 (z35 driver)

First of all you need to download the correct driver to a folder of it’s own to save confusion.

Open a terminal window and type the following

sudo mkdir lexmark

This will create a folder called “lexmark” in your home directory.

Ok, again in your terminal window, type the following commands one after another, waiting for each command to execute first before starting the next one.

cd lexmark

wget http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilecache/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz

tar -xvzf install.tar.gz

sudo apt-get install alien

alien -t z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm

alien -t z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm

sudo tar xvzf z600llpddk-2.0.tgz -C /

sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz -C /

sudo ldconfig

cd /usr/share/cups/model

sudo gunzip Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz

The driver is now installed. Restart the cups daemon:

sudo /etc/rc2.d/S19cupsys restart

Check to make sure the printer back-end works:

cd /usr/lib/cups/backend

./z600

The output of the above command should be similar to this:

direct z600:/dev/usb/lp0 “Lexmark Lexmark Z600 Series” “Lexmark Printer”

If you get no output, mount the usb filesystem. To do this type the following:

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

and add the following code to the end of the file

#USB Lexmark Printer
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=14,devmode=0660 0 0

Save the file and close. Then just type the following in the terminal:

sudo mount usbfs

That should fix it.

Now simply set up your printer. Go to:

• System
• Administration
• Printing

Make sure you select the z600 driver, and you’re done. Print out a test page to make sure it all works.

I hope this has helped you.