Forget about prettying up the GUI or adding new A/V bells and whistles. Until the Linux community makes a concerted effort to standardize the availability of printer drivers that install cleanly and actually work (as they do with Win and Mac), Linux will stay in the fringe and be largely useless for the majority of its potential user base.

You wrote in your tutorial, that the z33-printer needs a z35 driver, but I can’t find such a driver in the list… (ubuntu 8.10)

What should I do?

@ I.Pereira
Can you provide me with any error messages you get so I can take a look at what is going on

@Cecil
The download should go into the lexmark folder you created. The command before you download the drivers asks you to switch to the lexmark folder and then run the wget command.

What happens when you try downloading the driver?

Can you help me please.

Sorry the poor english

IPereira

@martinrnelson, I am also using kUbuntu. try looking through all the menu’s to find something, that is what I had to do.

also, my understanding is that the only difference between kUbuntu and Ubuntu is what software comes bundled, and the desktop environment(kde). not really a big programming change.

@martinrnelson
This tutorial was written for Ubuntu and not the KUbuntu version. I don’t use KUbuntu so not sure off the top of my head why this would cause a problem. I will try and grab some time to try and set this up under the KUbuntu version but please don’t hold your breath, I am snowed under at present and have not even posted here for a while.

Apologies to all for the late responses.

I’m installing a Lexmark X1150 on kubuntu 8.04. All the steps above seem to work (I get the correct output at the last step), but when I go to select the driver I get the error:

Wrong driver format.
/usr/lib/cups/backend/z600(line 1): syntax error, unexpected OPTION

I’m selecting this via System Settings > Printers > Admin Mode > Change Driver…

(also the manufacturer and model list are blank here, despite the printer itself being visible).

Any ideas?

it just spits this back:
Cannot write to current directory. Try moving to /tmp and re-running alien.

does anyone know what to do in this scenario?

Sorry to hear you are having trouble. Unfortunately this tutorial is not as advanced as network printing. I have a set up for network printing using a very basic printer, but the All In One is somewhat difficult to get working.

I will post a tutorial on how to do it once I finish getting it working, but please don’t wait on me, it could be some time before I get round to actually changing over.

The printer just sets the page and and then nothing.

That command as you put it should be separate commands rather than one lump. If you follow the tutorial again from the beginning everything should work fine.

If you have any other issues just ask.

I left that out of the tutorial as the scope was a little advanced for what I intended.

Thank you for posting your comment and letting the others know what you had to do. I did not have to worry myself as I installed it for other reasons, but did and have come across it when setting this printer up for other people.

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 sudo tar xvzf z600cups-1.0.tgz

I looked into my directory the file lexmark in the Home Folder, and I did not find anything in it.
What must I do??
Thanks

Thank you for spotting that. I have now updated the post to remove that little dot.

Many thanks

Thanks,
Mike

Follow the tutorial step by step and you will soon be up and running.