Terry Polzin wrote:
If it isn't listed on http://www.linuxprinting.org you are going to have to
use a manufacturer supplied driver Lexmark isn't exactly Linux friendly in my
experience.
Thanks for the pointer Terry. The foomatic kit seems to have worked
... a little. I've posted a message on their forums but I'll re-post it
here as well in case anyone else has any suggestions:
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Okay, so I grabbed the foomatic kit for this printer and got it working
... kinda. I can print some things but it's erratic at best. I'm able
to print out of OpenOffice Writer with some success, but usually it just
sits there and
does nothing. When I look at the job queue though CUPS, it says the
jobs's there, but nothing's happening - in fact I let it just sit there
over night and nothing happened. Is there anything I can do to diagnose
this problem? At this point I can't print anything anymore and killing
the tasks don't seem to do anything - I simply can't print anymore and
would have to completely restart the machine to be able to print again.
And even that is sketchy at best, it might or might not work after a
reboot. When a print job gets "stuck", this is what I see in my process
list:
2756 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice -writer
2766 ? Sl 0:12
/usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/swriter.bin -writer
2781 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 9 root SHAWN, P 1 PageSize=Letter
job-uuid=urn:uuid:578afce8-b2df-36b5-454a-7b5a01a6ed3d
2784 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 9 root SHAWN, P 1 PageSize=Letter
job-uuid=urn:uuid:578afce8-b2df-36b5-454a-7b5a01a6ed3d
2785 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 9 root SHAWN, P 1 PageSize=Letter
job-uuid=urn:uuid:578afce8-b2df-36b5-454a-7b5a01a6ed3d
2786 ? S 0:00 sh -c lexmarkwrapper -r 600 -t 0 -c CMYK -m
z33 -i business -d 5 -p /dev/usb/lp0 -A 7 -B 8 -C 16 -D 16 > /dev/null
2787 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/lexmarkwrapper -r 600
-t 0 -c CMYK -m z33 -i business -d 5 -p /dev/usb/lp0 -A 7 -B 8 -C 16 -D 16
2788 ? S 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/foomatic-gswrapper -q -dBATCH
-dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -r600 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=- - |
/usr/local/lexmark/z33/z33 --config z23-z33.conf --mediasize 0
--mediatype 0 --resolution Normal --intent business --output CMYK
--halftone 5 --align 7,8,16,16 --dotcounts > /dev/usb/lp0
2789 ? S 0:00 sh -c gs '-dBATCH' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dSAFER'
'-r600' '-sDEVICE=ppmraw' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
2790 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/lexmark/z33/z33 --config
z23-z33.conf --mediasize 0 --mediatype 0 --resolution Normal --intent
business --output CMYK --halftone 5 --align 7,8,16,16 --dotcounts
2791 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/lexmark/z33/z33 --config
z23-z33.conf --mediasize 0 --mediatype 0 --resolution Normal --intent
business --output CMYK --halftone 5 --align 7,8,16,16 --dotcounts
2792 ? S 0:00 gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -r600
-sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 /dev/fd/0
Any suggestions anyone?
