Has anyone got a Lexmark Z51 working?

[Wedge_]

I've had a look on the forums here and at linuxprinting.org, checked Google, and tried all kinds of things to get it working, but it's not cooperating

The page at linuxprinting.org recommends a third party Ghostscript driver, which means that Ghostscript has to be recompiled to include the new driver, and this is where I'm getting stuck. The instructions on the page are focused on Redhat and RPM's, and are for Ghostscript 6.0, not 7.05 or whatever the current version is. The site also offers the driver source and a few patches so that you can compile it yourself, but the initial patch seems to be cut off near the start. You can see it here: http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/lexmark/lexmark.html, near the bottom of the page. If I try and use it, it doesn't do anything, just hangs until I cancel it. So that doesn't work.

I also had a look at the readme for the Lexmark 3200 package, which is included in the GS ebuild. It tells you to copy the driver into the ghostscript source tree, and edit contrib.mak and unix-gcc.mak to add the driver specific information. I tried adapting the settings it gave for the driver I have, and compiled Ghostscript, but it looks like it just ignored the driver, as it's not listed when I do "gs -h".

I'd really appreciate any help

[prberens]

I have a LexmarkZ52 working using cups 1.1.14 and gimp-print-cups-4.2.0 with no problems. The new versions of the packages do not work. It seems they are missing the proper GS driver This combination should work for you too.

Once upon a time I used the Lexmark rpm with mixed results under SuSE 8.0. But thier driver often failed to work!

I much prefer cups/gimp-print with Gentoo