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Negated Void
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 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2003 12:40 am Post subject: Lexmark z22/z32 printer |
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Hello!
I have a lexmark z22 (but z32 = same thing) printer, and can't get it to work under gentoo.
Any hints?
linuxprinting.org has a foomatic kit for it, but that won't work wihtout the lexmark drivers installed.
they're a rpm and have a milion deps that aren't detected but are emerged.
There's a sourceforge project, but it's only got support for old postscript and i dun know how to install it.
http://lxm3200.sourceforge.net/
any help/clues/expierience? thanks!
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aja
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easykill
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I spent a week and a half trying to get my z22 working...
I had it working POORLY on several versions of mandrake/redhat at various times(text was misaligned with itself, like this:)
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(ignore the dots...I wanted spaces where tehy are)
I could never get it working at all on any gentoo systems, with lprng, cups, usb, parport, or anything.
THe printer is a piece of crap anyways, and even if you do get it work, there's a good chance it won't print correctly.
I ended up getting a cheap POS Apollo printer that works FLAWLESSLY under gentoo/cups, and networks just great via samba.
Ditch the z22, it's a piece of junk. Seriously...I wrestled with it for over a year now.
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guero61
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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| My Z22/32 works flawlessly... I used the Lexmark drivers on it, and haven't even thought about it since. |
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hook
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i had my z33 kinda working under slackware (with a lot of bloodspill), and i made it kiiiiiinda work under gentoo (with buckets of bloodspill!!!!), but after a week it stoped working for no apparent reason ...i've never successfully repared it since then (again buckets of bloodspill) ...then i gave up and i'm putting aside money for a new pc that'll have an HP again 
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mlsfit138
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| guero61 wrote: | | My Z22/32 works flawlessly... I used the Lexmark drivers on it, and haven't even thought about it since. |
The lexmark printers are only available in rpm. how did you get them to work in gentoo? |
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