lexmark z53 printer

[Joel Hammer]

I have  been using a lexmarkz53 for perhaps a year. It works great. The
lexmark provided drivers work fine. I get excellent color photos with them.

I use this printer attached to my linux box to provide print services to
win98 and xp clients, as well as to the linux boxes. I don't use any lexmark
windows drivers, but send all the jobs to the linux box as postscript jobs.
This avoids headaches and provide excellent results.

I use lprng and samba.  The printer is on the parallel port.

If I try cat file > /dev/lp0, nothing happens, either. This printer
ignores plain text files sent to it like this. That seems to be a
feature. I think you have to use the lexmark or other specific driver
for this printer.

In the stepbystep I wrote about print filters, I dissect the lexmark filter
(not the driver.)

I think Kurt bought the same printer after my exclaiming over
the vendor provided drivers. 

So, what is the problem?  What have you done so far?

Joel


On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:24:26PM -0700, Collins wrote:
> Does anyone have one of these working on linux?
> 
> I just moved mine over from my windows machine, and it's a boat anchor. 
>  Drat, I just got my epson 1660 scanner working, and nowhere to print.
> 
> Even cat xxx >/dev/lp0 produces no response.
> 
> Yes, lp0 was working with my hp lj1100.
> 
> This printer has a USB plug, too, so I wonder if I'd get better results
> with a USB cable?  CUPS has USB support.