lexmark z53 printer

[Collins]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:26:30 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> 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.

Steps taken:

1. Cable the printer
2. http://localhost:631/admin
3. Add printer scenario, selected parallel port, lexmark z53 and also
tried z52, with same results
4. Print test page produces: The connection was refused when attempting
to contact richeypc1.home.com (my hostname).  I also tried changing
parameters in cups.conf to

<Location /> 
Order Deny,Allow
Allow From All
</Location>

 5. cat xxx | lpr -P z53 prodcues no error
messages that I can see. Tail of error_log is
D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] UpdateJob: job 1, file 0 is complete. 
d [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] UpdateJob: Removing fd 3 from InputSet...
D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] CancelJob: id = 1 
D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: id = 1, force= 0 
D [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3
d [31/Dec/2002:08:01:39 -0700] StopJob: Freeing status buffer...

This is with cups-1.1.17 gimp-print-cups-4.3.0.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo 1.4 system