lexmark z53 printer

[Collins]

On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 17:03:34 -0500
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> I can't offer much advice about cups.  BTW, I gave up using CUPS when
> I had permissions problem with it. Who needs those things? lprng works
> fine. Why bother with the latest and greatest if the tried and true
> works fine? I still use ipchains.
> 
> I don't use gimp printer drivers either. lexmark supplies a nice
> configuration and testing tool with its drivers.
> 
> Basically, I just use a basic lprng setup, with the lexmark supplied
> filter specified in printcap. 
> 
> This is my printcap. It isn't pretty but it works.
> 
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> ps|z53 filters jobs.
> Photo filters jobs, but I edited the filter to use a configuration
> file which prints hi quality images to photo paper. If you dissect the
> print filter, it is easy to do.
> lp is to dump the print image right to the printer. This is required
> for printing test pages, since they do not need to be formatted or
> filtered. As
> 
> I dimly recall, z53-outfiles is the magic name here for the
> configuration program to use.  

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> POC (Piece of cake).
> 

Well, the cake's a little dry <grin>.  I backed out cups and gimp-print
and installed lprng, got the Lexmark driver (bummer: it's a freaking
rpm, so I had to emerge rpm <groan>).  The rpm, of course, found none of
its dependencies, but they all verified (had to emerge slang), then I
could install with --nodeps.  I'm using your printcap.  Got the spool
directories allocated, and LPD is started, but no joy.

cat tiger.ps | lpr -P ps puts the file in the spool, but lpstat says
there are no files to print and no server running.  checkpc only
complains about the z53Photo.sh filter, which I don't have.

Any suggetions?

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo 1.4 system