lexmark z53 printer

[Joel Hammer]

One feature of this printer is that if a job arrives at it improperly
formatted, the job just gets lost. I guess the printer just ignores it.

So, are you sure you have the lexmark driver installed properly? 

At this point, I would go to the stepbystep (search filters hammer) and get
my article about print filters. At the end I dissect the filter that comes
with lexmark drivers. Note you need gs installed. I have version 6.01. You
also need enscript. You also need the driver program z53 working. You can
check to see if the filter got called by looking at the tmp file created
when the driver is activated. (This tmp file is needed to print pdf files.)

You can put debugging commands into the filter, eg:
echo Got here > /home/youruser/message
in appropriate places.

Relax, you're gonna solve this thing, you'll really like this printer,
and you will learn some useful stuff about print filters in the bargain.

Joel

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:44:23PM -0700, Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 01:21:03 -0500
> Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> 
> > The z53Photo.sh is one I wrote myself. You won't have it. It is just
> > z53.sh which uses a different configuration file, one that is
> > configured for glossy photo printing.
> > 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Can you run the lexmark configuration program, as
> > root, lexmarkz53?  
> > It should be installed in /usr/local/lexmark/z53/  although there may
> > be symbolic links in your path to it.
> 
> Wow, yes.  The test page prints!
> 
> > 
> > Are there any useful messages in one of the status files in 
> > /var/spool/lpd/z53 ?
> > 
> 
> No errors, just normal messages which would lead you to believe the
> print request worked.
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
> gentoo 1.4 system
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