[Solved] Lexmark Z2320 and CUPS

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-25 13:25:54

Hi everybody!
Unfortunately, I bought a Lexmark Z2320 --> http://www.lexmark.it/lexmark/product/h … ml?tabId=1 , a simple and cheap printer suitable for the few pages I have to print. I didnt know that Lexmark printers were bad supported under Gnu/Linux.

I followed the guide about CUPS on the Wiki to set my new printer, but I had to stop when I had to copy the PPD using this command:

# cp your_printer.ppd /usr/share/cups/model/

On http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_print … 300_series they say this printer is perfectly supported, but I cant find the PPD!...what can I do?

Help me please, I dont want to buy another printer!!:mad:

Thanks.

Last edited by Philip J. Fry (2009-04-15 10:57:39)

artiom · 2009-02-25 13:37:19

Did you try to use CUPS web interface to install the printer. If it's marked supported in linuxprinting than you must be able to install it without special ppd file.

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-25 15:33:08

Yes, I did. I Clicked on the Administration tab but I could not see my printer.

I followed this simple guide -> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/d … rview.html

Last edited by Philip J. Fry (2009-02-25 15:35:54)

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-25 21:42:19

I should try to compile the driver using cupsddk? But how??

help me please.

artiom · 2009-02-26 08:34:18

Ok. If you read attentively the page on linuxprinting you see that the printer is not included in foomatic (ppd package). So you must download the driver form the Lexmark site. On the site choose the driver for Foresight Linux. In this package there will be your PPD file, but try to use the package directly, this may work.

artiom · 2009-02-26 08:44:11

Their package is a self extracting archive. I am not very familiar with this. You can look at the PKGBUILD for another Lexmark driver to see how to use it : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=713
To go further you can make an AUR package for this driver. This will permit you to update/uninstall it properly and can help the others Lexmark owners.

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-26 12:37:10

artiom wrote:

Ok. If you read attentively the page on linuxprinting you see that the printer is not included in foomatic (ppd package). So you must download the driver form the Lexmark site. On the site choose the driver for Foresight Linux. In this package there will be your PPD file, but try to use the package directly, this may work.

Ok, I downloaded it.

But there is just a big .sh file, how can I extract the PPD from it?

artiom · 2009-02-26 13:09:03

Execute it. Look at the AUR PKGBUILD I gave you in the previous post. There are the commands used to install a similar driver from Lexmark.

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-26 18:48:48

I tried both lexmarkz-cups and z600 from AUR, no one worked.

Philip J. Fry · 2009-02-27 19:02:06

Up

Philip J. Fry · 2009-03-25 06:59:28

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Philip J. Fry · 2009-04-15 10:57:22

Solved using the Foresight Linux driver downloaded from lexmark website; it's a .sh script.

Thanks to everybody.

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#1 2009-02-25 13:25:54

[Solved] Lexmark Z2320 and CUPS

#2 2009-02-25 13:37:19

Re: [Solved] Lexmark Z2320 and CUPS

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#7 2009-02-26 12:37:10

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#9 2009-02-26 18:48:48

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#10 2009-02-27 19:02:06

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#11 2009-03-25 06:59:28

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#12 2009-04-15 10:57:22

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