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#1 2005-02-23 17:51:30

Hippuh
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Registered: 2005-01-30
Posts: 22

shitty printer

Has anyone had any succes trying to get a lexmark z605 to work with archlinux? I have been able to use it in the past but due to a reinstall i cant anymore. I keep getting errors from cups such as "Cannot Process Raster" only thing i found about that was that it could be that esp ghostscript isnt installed well it is installed. Would be nice if i could get it to work.

p.s. NEVER buy a lexmark printer.

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#2 2005-02-24 08:38:45

torindan2
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Registered: 2004-07-15
Posts: 74

Re: shitty printer

I have Z602, and it works fine.
Download http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfilec … 0-1.TAR.gz
from Lexmark site, it should work with all Z60x printers.
Inside you will find z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
Run it with

sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -target temp_dir

It wit try to run some tk scripts, but on my Arch it can't find libtk8.3.so and exits...that's normal. In temp_dir you can find 2 rpms : z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm and z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
I think the content of z600cups is enough, but just to be sure extract both rpms in some location, and copy content keeping directory structure

/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/cups
/usr/lib/cups/backend
/usr/lib/cups/backend/z600
/usr/lib/cups/filter
/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
/usr/share
/usr/share/cups
/usr/share/cups/model
/usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz
...

After that, restart CUPS and add your printer using new z600 backend.

It worked for me, hope it will work for you too.

Regarding "never buy...", I think if you pay 50$ for printer and 4$ for 100ml black refill bottle, and it works...what else do you want?

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#3 2005-02-24 14:03:41

dadexter
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From: Dorval, QC, Canada
Registered: 2004-09-07
Posts: 274
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Re: shitty printer

I use the z60x driver for my X1150 3-in-1, and it prints fine... no scanner though sad

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#4 2005-02-24 16:58:18

Hippuh
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Registered: 2005-01-30
Posts: 22

Re: shitty printer

well i want a printer with better linux support tbh. I also have a lexmark p3120 all in one, never got that one to work though.
And i have the cups drivers installed.

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#5 2005-03-11 15:38:13

CrayMk7
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From: Norway
Registered: 2004-03-29
Posts: 51

Re: shitty printer

Hi torindan2.

I'm trying to get my Lexmark z602 to work following your instructions, I did download the file and extract it thus having the rpm files, but how do I extract the rpm's  :oops:

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#6 2005-03-11 23:39:06

Cam
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From: Brisbane, Aus
Registered: 2004-12-21
Posts: 658
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Re: shitty printer

pacman -S rpmunpack

or


pacmajn -S rpm2targz

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#7 2005-03-12 00:05:29

skoal
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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld
Registered: 2004-03-23
Posts: 612
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Re: shitty printer

Hippuh, for the rpm file in question (after getting 'rpmunpack'):

rpmunpack < [filename].rpm | gunzip | cpio -idmuv

* That will extract those files into the current working directory.

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#8 2005-03-12 11:47:04

CrayMk7
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From: Norway
Registered: 2004-03-29
Posts: 51

Re: shitty printer

Thanks skoal, your code worked wonders  smile

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#9 2005-03-12 12:38:07

CrayMk7
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From: Norway
Registered: 2004-03-29
Posts: 51

Re: shitty printer

Hm, something went wrong.

I have the right drivers for my z602 in the right locations, and I did follow the wiki to set up cups.

The only error I got was when running : tail /var/log/messages : getting a no such file exists error.

I proceded whit the cups web interface to see if I could find the printer there, and that setup went just fine, also running : lpq : in a terminal returns : z602 is ready no entries.

If I try to print a big document or this web side, I see the print progressbar for a second and then nothing, no printing and no errors,

Anyone know's what could be wrong.

Thanks.

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#10 2005-08-31 01:58:17

Krzysiek_W
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From: Poland, Bialystok - tam gdzie
Registered: 2004-12-08
Posts: 45
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Re: shitty printer

CrayMk7 wrote:

Hm, something went wrong.

I have the right drivers for my z602 in the right locations, and I did follow the wiki to set up cups.
[...]
If I try to print a big document or this web side, I see the print progressbar for a second and then nothing, no printing and no errors,

I had the same problem.
The files from .rpm after extraction (rpmextract...) have premisions 700, after changing to 755 and runing ldconfig cups started printing :]


Greetings
Krzysiek Wojszko

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