[Tfug] Lexmark printers...

[Harry McGregor]

Well, it looks like Bowie was right about at least one thing... Lexmark
distributes binary only drivers for linux (binary drivers reduces the
ability to run in a multiplatfrom environment).  The drivers do not
support network printing (well, they support the printer being on a print
server, but you can't have it on something like a jetdirect printserver),
they only support printing over the lpt port.

You can download an RPM from the lexmark website, after testing with
alien, it looks as if the person who made this post on
linuxprinting.lexmark.general was righ, the package is rather broken.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/article.php3?id=864&group=linuxprinting.lexmark.general

I am going to rewrite the directions, to use the latest version, and the
US english version of the driver...  I don't have the printer itself to
test, but these directions should work.

1. Login as root, and make a directory called "lex" in root's home
directory (mkdir lex), change into "lex" (cd lex).

2. Get the tar ball from here:
(the lexmark site does not seem to be lynx or wget friendly for downloads,
so I have dowloaded the file to one of my accounts, and you can download
it from there, you might need to "apt-get install wget" first).

http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/Z32_ENG_US-1.0-5.TGZ

The command you will want to use is
"wget http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/Z32_ENG_US-1.0-5.TGZ"

3. You will need to install the following packages:
	rpm and cpio ("apt-get install rpm cpio")

4. untar the downloaded file "tar xzf Z32_ENG_US-1.0-5.TGZ"

5. move the output of the tar to the current directory with the
following command
"mv ./rpm/z32/english_US/lexmarkz22-z32-1.0-5.i386.rpm ./"

6. extract the rpm file using the following command:
"rpm2cpio ./lexmarkz22-z32-1.0-5.i386.rpm | cpio -iumd"

7. issue the following commands:
cp -a /root/lex/usr/local/lexmark /usr/local/lexmark
cp -a /root/lex/usr/local/lib/ /usr/local/lib/lexmark
cp -a /root/lex/usr/local/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
cp -a /root/lex/var/spool/lexmark /var/spool/lexmark

8. Make sure '/usr/local/lib' is in your '/etc/ld.so.conf' (text file,
use your favorite text editor to look at it). If not, put it in and run
'ldconfig'

9. Add the following to your printcap
#### Lexmark Z32 entries START ####
lp|lexmarkz32:\
     :lp=/dev/lp0:\
     :if=/usr/local/lexmark/z32/z32.sh:\
     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32:\
     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32/log:\
     :af=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32/acct:\
     :mx#0:\
     :sh:

z32-outfiles:\
     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/z32-outfiles:\
     :mx#0:\
     :sh:\
     :lp=/dev/lp0:

#### Lexmark Z32 entries END ####

10. Create the spooler directories:
   mkdir /var/spool/lpd/z32-outfiles
   mkdir /var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32
  chown lp.lp /var/spool/lpd/z32-outfiles /var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32
   chmod ug+rwx /var/spool/lpd/z32-outfiles /var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz32

11. Download and copy in a replacement version of z32.sh.
cd /usr/local/lexmark/z32/
mv z32.sh z32.sh.old
wget http://campus.azintl.edu/~micros/z32.sh

12. Move back to your home directory ("cd")

13. Set executable permissions for all files in /usr/local/lexmark/z32:
      chmod a+x /usr/local/lexmark/z32/*

14. run 'lexmarkz32 -i' if you like and set different parameters by using
'lxsetconf'. However, this step should not be necessary.

If you have problems with this, please let me know, as I said, I can't
fully test it since I don't have a lexmark printer (or any printer for
that matter, at home, and at work, I use postscript printers).

			Harry

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