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by jck

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Lexmark, supposedly, has Linux-compatible setups. However, I recently had no luck with installing a Z810 color inkjet with the Mandrake Linux 10.1 OS. I tried everything I could find on the web and nothing worked.

Then, I took an HP 712C off of another machine and it went like a champ.

Has anyone else had problems getting Lexmark printers/devices to work with Linux?

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by theroyala9

printering is mostly dependant on the printer
language of the particular printer. and then you
just need the right ppd. hp sometimes requires a
socket but cups detects it when you have the
hpoj/hpijs/hlip installed well. i couldnt print
on a photosmart but now i can. even postscript
printers wont work with out the right postscript
ppd as in the case of the samsung color laser
printer. i heard that you can cabextract those
lexmarks from the windows drivers file and use
them.

by rayjeff

In the earlier versions of Mandrake and RedHat, I had a problem because my printer wasn't listed, Lemark Z32. So I had to subsititue another Lexmark printer. This was usually more successful with the RedHat.

Now, I have RedHat Enterprise WS and it's worked just fine.

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