Printer issue

Maynard Kuona knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Sat Feb 21 18:51:50 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 19:42, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> Quoting Maynard Kuona <knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za>:
> 
> > I did something very silly. I bought a printer before checking its Linux
> > compatibility. so now I am a little stuck. It works under Windows
> > though. Does anyone have experience with a Lexmark Z605 printer. It sure
> > had no driver for me in my system. does anyone know a compatible driver
> > to use in its stead.
> > 
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> 
> Hi Maynard.
> 
> May I suggest having a look at the companies web site.
> 
> It took less then a minute to find the driver via their support site.
> 
> http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi?ccs=229:1:0:389:0:0&emeaframe=&fileID=1151
> 
> It's for Redhat 9, however you should be able to get it up and running with the
> version of cups on fedora, with some tinkering.
> 
> Doug
> 

Thanks very much. I didn't understand how to browse their site really.
It only occurred to me much later that I could type Linux and hit
search, and it gave me the driver. They could make it more prominent
though.

Thanks again.

Maynard





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