Lexmark printer cartridge alignment

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:39:48PM +0200, huffman at graze.net wrote:
> 
> ... and found one stumbling block for which I couldn't find a
> solution.  She has a small Lexmark inkjet printer - think it's
> like a Z21 or something.  In windows she's able to "align the
> print cartridges" without which both graphics and text that look
> choppy.  I see no way to do this under linux.

Not that this has much to do with testing Fedora, but ...

The way to do that under Linux is just to "print" to a printer an
appriopriate binary pattern.  Possibly you may need to create a
"raw" queue on that printer, and send these files through that, in
order to prevent a print system from beeing "smart".  I do not know.

A long time ago I was hacking for a friend a support for one of
those Lexmark jets, which was not a very gratifying experience, and
found that web page:

http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/lexmark/lexmark.html

You will find there, among other things, files for a head aligment
and head cleaning and a bit more.  AFAIK they fit all these
small Lexmark jets but you will have to try.

You are in a better situation then me at that time as most likely
one of Lexmark drivers included with Fedora will be ok for that
printer (Lexmark 7000, or 7200, or Z22 if they indeed are
different).  How well this will fit I have no idea.

   Michal