Lexmark printer drivers

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 17:05 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 14:30, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:18 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> > > I see that Lexmark now offers a "roll your own" printer driver
> > > development kit.  It comes with a driver for one of their models, a z-55
> > > as I recall.
> > 
> > Yes, but if you look carefully at that site, you'll notice that the
> > roll-your-own stuff was aimed at Red Hat 9 and earlier.  Most of the
> > Lexmark stuff is quite well supported by the later CUPS stuff found on
> > RHEL3 and RHEL4, as well as all Fedora releases.
> > > 
> > > I wonder if someone with technical skill would look into this and see if
> > > it looks doable?  I could get a z-43 for free but it wouldn't do me any
> > > good unless I could make it run.
> > 
> > There's really no worry.  There are drivers in current CUPS
> > implementations for the Z42 and Z43 printers.
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> Thanks Rick, this gives me an excuse to upgrade.

Hey, ANY excuse to upgrade is a good thing.  FC5 and CentOS 4.4 work
quite well, if you want freebies.  Remember that FC5 is what will become
RHEL4U5 in the future, CentOS 4.4 is a whitebox RHEL4 update 4.

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