Lexmark printer drivers

[Rick Stevens]

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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