Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:28:20 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net> To: "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lexmark Z23 USB Printer Message-ID: <20021112122114.X1105-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> In-Reply-To: <200211121350.24773.wmprice@direcway.com>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Weston M. Price wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to get my FreeBSD 4.7 Stable system working with my Z23 Lexmark > printer. I enabled support for USB printers in the kernel and was able to > rebuild and install with no problem. dmesg correctly reports the existence of > the device. However, I am sort of stuck at this point. I am not really sure > what I should do next, the handbook does not explicitly reference USB > printers. If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate > it. It would be nice to get this working since it is such a cheap printer. > The alternative would be for me to install the printer on my WindowsXP box > (really my girlfriends machine) and print across the network. > > Regards, > > Weston > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > That entire Z-series of Lexmark printers are the printer equivalent of a Winmodem. They rely on the host OS to do some of the processing; that's why they are so cheap. Lexmark does release Linux drivers for them. I have a Z52 working fine on Linux using gimp-print (without the Lexmark drivers) and I have no idea whatsoever how to transfer the configuration to FreeBSD. I was only able to make it work because RH & Mandrake has some gui printer wizards that make it brainless. If I had known it was a winprinter I wouldn't have bought it; this info isn't documented anywhere on the website. The Z52 is allegedly the ONLY such winprinter that works reliably with free software drivers. You might try reading up on gimp-print and the CUPS printing system. +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Steve Wingate <s.wingate@cox.net> |MCSE, CCNA Tue Nov 12 11:59:00 PST 2002 +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ |FreeBSD 4.7-RC |11:59AM up 24 days, 12:31, 1 user, load averages: 0.06, 0.06, 0.02 +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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