Re: Lexmark Z23 and Z33

Calvin Spealman wrote:

>Has anyone gotten one of these working successfully, while maintaining
>portage integrity? The only way I see right now to get this working is
>either to:
>1) install RPM and run the install script from lexmark.com
>2) extract the RPM and create an ebuild from the files, even though I have
>no idea how to accomplish this.
>
>Comments? I bought this because of the penquin on the box and I'd like to be
>able to keep it. If we can't use hardware in Linux when the manufacturer
>supports a driver, we're doomed!
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Wow...I forgot I subscribed to this list.  I've never seen a post here 
before so you might want to try gentoo-user.

As to your question, I don't know anything about the exact printer.  If 
they work like normal printers all you actually need is a 
cups-compatible PPD file.  What I'd do is this, make sure you've got 
CUPS installed (the ebuild is fine), use rpm2targz to extract the files 
from the rpm, and just copy the PPD file into /usr/share/cups/model and 
restart the cups service.

 From there all you need to do is add a printer in cups using either 
gnome-cups-manager (if you use gnome) or a web browser.

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