Hi there, slackers.

It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
it is alignment pages.

For drivers... I went to www.lexmark.com and found
CJLZ65LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.GZ. I put it to use by making a Slack package
out of it. The I installed the package.

Wow that ink was expensive. Anyone know how to make a Z65 go in Slack?
Maybe use files for a different printer? Maybe there's some trick to
using CUPS that I haven't learned yet?

It's a USB printer and I'm trying to hook it directly into my IOGEAR
USB 2.0 card on the back of my Pentium 3 Linux box. When I try to
print I get a log message that says:

PID <blah> stopped with status 22.

-Joe

Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:03:28 +0000, Joseph Rosevear a écrit*:

> It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
> inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
> it is alignment pages.

Linux hates Lexmark. Period.

Niki
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on
at ball-breaking length. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-
philosophicus, first draft.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:03:28 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:

> Hi there, slackers.
>
> It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
> inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
> it is alignment pages.
>
> For drivers... I went to www.lexmark.com and found
> CJLZ65LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.GZ. I put it to use by making a Slack package
> out of it. The I installed the package.
>
> Wow that ink was expensive. Anyone know how to make a Z65 go in Slack?
> Maybe use files for a different printer? Maybe there's some trick to
> using CUPS that I haven't learned yet?

IMHO your money would have been better spent getting a new cheap printer
that works. Often cheaper than the ink that comes with them.


>
> It's a USB printer and I'm trying to hook it directly into my IOGEAR
> USB 2.0 card on the back of my Pentium 3 Linux box. When I try to
> print I get a log message that says:
>
> PID <blah> stopped with status 22.
>
> -Joe

ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:03:28 +0000, Joseph Rosevear wrote:
>
>> Hi there, slackers.
>>
>> It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
>> inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
>> it is alignment pages.

[snip]

> IMHO your money would have been better spent getting a new cheap printer
> that works. Often cheaper than the ink that comes with them.

[snip]

>> -Joe


Hello disdainful doubters,

I got it working, and it's beautiful. This is my first ever color
printer, and I'm already thinking about all the cute and pretty things
I can make with it. Posting to this group forced me to use my brain
for a moment, and then the solution came to me. Something like that.
More like I was so tired I started to get gutsy, and I did it all over
again taking the chance I was afraid to take before.

Install scripts bother me.

And perhaps this was a case of rtfm, although there was no manual.
Just an internet post that actually did tell me what to do, although I
didn't get it right the first time.

I owe it to you who had no faith in me. Thank you.

-Joe

P.S. I'll put links to the web posts that guided me on my website
(josephrosevear.com) when I get a chance to update it.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:12:20 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:

> Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:03:28 +0000, Joseph Rosevear a écrit*:
>
>> It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
>> inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
>> it is alignment pages.
>
> Linux hates Lexmark. Period.
>
> Niki

I am not sure whether this statement is true: I use a Lexmark laser
printer for years (Optra E310), it uses native ghostscript and never
caused any problem (apart from paper misfeed, hardly a Linux issue). There
are these inexpensive Lexmarks around now that have even an ethernet
interface. Maybe the cheap inkjets are not advisable, but Lasers certainly
are.

JB

danube wrote:

>
> I am not sure whether this statement is true: I use a Lexmark laser
> printer for years (Optra E310), it uses native ghostscript and never
> caused any problem (apart from paper misfeed, hardly a Linux issue). There
> are these inexpensive Lexmarks around now that have even an ethernet
> interface. Maybe the cheap inkjets are not advisable, but Lasers certainly
> are.
>

I'll backup the Optra E310, great little laser printers that do native
postcript and have centronics and USB connectors. Mine has never had any
trouble with Linux at all.

Never managed to get a Lexmark inkjet to work properly with Linux though.

--
Billy

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:03:28 +0000, Joseph Rosevear a écrit :
>
>
>>It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
>>inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
>>it is alignment pages.
>
>
> Linux hates Lexmark. Period.
>
> Niki
I think it is the other way around isn't it?
Lexmark hates Linux?

I got a DELL/Lexmark do-all printer when I signed up with Telus.net and it has
been in my Garage for 2 years.
I spent a couple of months and a lot of frustration trying to make something out
of it. I won't give it to any of my MS acquaintances as I don't believe in
helping anyone on that path.

--
Leo (Bing) Whiteway in Kelowna, BC, Canada: Ham calls: VE7UW and VE7OKV
LINUX, no virus, no worms, no spyware, so why Microsoft?
< running Linux >

Leo <leowhiteway@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Linux hates Lexmark. Period.

> I think it is the other way around isn't it? Lexmark hates Linux?
>
> I got a DELL/Lexmark do-all printer when I signed up with
> Telus.net and it has been in my Garage for 2 years.

We've got one that is sitting on a table beside our desk. We have
yet to plug it in and the ink cartridges are still in their bags.

> I spent a couple of months and a lot of frustration trying to make
> something out of it. I won't give it to any of my MS acquaintances
> as I don't believe in helping anyone on that path.

We never bothered. We googled, looking for drivers once, and
learned not to bother.

Did you know that Niki Kovacs real name is Kiki NovaKs and he/she is
a hermaphrodite? Not that there is anything wrong with being a
hermaphrodite. Of course his/her reaction is a little different
when somebody tells it to "go fuck yourself."

cordially, as always,

rm

Joseph Rosevear wrote:
> It's early in the morning, and I'm tired. I bought a Lexmark Z65 color
> inkjet printer for $15.99 from a thrift store, and all I'm getting from
> it is alignment pages.
>
> For drivers... I went to www.lexmark.com and found
> CJLZ65LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.GZ. I put it to use by making a Slack package
> out of it. The I installed the package.
>
> Wow that ink was expensive. Anyone know how to make a Z65 go in Slack?
> Maybe use files for a different printer? Maybe there's some trick to
> using CUPS that I haven't learned yet?

Isn't there some readme in the .tgz file? I found Lexmark support for
Linux to be great, and I have yet to find their printer that does not
work. I've had problems with HPs, Samsung and Cannons mostly don't work
at all... IMHO, Lexmark is the best when it comes to Linux
comaptibility. It's one of the rare cases where you see the printer box
and it says: Supports Windows, Linux, MacOS.

--
Milan Babuskov
http://njam.sourceforge.net
http://swoes.blogspot.com

Milan Babuskov <mbabuskov@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Isn't there some readme in the .tgz file? I found Lexmark support for
> Linux to be great, and I have yet to find their printer that does not
> work. I've had problems with HPs, Samsung and Cannons mostly don't work
> at all... IMHO, Lexmark is the best when it comes to Linux
> comaptibility. It's one of the rare cases where you see the printer box
> and it says: Supports Windows, Linux, MacOS.

A quick search on google shows that your experience is unique.
Lexmark clearly has more problems running with unix/linux than any
other common printer out there. The all-in-ones are hopeless.

cordially, as always,

rm