HOWTO: Lexmark Z600 series printer FC5(more versions?)

zerhacke · #1 2006-04-29, 05:10 PM CDT

Here is a howto to get a Lexmark Z600 series printer working.

Go to http://www.autostatic.com/linux/lexmarkz605-suse93.html . Download the drivers found at http://www.downloaddelivery.com/srfi...S-1.0-1.TAR.gz . Save this file to disk, preferably in your home folder. Open a terminal.

In the terminal, type

Code:

tar -xvzf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz

This will extract the file.

In a terminal, type

Code:

tail -n +143 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh > install.tar.gz

This will create a new tar file named install.tar.gz. In a terminal type

Code:

tar -xvzf install.tar.gz

This creates a number of files. You're interested in the two RPM files.

In the terminal type

Code:

su

Code:

(your root password)

Code:

rpm -i *.rpm

This will install both RPM files. You're not done yet.

In the terminal (you're still root, right?) type

Code:

/sbin/ldconfig

Now go to CUPS's web frontend. You cannot install the printer using the administrative control panel applet. You must use the CUPS frontend.

http://localhost:631

Install the printer using the CUPS frontend. WALA, you have Z600 series printing! Print a test page to be sure it will work, as some setups and some printer models sometimes say they work but actually do not.

Oh yeah, you may or may not need to reboot to get the printer working. When I was using Ubuntu 5.10 I had to reboot to be able to select the printer model. Under FC5 I didn't have to reboot to get my Lexmark Z611 working properly.

Prints images and text very well. Enjoy.

(I originally posted this in the Hardware section. Sorry for the double post, but I just found this section.)

giocarra · #2 2006-05-17, 11:38 PM CDT

Quote:

Originally Posted by zerhacke

Now go to CUPS's web frontend. You cannot install the printer using the administrative control panel applet. You must use the CUPS frontend.
http://localhost:631
Install the printer using the CUPS frontend. WALA, you have Z600 series printing! Print a test page to be sure it will work, as some setups and some printer models sometimes say they work but actually do not.

Hi Zerhacke, I followed you suggestion wishing to have my Lexmark printer ...printing but I've not so far been able to find the WALA fontend you wrote of.
Please be kind and tell me more about where to find such a frontend.

Thanks in advance
Giorgio
Sorry for my bad English, but I'm from Italy

giocarra · #3 2006-05-18, 03:25 AM CDT

Sorry

I didn't see the dot (full stop) after CUPS and I believed that WALA was a cups frontend

Now I'll install cups.
Have a nice day

Giorgio

jacbro · #4 2006-08-13, 11:29 PM CDT

Well
I know I'm pretty new to Linux and that this must be a single comma somewhere but...

I hooked a new Z611 this afternoon, through USB port.

It works properly under Windows (damnation..) FYI I keep Windows because my wife does not feel comfortable with Linux.

Under CUPS, the state of the jobs fall back to stopped or error and nothing prints out.

Can someone give me a cue of what is going on ? (or more precisely of what could not be going on ?)

Thanks in advance

Jacques

guyver · #5 2006-09-03, 08:52 AM CDT

I am using the above instructions to install the lexmark z617 printer for my fc5. But all jobs aborted silently.
the symptom is just the same as Jacbro's. Please help!

DCOH · #6 2006-09-04, 12:20 AM CDT

I've installed this for the z611 but how can I get to localhost:631 my web broweser don't seem to want to go there.

tokwieci · #7 2006-09-15, 12:08 PM CDT

i have z617 and its printing fine. did u configured cups correctly?
u get to cups typing http://localhost:631 in browser, add a printer, select Lexmark_Z600_Series_USB_1. thats all i did and its working.

guyver · #8 2006-09-16, 07:34 PM CDT

thanks for your reply. I have successfully get it work by selecting "Lexmark_Z600_Series" in cups but not the "...USB" one (it has two Lexmark in the list). I dont know why. Anyway, it just works. But everytime I start my FC5 I will still get a popup window asking me to choose a printer driver for my Lexmark z617, but no lexmark z600 series in the list. How to handle that? Thanks.

tokwieci · #9 2006-09-17, 08:26 AM CDT

administration -> services -> unmark cups-config-daemon

DCOH · #10 2006-09-24, 09:47 PM CDT

I've tried typing http://localhost:631 in my browser and it tells me address not available. So how do you get to localhost:631?

DCOH · #11 2006-10-03, 08:20 PM CDT

I've got my Z611 printing just fine now, but I have to use http://127.0.0.1:631 to get to the cups front end to set it up. I could not use http://localhost:631 in my Browser.

mikelw67 · #12 2006-11-12, 07:36 AM CST

fc6
i've tried the 600 no usb and the 600 usb and no luck... all jobs go to stopped?

DCOH · #13 2006-11-12, 01:37 PM CST

I had to go into Selinux and shut off the cups printing security to get mine to work

mikelw67 · #14 2006-11-12, 06:24 PM CST

Dan i turned off all Selinux printing securities... no luck nething else i can try??

thanks
mike

mikelw67 · #15 2006-11-12, 06:33 PM CST

re FC6 z600 printing goes to stop... i tryed the securityed no luck.. i went back through the install process again.. i noticed
an error
cd /usr/lib.cups/backend
./z600
./z600: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

is this my problem... ne suggestions?? please.

thanks
mike