Sean’s Blog

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I’ve finally installed my printer under linux. There didn’t seem to be any specific tutorials for this printer (probably because it is a rebranded Lexmark). I did find a tutorial that got me most of the way there, so I figured I would share how I did it.

Here’s the tutorial. Basically, you pull down the Lexmark z600 printer drivers. Since they are RPMs, you convert them over to .deb files with alien and install them. The part where things don’t really follow the tutorial is you should get some output when run the executable. But this is what I get.
sean@darkstar8:/usr/lib/cups/backend$ ./z600
sean@darkstar8:/usr/lib/cups/backend$

But since we have already done all the the heavy lifting, and all the files are there, we can finish up the install using CUPS. From the Gnome menu, go to System -> Administration->Printing.

The printer should be detected, click next. Now we’ll tell it which driver to use (in /usr/share/cups/model)

The z600 driver is the one you want, which should be at the bottom. Use that driver and you should be good to go. Hope that helps.