When I first started asking questions at this site, I was pretty naive and I asked questions that were barely touched probably because they were stupid. My initial problem was that I couldn't conceptualize the command system. Actually, I'm pretty smart (just a little slow). When can a command work in most scenarios? When you are in the proper directory, of course. It took me too long to get that. One question I asked was how to make a driver installation command work; not the driver itself, just the command. After I figured that out, I had another problem. Where can I find a shared library file to run the driver installation? Is it a file I didn't install in my installation? Turns out it was. The printer printed out a test page but I still couldn't configure the printer in the printer configuration tool. Neither the printer or driver showed up there. The driver did show up in the QT Cups file and other files were in other directories. Finally, I gave up on the printer configuration tool and tried to print from the command line. It worked. I can print from every application I've tried. This makes me happy because all I've read is how this printer would never work with Linux.

Yes, CUPS has proven valuable to me as well. I had a heck of a time getting things to work before the project was implemented in Red Hat, (and I have has Lexmarks because they are cheap initially, (not the ink)).

Josh

You are right Josh, it was the cheapest printer at the store where I bought it. If you go to linuxprinting.org, you are led to beleive this printer will not work. Period. I had a reply to an earlier thread from a guy who got his working, too. So, keep trying, I guess. --------------->Jay

But if you go on the Lexmark website, they say it does work and you can have the driver, unlike my Z605