USB Lexmark Printer Not Working

vi0lat0r · 04-01-2004, 07:51 PM

I thought I had it working, I press print test page.... nothing prints out? What's up with that?

CUPS is installed... using it... Lexmark is my only printer, set as default. Any help is greatly appreciated!

TIA! :-)

leonscape · 04-01-2004, 07:58 PM

So your printing a test page from CUPS? Is the right port set, also whats the ppd file look like ( under /etc/cups/ppd/myprinter.ppd ).

Azmeen · 04-01-2004, 10:20 PM

Lexmarks are useless under Linux... don't take my word on it.

Check out this LinuxPrinting.org page.

Justin_Time · 04-02-2004, 02:17 AM

Lexmark used to be "useless" under Linux. There new models do have "drivers" created by lexmarks. I have also got some old models working but i admit if you are unlucky it's crap.

carboncopy · 04-02-2004, 02:41 AM

Under cups, please switch on your printer and plug in to the usb port before switching on the computer

OR

as root,
go to /etc/rc.d
and ./rc.cups restart

lpstat -v before and after

carboncopy · 04-02-2004, 02:44 AM

by what i mean lpstat -v before and after you should be able to see whether the printer is detected by CUPS

vi0lat0r · 04-02-2004, 06:07 AM

Code:

# lpstat -v
device for LEXMARKZ22: usb://Lexmark/Z22-Z32

Ok so it's showing up (all I did was type lpstat -v the first time... didn't edit anything)

vi0lat0r · 04-02-2004, 06:24 AM

Code:

A print error occurred. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'tmpprinter_bAn6NpBS' -J 'KDE Print Test' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'root' -o '
 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-uncollated-copies 
orientation-requested=3' '/opt/kde/share/apps/kdeprint/testprint.ps' : execution failed with 
message:

server-error-not-accepting-jobs

That's when I try to print a test page. When setting the printer up it asks me for username and password, I try my normal one and it don't work, then I try root with the root password, and it still says:

Code:

Authentication failed (user name=root) Do you want to retry?

:-\

carboncopy · 04-03-2004, 07:00 AM

Trying login as root and use the browser to configure your printer.

Can you tell me what steps did you take to set up CUPS?