Todd Young wrote: > Just my humble opinion...... > > You couldn't give me a Lexmark printer. > > My dad has a USB Lexmark printer/scanner and the printer drivers don't > even work correctly with Windows. He is running WinXP on a new Dell > and he has to turn on the printer before turning on the PC. If he > turns the PC on first and then decides he wants to print something, he > has to restart the PC just to get it to acknowledge the printer. And > don't tell me to reinstall the drivers, been there, done that....along > with some other troubleshooting. Gave up, wasn't worth my time. > > And on another note, quite a few years ago I worked for a company that > repaired printers, and some of them were dot matrix Lexmark printers. > What a pile of crap. Key chassis components made out of cheap plastic > that could not be repaired. We used WeldOn #4 (if I remember > correctly) to repair chassis and case components on all makes of > printers, but the Lexmarks could not be repaired, just thrown in the > trash. > > Carl Lindholm wrote: > >> Chad Walstrom wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Carl Lindholm wrote: >>> >>>> Can anyone give a clue why my lexmark 1100 print won't print from >>>> linux. It works fine from windows. >>> >>> >>> Perhaps it isn't a true Postscript printer? Perhaps you should be >>> using >>> something like CUPS or lprng+magicfilter or lprng+foomatic to give the >>> printer the job in a format it can print? >>> >>> A quick google for "Linux Lexmark 1100" gives this: >>> >>> http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/lexmark-list/2001q2/000218.html >>> >>> Pretty good starting point... Lesson: Google is your Friend(tm) >>> >> Thanks that makes sense. I have done a lot of oneline searches and I >> will check this one out. >> Keep the options coming. > > I agree but I'm stuck with it. we used have an HP worked great but it die. :-( I did get it atleast to talk but it won't print yet. Makes life a pain having to save things to a samba share then reboot to windows to print. I understand that the reason we don't have good drivers is Microsoft won't let them release the specs. I read that some where. could be wrong. most times am, according to my wife :-) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list