topic Lexmark 1150 printer setup in Operating System - Linux

Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Vernon Brown_4 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:01:04 GMT

My SuSE 9.0 Linux printer setup utility correctly identifies the printer as Lexmark 1100 series. From the setup clicking the "Test" button brings up "Printing Finished" popup but printer only clicks; doesn't print; doesn't feed paper; print spooler shows print jobs in queue.

Am I missing something ? Since setup seems to recognize the printer I assume I have the correct driver.

Thanks for any help !!

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Martin P.J. Zinser — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:15:57 GMT

Hello,

the "printing finished" popup is just for you to indicate that printing has finished ok (as opposed to using cancel in there, which removes the job out of the queue, in case the printer spews out lots of garbage paper).

Given the indications you make (printer clicks), it seems you might have a purely mechanical problem. Does the printer work with another computer?

Greetings, Martin

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Vernon Brown_4 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:54:47 GMT

I'm running a duel-boot system 80G HD for Windows and 40G HD for Linux. Printer works fine when I boot to Windows.

http://www.linuxprinting.com reports that they don't know of any good drivers for Lexmark Desk Jet printers. Thought someone might have one since there seems to be one selected by the SuSE setup process.

Thanks for your response !!

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Vernon Brown_4 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:58:17 GMT

Oops make that http://www.linuxprinting.org/

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Martin P.J. Zinser — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:44:34 GMT

Hello Vernon,

seems you might be out of luck here, Google found the follwoing:

http://f23.parsimony.net/forum51677/messages/811.htm

Seems to indicate this is currently not working.

Sorry for the bad news, hope somebody can proof me wrong.

Greetings, Martin

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Vernon Brown_4 — Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:34:28 GMT

Thanks Martin; I was afraid of that. I'll go down to Best Buy and shop around for a good HP printer for this box.

Re: Lexmark 1150 printer setup

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:43:27 GMT

Hello,

I do not know what you exactly are looking for. I recently bought a Samsung 2151N laser printer with integrated network card and am pleased with the ease of setup and good performance.

From what I hear All-in-one printers often seem to be problematic with Linux.

Greetings, Martin

P.S. Lets see if this get censored in an hp forum ;-)

P.P.S. Thanks for the points and none for this post please.