I will soon update GIMP-Print to 4.2.2rc1 or final, they fixed a bug
concerning the Z52.
Till
Mike Graham wrote:
> On Friday 16 August 2002 11:50 am, Alastair Scott wrote:
>
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>>>Since Beta 1 I have not been able to get my Lexmark Z52 to print. At
>>>installation it says installing as local printer then when installation
>>>is over it will not print. Have tried all 3 betas and did clean installs
>>>on all 3 but still it does not work. I need my printer can anyone help.
>>>It worked great from 8.2 back. I am up-to-date with cooker after Beta 3
>>>install and still it does not work.
>>
>>I had a similar problem with beta 2 (beta 3 currently downloading) and my
>>Z42.
>>
>>The cure was to change the driver from
>>
>>CUPS + GIMP-print v4.2.2-pre4 (en)
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>>to
>>
>>Foomatic + drv_z42
>>
>>after which things went very well (and with print quality better than I've
>>ever had before with the Z42!)
>>
>>Alastair
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>>Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)
>>http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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> Thankyou for the suggestion but the Lexmark Z52 will not work with the Z42
> driver. I tried it and it printed a very garbled page. I even tried all the
> other drivers with no luck. It seems that the Lexmark drivers for the Z52 or
> Z53 are not the proper drivers for that model of Lexmark. I can only hope the
> drivers are fixed as I do not want to have to buy another printer. I tried it
> in Windows and it is working so it has to be the Linux drivers.
> Mike
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