I didn't find the z600 PPD file, so I couldn't verify if we even ship
the driver that it uses. The foomaticRIPCommandLine from the PPD file
will tell you what foomatic runs to convert from PostScript to "printer
ready" format. It's possible, but not likely that it uses a GhostScript
driver that we didn't enable. It's also possible that it includes
something like foo2zjs or another driver that for one reason or another
isn't shipped. That being said, It wasn't clear if data was being sent to
the printer and dropped or not.
You might start by generating a file with printer ready output using the
foomatidRIPCommandLine information and cat that to the device first. If
you are successful, we can work out any issues that LP my be causing.
-Norm
Eric Enright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get my Lexmark z517 to print. The z600 PPD is reported
> to work on Linux, so I am using that. I followed example 3-1 in the
> SX admin guide to create the printer, and that went fine. However,
> when I try to print anything with lp or lpr, it seems to spool, but
> nothing on the printer actually happens. I've also used printmgr
> (with a manually edited ppdcache) to achieve the same, but still
> nothing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> eric at yamano:~ (82)# lp -d paper ~/Documents/test.ps
> request id is paper-17 (1 file(s))
> eric at yamano:~ (83)# lpq -P paper
> paper: processing
> Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size
> 1st root 17 test.ps 5850 bytes
> eric at yamano:~ (84)# lpstat -p paper
> printer paper idle. enabled since October 28, 2006 6:23:18 PM EDT.
> available.
>
> The queue empties after a moment, and my logs contain nothing.
>
