Lexmark Printers in Linux

Well, for once something on my Suse10 system was not a complete pain in the
arse to setup. I just purchased a new Lexmark T522n printer that was
massively discounted as the box was damaged, and the old T522 is nearly
obsolete, but it has a NIC built in, had LPD print server and was only $250
instead of the retail $1000.
I sat down prepared to spend the evening trying to get my head around CUPS,
Postscript, compiling drivers etc. But wow, head on over to the lexmark
website and found the drivers already in a nice rpm for suse, downloaded,
unzipped, installed, followed the instructions in the pdf and viola,
Printer attached to the network and printing with 30 minutes 8)

This solved a bunch of printing problems I was having as my old Cannon
bubblejet driver was just rubbish, poor resolution of lines (lots of
jaggies) , poor resolution on rotated text, OpenOffice just not printing
anything at all. The same printer had worked fine under Windows, and
printing from Windows to the printer shared on my Samba server was fine.

So I can highly recommend at least this Lexmark printer to 'nix newbies who
want a great laser printer that is nearly silent (unless actually printing)
and had great linux support right from the supplier.

Anyone else have a good story to tell about a mainstream product for linux?
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Lexmark X125 Drivers wont install
    ... For that you'd have to ask Lexmark. ... Printing & Imaging ... but right at the end of driver installation a ... are there any older x125 drivers i could try? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: CUPS
    ... >> printing to my network attached Lexmark 3200 ink jet printer. ... >> print server is a Netgear PS101 I was printing to using an LPD setup. ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Re: Lexmark Z35 in an XPSP2 home network using WinME clients
    ... Windows Printing Team ... >> Not sure who needs to fix it but Lexmark understands it's a DCOM issue. ... the allow and deny settings for Remote Access were ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)
  • Re: Avoid Lexmark like the Plague
    ... I purchased a brand new Lexmark E232 Monochrome ... I don't do a lot of printing -- in fact the Printer Status ... the home users market would never again fall prey ... I strongly recommend to anyone who is in the market ...
    (comp.periphs.printers)
  • Re: Lexmark Z35 in an XPSP2 home network using WinME clients
    ... Not sure who needs to fix it but Lexmark understands it's a DCOM issue. ... It's an issue with the DCOM communication interface. ... "Our current printing solution uses a DCOM application ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax)