Lexmark supporting Linux?!

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3 April 2010 07:46, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>> David Gerard wrote:
>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=lexmark_linux&num=1
>>>> After their years of implacable hostility to Linux, this is great!
>>> Huh? I had a Lexmark printer that works with Linux for years until I
>>> burnt its cogs out (or was it lost its ability to feed the paper in...)
>>> so this hostility remark is rather strange to me...I got it in 2004 or
>>> something.
>>> The thing I had came with a disk that had Linux software for printing...
>>> It was a monochrome laser for just a little over 100USD which I thought
>>> was a great bargain.
>>
>> Lasers might be different. Their inkjets have pretty much never worked
>> with Linux.
> 
> I used a z53 inkjet in Fedora and then in Ubuntu for years (until I
> replaced it in 2007).  You cannot generalize these type of printing
> problems across all the product line of a company; it's really model
> dependant.   But my recollection is that the trick was not to use the
> Linux software/drivers than came with the printer...
> 
> 

Yeah, I remember using the Samsung ppd instead of the Lexmark one.