problem with Lexmark z53 and cupsys-driver-gimpprint

[Daniel Robitaille]

I have been trying to get Ubuntu to talk to my Lexmark z53 printer,
and it doesn't work.  The latest attempt tonight was to install
cupsys-driver-gimpprint from universe since it seems to solve some
printing problems accoridng to some previous posts on the list (since
I installed it, the z53 driver has now appeared when creating a new
print queue, so I believe that I need that package one way or
another.)

But that didn't solve my problem with the printer. And now I cannot
even remove that packages via synaptic.  The error I get is:

Removing cupsys-driver-gimpprint ...
 * Usage: /etc/init.d/cupsd {start|stop|restart|force-reload}
dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gimpprint (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1

And since /etc/init.d/cupsd doesn't exist, I can understand why it's failing.

So the 2 questions:

a) anyone knows how to setup a Lexmark z53 printer? It works fine in a
Fedora partition on the same computer, so it's not a hardware problem.

b) Am I stuck with that cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages forever?  Or
there is a way to remove it even with that error.  I don't really like
having an unremovable package since that can only lead to problems on
the long run.