problem with Lexmark z53 and cupsys-driver-gimpprint [SOLVED]

[Daniel Robitaille]

All my problems have been solved:  I can now print with my Lexmark
z53.  Like Martin said below, my problems with cupsys-driver-gimpprint
were solved with the latest version uploaded yesterday.  As for the
printer itself, when I decided to try the  printer using its USB
connection instead of  the parallel port (it allows both mode)  all my
problems went away and I can now print properly.

I have been using that printer with the parallel port for 3 years on
various versions of Windows, Red Hat and Fedora without any problem. 
I'm not sure why it doesn't work with Ubuntu.  Processes would send
print job to the printer and then they would simply sit there.  But
Ubuntu knew that there was a printer on the parallel port since it
could see it when creating a new print queue (but the print test job
never worked either)

But since that z53 works with USB, I'm not going to bother digging
deeper into that problem.

Daniel


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:20:42 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel!
> 
> On 2004-10-03  0:29 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I uploaded a new gimp-print package yesterday which should fix this.
> Thanks for catching.
> 
> Martin
> 
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