Lexmark 1020

[Robin Laing]

M.Hockings wrote:
> Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Guys I have  lexmark 1020 the driver is provided in FC1 but it dont
>> work, The printmanager spool the print job but the printer remains
>> dormant. Yes it is on and yes I have checked the printer settings, I 
>> have looked on http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and the driver is there I
>> compiled and installed the driver but the same results.
>> It is an lpt printer. I only have a black cartridge.
>>
>> I tested the printer in windowze and its fine!??#
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Chad
>>  
>>
> In the FWIW category, I have a Lexmark 2050 for which FC1 has a driver 
> (c2050) but it dunna seem to work at all.  Same results as what you see 
> with the printer either directly or remotely connected.  In Windows it 
> works fine directly connected to a machine but fails to work if shared 
> so it seems (to me) that the Windows driver is not all that great either.
> 
> linuxprinting lists Lexmark inkjets under the "useless" category of 
> vendors http://www.linuxprinting.org/vendors.html
> 
> Now I have a cheap Brother laser printer that cost me less than the 2050 
> did.  It is hung on the lan with a D-link printer port thing and works 
> fine from Windows (95, 98, 2K, XP) and  Linux (rh9, fc1, bsd).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mike
> 

I purchased a Lexmark inkjet printer after finding Linux drivers on 
the Lexmark WWW page.  I got rid of the printer a couple of months 
later due to many printing problems.  Purchased an Epson and havn't 
had any problems yet.  The Epson was cheaper than the Lexmark ink 
cartridges that were causing me all my problems.

Fedora installed and recognized the printer from scratch.  The only 
problem I had was with "The Gimp" and that was a simple configuration.

-- 
Robin Laing