Lexmark printer cartridge alignment

[kyrre at solution-forge.net]

Personally, i had a "good" experience with lexmarks binary drivers with
some Laser printers. Only thing that sucked was that i had to use their
app to config it, and it refused to show up in system-config-printer
(exept the one connected to lp0). And *then* edit the printers.conf (i
think) to make it print to a SMB host...

The reason that i had to use their drivers, is that the RH supplied ones
failed to print *some* pages... And the printer said it was PS compatible.

HP is usually nice, tough.

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:39:48PM +0200, huffman at graze.net wrote:
>>
>> ... and found one stumbling block for which I couldn't find a
>> solution.  She has a small Lexmark inkjet printer - think it's
>> like a Z21 or something.  In windows she's able to "align the
>> print cartridges" without which both graphics and text that look
>> choppy.  I see no way to do this under linux.
>
> Not that this has much to do with testing Fedora, but ...
>
> The way to do that under Linux is just to "print" to a printer an
> appriopriate binary pattern.  Possibly you may need to create a
> "raw" queue on that printer, and send these files through that, in
> order to prevent a print system from beeing "smart".  I do not know.
>
> A long time ago I was hacking for a friend a support for one of
> those Lexmark jets, which was not a very gratifying experience, and
> found that web page:
>
> http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/lexmark/lexmark.html
>
> You will find there, among other things, files for a head aligment
> and head cleaning and a bit more.  AFAIK they fit all these
> small Lexmark jets but you will have to try.
>
> You are in a better situation then me at that time as most likely
> one of Lexmark drivers included with Fedora will be ok for that
> printer (Lexmark 7000, or 7200, or Z22 if they indeed are
> different).  How well this will fit I have no idea.
>
>    Michal
>
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