Bug 35475 – missing driver

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Bug 35475 - missing driver

Summary:	missing driver

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ghostscript (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Crutcher Dunnavant
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2001-04-10 13:19 EDT by Michal Jaegermann
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-04-10 13:19:41 EDT
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repacked utilities for head handling in Lexmark colour jets (13.97 KB, application/octet-stream) 2001-04-17 00:48 EDT, Michal Jaegermann	no flags	Details
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2001-04-10 13:19:37 EDT

Why ghostscript version included in a distribution does not include
Lexmark 5000 Colour Jetprinter driver which can be found here:

http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/lexmark/lexmark.html

This is not a perfect driver by any means but I can attest that I have
seen it working in colour with Lexmarks from 5xxx series and it should
work with 7xxx as well.  Included drivers for those printers (Taylor
and Paluch) support only black-and-white printing.  I am not aware,
alas, of anything better but if included maybe some owners of such
printers do more hacking?  Most of them is likely unaware about this
driver.

With the current LPRng and printconf setup adding it outside distribution
comes to a rather non-trivial hacking exercise much harder than it used
to be.  Sigh!

  Michal
  michal@harddata.com

Comment 1 Crutcher Dunnavant 2001-04-11 16:19:19 EDT

adding it. will be in sowe future release

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2001-04-17 00:48:30 EDT

Created attachment 15484 [details]
repacked utilities for head handling in Lexmark colour jets

Comment 3 Michal Jaegermann 2001-04-17 00:56:16 EDT

The author of the driver mentioned in the entry has some utilities for
handling heads in Lexmark colour ink-jets ('headalign' tester is likely
the most important) but he ties them to ghostscript.  They really have
nothing with it.  Attached is an initial src.rpm package (makes "noarch")
which splits them from this company.  A raw printer queue with a specific
name (alias ok) is required.  The original script was trivially modified.
Some BuildPrereq (pod2man) should likely be added.

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