Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 35475
missing driver
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:38 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
adding it. will be in sowe future release
Created attachment 15484 [details] repacked utilities for head handling in Lexmark colour jets
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.