Is there a driver for the lexmark X1185??

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Are you using the Z600 driver now, or something else?

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:05:05 -0500, beartooth wrote:

> I've just bought a Lexmark X1185, and everything I try to print
> from FC3 aborts. I hope eventually to use this printer with FC1 and
> XP, but am trying it out on my testbed machine, which will become a
> LAN server when I learn how, and is meanwhile trying out FC3.
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> It would be nice to be able to print from FC3 while I have it,
> but it's FC1 nd XP that will really matter.
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> However, I've poked around, on the Web (including especially
> linuxprinting) and on the CD that came with the printer, and don't
> see any Fedora drivers for it anywhere.
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> I already asked on the lexmark forum at linuxprinting, and go no answer
> there; I also asked on gmane.fedora.general (whatever the underlying list
> is), and got only the URLs for linuxprinting and the SANE project; but the
> Sane project explicitly says "not supported" (and gives a wad of detail
> that's over my head).
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> Have I missed something obvious? *Is* there anything? Or am I
> going to have to get a different printer? (I don't really expect to print
> much if anything from YDL 4.0; but any leads to a driver for it might help
> find one for Fedora. Also, it seems to be a nice machine, and may appeal
> to others here who use their printers more.)