[SunHELP] Lexmark Z52 & Solaris

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Quoth Steve Wingate [mailto:steve at velosystems.net] on Tuesday, November 06,
2001 12:07 AM:

> Is anyone using a Lexmark Zxx series printer on a Sun box with/without
> success? I can't seem to get it to print a thing following my Admin I book
> steps to the letter. I'm beginning to think it might be one of those GDI
> Windows-only printers, even though there are Linux drivers on the Lexmark
> website.
> I'm trying both with it directly connected and through a Linksys
printserver
> box.

We've got a Lexmark Z22-Z32 on a Windows machine, and it does seem to be
some sort of Windows-only printer.  When connected to the Wintel machine via
USB, it will only print from Windows, not even from DOS applications.  When
connected via the parallel port, it will print from both Windows and DOS
apps, but very, very slowly.  This "no DOS on USB" bit of information is
buried in the Windows help file for the printer, not exactly the first place
a DOS user would look.

Note that this is not neccessarily the same printer, and certainly not the
same OS, you're asking about; I'm just giving evidence that your
"Windows-only" supposition may be correct.

-Shel