If you have one of the Lexmark Z601, Z602, Z604. Z605, Z615 or other Z600-series printers, this how-to will show you how to install it on your Linux system.
The Lexmark X1270 on Xandros 4 with the same Red Hat driver and instructions works also. The X-Series of printers are All-In-One printers, and these instructions work only for the printer, not the copier and scanner. (with thanks to JD McLeod)
For rpm-based distributions like Redhat, Suse and Mandrake, you can download rpms from the Lexmark site.
If you run a debian-based distro, like Knoppix or Ubuntu, read on.
- download CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz from Lexmark.com - it is the CUPS driver for RedHat 9.0
- Untar and unzip this file using
$ tar -zxvf CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz
- You will end up with a file called
z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
- Extract the .rpm part of this file using
sh z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -target temp_lex
this will create a sub-directory called "temp_lex" under the current directory, and put a whole lot of files in it. Ignore any errors you might get - if the two .rpm files are in temp_lex you are fine.
- In the newly created directory temp_lex you will find, amongst others, the files:
z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm, and
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
- To install to a debian system (or Ubuntu or Knoppix) you need to convert these two files to the .deb equivalent. The program to use is called "alien" and you run it as follows:
$ alien z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
$ alien z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm
- You will now find the dpkg packages:
z600cups-1.0-1.i386.deb
z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.deb
- Now install the driver with:
dpkg -i z600cups-1.0-1.i386.deb
dpkg -i z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.deb
- Now use CUPS or the Printer configuration tool in Ubuntu to add the printer