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H_TeXMeX_H:
It's not as easy as you think, especially since Lexmark refuses to provide even basic tools to get it done. (They say they provide a toolkit to write Linux drivers, but it doesn't work ... as one person put it ... even if you knew how to use the toolkit it wouldn't help you any)

pofnlice:
damn it...

I wonder...could the printer drivers be run yunder wine or some other prog? hmmm...now I'm thinking...

worker201:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---It's not as easy as you think, especially since Lexmark refuses to provide even basic tools to get it done. (They say they provide a toolkit to write Linux drivers, but it doesn't work ... as one person put it ... even if you knew how to use the toolkit it wouldn't help you any)
--- End quote ---

That's probably true.  But I bet it would be possible, even if it was a lot of hard work.  I figure the first thing to do would be to install the printer on a Windows computer, and then watch the control sentences the software spews out to the spooler.  If you have a basic knowlege of how other print software works, this will probably be easier, because you will probably see sentences you recognize.  From there it is just a matter of writing a 2way interpreter for the sentences into some basic control language that the target OS's spooler can understand.

Unfortunately, any of the above would probably find you at odds with the hardware/software license agreement, and Lexmark could, in theory, have you shot.

So, the only reason certain bits of hardware don't work in Linux is that nobody has the time or the desire to handle the risk and build the driver.  Eventually, though, someone will get around to it.  Might be a hundred years from now, but I'm sure it will get done.

Jack2000:
i wonder if you could jsut run the dll's and drivers and shit
and make the program look for them there
then you are set up :) any program, anywhere

pofnlice:
OK...one would start here... Lexmark x2350 driver download page

Then Check here Firmware compatibility

And the Publications

Then the Linux Developers kit

Then I'll see where I get from there.


HEY! Looky what I found! Lexmark Print Drivers for Unix & Linux Systems Users Guide

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