There exists a lcm3200-tweaked driver -- but it prints in black only... with either flooded ink or too little... and you have to turn off and the printer after each job (nightmare anyone?). Lexmark provides a known working *binary* driver for the above. I noticed how portage installed RealPlayer from a .rpm file -- wondered if the same could be done for this printer driver. Attached is the .rpm and README.txt straight from the Lexmark website.
Woops; appears the .rpm was too large to upload. Here's some links: Binary .rpm driver: http://www.ncaabbs.com/~gts/lexmarkz22-z32-1.0-5.i386.rpm Included README.txt: http://www.ncaabbs.com/~gts/README.txt
maintainer and ebuild needed.
I was able to get this to work using rpm2targz .... extracting the files into the filesystem... then installing LinuxPrinting.org's Lexmark foomatic kit to work with CUPS. It works, shockingly, better than it ever did on Windows years ago ... and light years better than the lxm3200-tweaked open source driver. When I get some time to read up on how ebuilds work; I'll make one for this.
Hi, You might want to use the rpm eclass for that. net-analyzer/nessus-bin should provide a good example of using rpms with ebuilds. Cheers
Created attachment 86525 [details] Lexmark Z32 ebuild This is my first ebuild... be gentle...
Changed to x86 since the Lexmark only provides a 32 bit binary.
The driver is very old, very unmaintained, and I have since moved on to using a non-craptastic printer. No interest in over two years, time for this bug to die.
