[ale] Lexmark Z12 & RH 9

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

On Friday 07 November 2003 02:37 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Jim Philips wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:30 pm, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > > My girlfriend's computer died a while back, and after much futzing
> > > around on my part, I have assembled a replacement (and moved her over
> > > to Linux in the process - so far so good). The challenge is getting the
> > > printer to work...
>
> <<snip>>
>
> > Or you can get the rpm's from your distro. Understand, though, that
> > Linuxprinting.org shows that you printer works "partially" on Linux.
> > Lexmark hasn't been very cooperative with the open source community.
>
> An update. I had actually managed to hit linuxprinting.org with Google,
> and not realized it. <grrr> On the basis of more exploration on
> linuxprinting.org, and general frustration, and that I expect she will
> want to print more pictures, I think I'll invest in an Epson or HP for
> her, and save the battle of the printer for later. Now to find out if she
> wants to go with just a printer, or one of those all-in-one jobbies...
> (I'm hoping just the printer).

I have good luck with Epson. And with escputil, you can align heads, clean 
heads and check ink levels. Epson printers are always very well supported 
under Linux.