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Posted: Aug. 12 2004,16:04 QUOTE
:) hi there  does any1 know if my printer setup looks ok or could tell me what is wrong i get no signal to the printer at all :This is my /etc/printcap
lp|LexZ11|lexmarkZ11:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/LexZ11:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs and this is what apsfilter says when test page done Printing Test page using:
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER                 -dSAFER -r600x600 -sDEVICE=bitcmyk -sPAPERSIZE=letter             -sOutputFile='/tmp/apsfilter290/test_page.aps' setup/test.ps | 'cZ11'                

Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y

Creating test page...
LexZ11: No pages printed!
real    0m7.053s
user    0m5.610s
sys     0m0.490s

Printing test page...
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     16830000 Aug 12 11:54 /tmp/apsfilter290/test_page.aps

nothing happens al i missing somthing please help

thank
         pete
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Posted: Aug. 12 2004,16:26 QUOTE
DULL QUESTION BUT IS YOUR PRINTER ACTUALLY A Z11.....
AS IT APPEARS THAT APSFILTER  ISN'T LINKING THE PRINTER FILTER TO THE DEVICE......
LEXMARK ARE A BIT OF A KNIGHTMARE AS LOTS OF THEIR PRINTERS DO NOT HAVE BUILT IN DRIVERS THEY RELY ON SOFTWARE ON THE PC INSTEAD APSFILTER IS UNABLE TO DRIVE THE PRINTER WITHOUT A DRIVER.......

???  ???  ??? cONFUSED YOU WILL BE.....................
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Posted: Aug. 12 2004,20:47 QUOTE
Lexmark printers = teh evil when it comes to linux

my suggestion is to go buy yourself a nice epson printer.

most printers in the stylus line work great with the ghostscript drivers.

-J.P.
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Posted: Aug. 12 2004,21:28 QUOTE
I don't own a Lexmark printer, but I did a quick Google search on

Lexmark Z11 apsfilter

and this link looks promising:

http://www.kornblum.i-p.com/Z11/LexmarkZ11.html

You could also do the Google search and maybe find even more information.

Hope this helps.
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Posted: Aug. 13 2004,11:17 QUOTE
Lexmark also offer a linux driver from their website
but yould need gcc g++ make etc to install....its a source tarball
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