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Re: Printer drivers with wine???

nelz — Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:57 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:57 pm

Have you tried it with the gimp-print Z43 driver, this is claimed to give maximum resolution.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/forums.cgi?group=linuxprinting.general;article=6615

Re: Printer drivers with wine???

patek — Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:04 pm

Author: patek

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:04 pm

Ok, your solution seems to be genial, but I don't have enough cash for a new printer.
I've just migrated from win xp to Mandriva 2005.
I am using (currently NOT using) lexmark x1170 , and don't know if the windows drivers will work with wine. Will they?
Please help me:)
Regards

RE: Printer drivers with wine???

02bunced — Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:45 pm

Author: 02bunced

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:45 pm

Never mind: I have gone to buying a new printer

The HP Deskjet 6540 supports linux fully, so I have gone for that. It is also a nice price

RE: Printer drivers with wine???

02bunced — Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:16 pm

Author: 02bunced

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:16 pm

No, sorry.

I want to know if it is possible to use wine to run the Linux printer via a windows driver.

Thanks anyway

RE: Printer drivers with wine???

alloydog — Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:56 am

Author: alloydog

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:56 am

Any good:
http://www.la-sorciere.de/Wine-HOWTO/wineprintconfig.html

Printer drivers with wine???

02bunced — Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:41 am

Author: 02bunced

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:41 am

Hi all,

My problem is this; Lexmark, in all their wisdom, have decided that it takes effort to produce drivers for the Lexmark Z54 on Linux, so have done nothing. Unfortunatly, I already own a Lexmark Z54 printer, so am rather stuck. I know that you can use the Z43 driver, but that isn't good enough quality for what I need it for. My query is whether it is possible to put printer drivers through wine much like Ndis does for Wireless. Please help me, in your mercy!

Thank you

David