<div>Have you tried loading up the printer configuration/add printer stuff? At home I remember opening the cups settings within Ubuntu and it said "do you want me to search for printers on the network" I said "yes", it said "I have found this HP network printer, do you want me to download the drivers?" Knowing my brothers HP network printer to be on the network and ready I clicked "yes". After a short while and a couple of progress bard I was asked "Do you want to print a test page?", "Yes" I clicked with exuberance. And behold, a pretty page of patterns came forth from the printer... From that moment I was impressed with Ubuntu and where Linux has got to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The morel of the story... Try the wizard under cups (If you haven't already).</div><div><br></div><div>Cups documentation:</div><div><a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/cupsdocumentation">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/cupsdocumentation</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Failing that, see if you can access the printer by IP. It has a web interface doesn't it? That is a good place to start.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a list of printers (and their level of support) here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro">http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro</a></div><div><a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/database/databaseintro"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">X4550 - Doesn't appear to be in it.</span><br>
<br></div><div>Look into mac support as mac uses cups, looking at google there appear to be lots of people having difficulty with that model under mac (Lexmark took a long time to get a driver update out).</div><div><br></div>
<div>Sadly the morel of the story is Lexmark printers (In my experience) are painful. They are big fans of selling the printer at very low cost and the ink at £5 less than the cost of a new printer. </div><div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 December 2010 06:25, Stuart Brand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart@stuartbrand.co.uk">stuart@stuartbrand.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 01:40 +0000, Alex Layfield wrote:<br>
> Surely in this day & age, we've grown out of the linux hardware incompatibility issue...?<br>
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> Don't particularly want 2 do a virtual box, bit ugly.<br>
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> Wine won't install the Lexmark driver/prog, just semi uninstalls itself immediately.(?!)<br>
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> I know the answer is 2 get another cheapy wifi printer from a well known superstore, but I DON'T like being beaten.<br>
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</div>Why are you not using cups?<br>
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