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Michel-Ekimia (michel.ekimia) wrote : Re: [Bug 902535] Re: Unable to print to Lexmark S405 since upgrade to 11.10

please can you post the debs somewhere?
Le 13 déc. 2012 07:11, "simon james" <email address hidden> a écrit :

> Just to report that there are new drivers on the Lexmark South Africa
> Support that work for 12.04
>
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> Title:
> Unable to print to Lexmark S405 since upgrade to 11.10
>
> Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
> Expired
> Status in “cups” source package in Precise:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Following the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 my Lexmark S405 now is
> unable to print.
>
> After removing all previous drivers (i.e. from a clean install of the
> printer), I have two options to proceed:
>
> If I connect the printer via USB and wait for "auto-detection", the
> system is able to determine that a Lexmark S405 has been added (and
> adds the printer as a "S300-S400-Series". However at the same time I
> get the following error message:
>
> "Not supported by this backend.
> The action is not supported by this backend. Please report a bug as this
> should not have happened. Provided postscript-driver not supported"
>
> The printer is added and does show up in CUPS. The device URI is given
> as:
> "://Lexmark/S300-S400%20Series?serial=90T409817388744&interface=1".
> Previously two packages were also added via the Software Centre (
> "lexmark-legacy-wsu (1.0-1)" and "lexmark-inkjet-legacy-wjre (1.0-1)"
> but my most recent attempt to rectify this fault was following updates
> to fix bug 897309. On this occasion (following the updated
> ghostscript) no software was added via the Software Centre.
>
> I also have the drivers from Lexmark (the second install option).
> These drivers will install (but if they detect either of the above
> mentioned packages then installation will fail) but, once you are
> prompted to connect the printer via USB the error message highlighted
> above also appears. The results from this approach is that two
> printers are installed...but neither of them work.
>
> Either method of installing the printer results in the same scenario -
> the printer is listed as "installed", but items in the print queue
> remain there without no response from the printer. A Test Page shows
> the printer as "Processing page 1" before eventually throwing an
> error.
>
> Incidentally it is possible to scan from the printer (it's an all-in-
> one printer) into Ubuntu, but it seems to be impossible to print out
> from Ubuntu. Also previous work suggested that this may be connected
> to bug 883585. Also, despite CUPS referring to itself as 1.5, the
> intro screen says "what's new in CUPS 1.4". The printer does show up
> in CUPS, but it seems to be impossible to carry out any maintenance on
> the printer within CUPS (but this may be my "newbie-ness" showing
> though).
>
>
> My first bug report so hope I've included everything!
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