On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:00:58PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > The printer is a > > Lexmark Z51 so I don't know if there are linux drivers but I figured I > > would > > tinker with linux on a spair HD and learn it better, and maybe replace > > Win2000 with it, well mostly... > > I have a Lexmark Z51 and I rue the day that I bought it instead of an HP. > Stupid, stupid, stupid. Lexmark, for some incomprehensible reason, has good > Linux support for their laser printers but horrible support for their deskjet > printers. Under Linux, it only prints in b&w; color gets mangled badly. If you > can live without color, it works fine; otherwise, ask for an Epson or HP for > Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa. My girlfriend has the rebranded lexmark Z51 as a compaq something or another, it prints fine in color using LPRng and the lexmark drivers, it also has all the cartridge install/clean/align stuff in there, works fairly well. > :Peter -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203