Why not just re-download the driver for 10.04 and try that out on 12.04 or
14.04? If it works, it works, if not, no big deal.

If you have a spare harddrive to test with -- great. If not, you can likely
test with a live USB stick -- I have done similar things in the past.


On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:17 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Would this perhaps be somewhat of a starting point to obtain a currently
> installed printer-driver on an Ubuntu 10.04 computer? The problem I am
> having is that the 'Lexmark X5070' printer I have has no driver available
> on the Lexmark website for Ubuntu 12.04. Someone suggested I may be able to
> retain the current print driver and install it on Ubuntu 12.04. I know I
> can read more but suggestions are welcome.
>
> Moving printer definitions from one machine to another
>
> Let us say that you have a print server with 30 defined printers. And you
> have to move all those printers to another machine, because you want to
> retire that server. Sounds difficult? Yes. But it isn't.
>
> At least if you have a CentOS 4 or CentOS 3 machine, the printconf command
> vanished from CentOS 5.
>
>   *Note:* For moving printer configs with CentOS 5 please see this page<http://cyberelk.net/tim/2007/05/04/what-happened-to-printconf-tui/>until it gets incorporated into the wiki.
>
> Here's how to do it
>
> Make yourself at home as root on the old server.
>
> Issue the following command:
>
> printconf-tui --Xexport > printers.xml
>
> Now copy the printers.xml to the new machine.
>
> Log on to this machine as root, also.
>
> Do the following:
>
> printconf-tui --Ximport < printers.xml
>
> Now the last thing you have to do is restart cups on the new machine - and
> you're ready:
>
> service cups restart
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
>
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