Thanks for your reply Jeff. I have to say 'Yes' I have previously tried to install the driver for the Lexmark x5070 on Ubuntu 12.04 but it did not work. I have also tried to install the driver on the Linux Mint Maya 13 distro. Someone said I may be able likely able to copy the driver files from your 10.04 box and install them on the 12.04 (or preferrably 14.04) server. So it's either buy a newer printer or figure out how to copy the driver files over. I tried to dig into it a bit before and the driver I think interacts with cups fine but it was an issue with actually getting any output from the printer. No big deal I just figured I would ask and see what others thought. Thanks for the help though. Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:36:48 -0500 From: chapinjeff at gmail.com To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Exporting currently installed printer driver? 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 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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140327/14ce4273/attachment.html>