I can't find a lexmark x83 printer driver

[Leif Nelson]

I can not find a printer driver that will run my lexmark x83 printer.
I went to lexmark.com and found a printer driver that works with windows xp pro.
I tried to run it with wine and that did not work.
are there any other drivers that will run a lexmark x83?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 12 12:48:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

According to http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-X83 somebody got it working with one of the Lexmark Z42 drivers, so you could try the gutenprint or drv_z42 driver. The drv_z42 is not included in Ubuntu, so you need to install it manually. Please update http://openprinting.org/edit_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-X83 with any additional information.
If neither of these drivers works correctly/as expected please blame Lexmark and ask them for a Linux driver.
If you recently bought your printer please consider returning it to the store were you purchased it and ask a refund, if more people do this then printer manufacturers could become aware that they need to create Linux printer drivers.

[Leif Nelson (leifpnelson)]

I had the same problem
now I transfer the files I want to print to a flash drive and use my win. xp
lap top
to print the files
leif
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:31 PM
Subject: [Bug 229641] Re: I can't find a lexmark x83 printer driver

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Bug description:
I can not find a printer driver that will run my lexmark x83 printer.
I went to lexmark.com and found a printer driver that works with windows xp
pro.
I tried to run it with wine and that did not work.
are there any other drivers that will run a lexmark x83?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 12 12:48:41 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: firefox-3.0Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Converting to question.