I recently installed my Lexmark E120n (E120 with a network interface in addition to the USB) on Maverick. Unfortunately, printing didn't work, neither via USB nor via ethernet. The problem manifests itself in the printer starting to roll the drum, but never actually feeding the paper from the feed. Upgrading to Natty didn't help, neither did the driver from openprinting.org; yet I'm fairly certain it worked out-of-the-box in prior versions of Ubuntu. It really seems to be due to an incorrect PPD file, created by PPD-O-MATIC.
The problem, and a solution which worked for me as well, have been described here (props to user ChiVampir):
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/problems-with-lexmark-e120n-printer-after-installing-ubuntu-10-10-a-837428/
TL;DR: replace the contents of the file /etc/cups/ppd/Lexmark-E120n.ppd by the one attached to this bug (which was seemingly written by Lexmark themselves, judging from the copyright notice). Ubuntu should be distributed with the latter from the start, or a working alternative.
Even though I already had a solution, I decided to report this bug since, firstly, it took me some time to find the correct solution & others should have it easier (and one needs to have a linuxquestions.org account to access the file), and secondly, I think that Ubuntu should be as flawless an experience as possible _especially_ in the regime of printing (for which Linux has some notoriety), and this is a showstopper. Apparently not too many people are keen on testing different printer models - well, here you go. One down, N-1 more to go.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog: W [26/Jun/2011:22:37:20 +0200] Bad resolution "PrinterS" for printer Lexmark-E120n.
Date: Sun Jun 26 22:53:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
Lpstat:
device for Lexmark-E120n: socket://192.168.0.104:9100
Lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Packard Bell DOT SE
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
LaserJet-CB-KTH: HP LaserJet 4350 Postscript (recommended)
/etc/cups/ppd/Lexmark-E120n.ppd:*NickName: "Lexmark E120n"
Canon-C5051i: Canon iR-ADV C5045/5051 UFR II ver.2.2
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-20 (6 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 10/07/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Packard Bell
dmi.bios.version: V3.08(DDR3)
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: SJE02_PT
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V3.08(DDR3)
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Packard Bell
dmi.chassis.version: V3.08(DDR3)
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPackardBell:bvrV3.08(DDR3):bd10/07/2010:svnPackardBell:pnDOTSE:pvrV3.08(DDR3):rvnAcer:rnSJE02_PT:rvrV3.08(DDR3):cvnPackardBell:ct10:cvrV3.08(DDR3):
dmi.product.name: DOT SE
dmi.product.version: V3.08(DDR3)
dmi.sys.vendor: Packard Bell
The PPD you provided contains some errors (as seen in your CupsErrorLog output) and the license of this file doesn't allow changing:
$ LANG=C cupstestppd lex120n.ppd
lex120n.ppd: FAIL
**FAIL** Bad Resolution choice PrinterS!
**FAIL** Bad Resolution choice 1200IQ!
Actually the driver was changed from pxlmono to Postscript starting with maverick (see bug #548747).
But fortunatelly the other drivers are still there, you can change them in System > Administration > Printing (system-
Which driver gives the best print quality (try text/lineart/
Also does this printer support automatic double sided printing (duplex)? Optional module?