Its Wednesday, its that time of week for my post about Linux. I think its about time I gave it a name, it will now be known as “Linux Wednesdays!”

One of the hardest hardware manufactures to get to work on Linux is Lexmark. Lexmark make very good quality printers at a very good price, but there are not many Linux drivers for them. For anyone thinking about getting a printer for Linux, get a HP printer, there are great drivers for all their printers.

When I was using Windows, I purchased the Lexmark Z640 printer. The Z600series is very popular home printer, cheap and does the job. However, there are only drivers for Windows. So when I switched to Linux, my printer did not work. I spent my weeks of research, it turns out that Lexmark do provide drivers for the Z605 printer for RedHat users. I download these drivers, than converted the rpm file to deb and installed. I had finally got my colour inkjet printer to work on Linux.

To help Lexmark users out, below are the two drivers. Install “z600cups_1.0-2_i386″ first and then install “z600llpddk_2.0-2_i386″. I also understand these drivers may work with other Lexmark inkjet printers.

Right click and click “save as”

z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb

z600llpddk_2.0-2_i386.deb

Hope these drivers help, “Linux Wednesdays” back next week.