LexmarkZ810
Howto Install the Lexmark Z810 Series printer driver
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) has no built-in driver for Lexmark Z810 Series (Z815 / Z816) printers. This howto explains all necessary steps for installing a proper driver, the GNU-licensed CUPSZ810 by R. Cerqueira. On [http://cerqueira.org/software/z810/ the official homepage for the driver] you can always find the latest version of the sourcecode and some general FAQ for various distributions.
This howto was written for Version 0.7, and might not work for other versions.
Preparation
It is always a good idea to create a new directory for operations like this. Do it e.g. with mkdir ~/z810.
Download the latest version of the driver package from [http://cerqueira.org/software/z810/ the official homepage]. Currently this is v0.7, so the file is called [http://cerqueira.org/software/z810/Z810CUPS-0.7.tar.gz Z810CUPS-0.7.tar.gz].
Although the driver is open sourced, it relies heavily on a closed source library released by Lexmark. Download this file [http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/licenseZ800_rev2.html directly from Lexmark], after accepting the License Agreement. It should be called z810llpddk-2.0-3.i386.rpm.
Finally, make sure you have installed all necessary packages. If ubuntu-desktop wasn't installed you probably need additional packages, especially the cups printing system.
Open a terminal and input the following lines:
sudo apt-get install alien sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install libcupsys2-dev sudo apt-get install libcupsimage2-dev
Installation
At first, install the Lexmark library. As it is delivered in RPM package format, convert it into a WikiPedia:.deb using alien. Then install it via dpkg.
sudo alien z810llpddk-2.0-3.i386.rpm sudo dpkg -i z810llpddk_2.0-4_i386.deb
Now, extract, compile and install the cups driver:
tar -zxvf Z810CUPS-0.7.tar.gz cd Z810CUPS-0.7 sudo make rpm-compat sudo make sudo make install
If you take a look at the output of sudo make, you will recognize a warning regarding a wrong library version number. This is related to the fact that the Lexmark library hasn't been updated since 2004. However, it seems like that doesn't impose any problems.
Open System - Administration - Printing. You should see your printer now.