[OpenIndiana-discuss] rastertoz55 and the Lexmark X6170

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 17/03/2015 22:07, John D Groenveld wrote:
> In message <55089372.2010509 at kit.edu>, "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" writes:
>> I don't think the question of the poster was how to compile
>> CUPS and foomatic, but how to get support for that specific
>> z55 Lexmark printer. And all that can be said about that is
>> that there is no such support in Solaris, because that
>> rastertoz55 program is proprietary stuff that only is available
>> for the usual suspects.
>
> Is z55 printer backwards compatible with z51 PCL?
> <URL:http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev/manifest/0/print%2Flp%2Ffilter%2Ffoomatic-ppds%400.2008.8.18%2C5.11-0.151.1.9%3A20140117T203021Z>

I don't know since it's closed source, but I know that
z53 could also work to some degree with a z55. Anyway,
worth a try since the software is already there, but some
hacking in the ppd and xml files is necessary to get
that model directed to that driver. And then plug and pray...