Lexmark E460DN Laser Printer will it work on Fedora 23 and on?

[Darlene Wallach]

Hi,

I found a refurbished Lexmark laser printer online. Unfortunately,
they only have drivers up to Fedora 17. They have Fedora 11 - Fedora
17 listed.

Does anyone know if those drivers would work on Fedora 23 an onward?

Since I have a *very* old Fedora distribution, Fedora 13, the printer
would be supported.

However, I would not want to buy the printer then not have it work
when I install a current Fedora distribution.

Does anyone know how to determine if the Lexmark drivers would work on
the current Fedora distributions, 23 and 24?

Thank you

Darlene Wallach
408.294.5781 landline

[William Oliver]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2016, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a refurbished Lexmark laser printer online. Unfortunately,
> they only have drivers up to Fedora 17. They have Fedora 11 - Fedora
> 17 listed.
>
> Does anyone know if those drivers would work on Fedora 23 an onward?
>
> Since I have a *very* old Fedora distribution, Fedora 13, the printer
> would be supported.
>
> However, I would not want to buy the printer then not have it work
> when I install a current Fedora distribution.
>
> Does anyone know how to determine if the Lexmark drivers would work on
> the current Fedora distributions, 23 and 24?
>
> Thank you
>
> Darlene Wallach
> 408.294.5781 landline

Well, it looks like there's a linux driver claiming support for Fedora 23.

https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/23/s390/f/foomatic-db-4.0-47.201508...

YMMV, of course...

billo

[Rick Stevens]

On 07/05/2016 02:46 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a refurbished Lexmark laser printer online. Unfortunately,
> they only have drivers up to Fedora 17. They have Fedora 11 - Fedora
> 17 listed.
>
> Does anyone know if those drivers would work on Fedora 23 an onward?

According to openprinting.org (the keepers of "foomatic), it works
"perfectly":

http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lexmark/Lexmark-E460dn

They recommend you use the "Postscript-Lexmark" foomatic driver.
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[Sam Varshavchik]

Rick Stevens writes:
> On 07/05/2016 02:46 PM, Darlene Wallach wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a refurbished Lexmark laser printer online. Unfortunately,
> > they only have drivers up to Fedora 17. They have Fedora 11 - Fedora
> > 17 listed.
> >
> > Does anyone know if those drivers would work on Fedora 23 an onward?
>
> According to openprinting.org (the keepers of "foomatic), it works
> "perfectly":

So does my MS-410d, apparently, but when it wakes up from power-save mode it  
likes to eat the first print job, than start spewing out garbage pages. I  
found out that by unplugging the USB cable and plugging it back in that's  
enough to reset the printer to a good state.

I posted a question on openprinting.org; and I'll ask here too, by chance  
anyone encountered this before.
> http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Lexmark/Lexmark-E460dn
>
> They recommend you use the "Postscript-Lexmark" foomatic driver.

That's what CUPS did by itself, when I plugged mine in. Except for waking up  
from power-saving mode, it works fine.