OK So finally I decided to use the free printer that came with my Dell inspiron 2200 laptop after nearly 1.5 years of leaving it in it's original box it came in - mainly cause i know this is the kind of printer that is more expesnive to run (by the cost of the ink cartridge) than what the printer is worth

It registered as a USB device in /dev/usb/lp0 straight away but i was unable to configure it until a friend of mine mentioned that Dell generally rebadge other printers (usually lexmark), so this got me digging in the right direction, to find out that i needed the z600 linux driver

To save you the hassle i have converted lexmark's broken package for installation into two seperate sarge debian .deb files. z600cups_1.0-2_i386.deb
and z600llpddk_2.0-2_i386.deb You will need to install them both,, as well as using all the correct current cupsys drivers (not lprng) I only got this to work by using the cups local web admin interface at http://localhost:631 , when it asked me for a driver i gave it the PPD file which should be located in /usr/share/cups/model/Lexmark-Z600-lxz600cj-cups.ppd.gz once you have the above deb's installed.

I got an error of "client-error-bad-request" when i tried to setup the printer thru KDE, so thats why i had to use the localhost:631 method.

Make sure the following command executes as follows, this means the deb packages for the z600 series driver installed correctly..

dgtlmoon@seven:/usr/share/cups/model$ /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoz600
ERROR: rastertoz600 job-id user title copies options [file]
dgtlmoon@seven:/usr/share/cups/model$                        

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