Tutorials/Set up a Dell A920 printer with SUSE Linux

I wrote this tutorial for my A920, but it has been reported to work with

• Dell A920
• Dell Photo 720
• Lexmark z615

check the environment

change to root

su -

have CUPS running

kolossus:~ # /etc/init.d/cups status
Checking for cupsd:                                                    running
kolossus:~ #

Get the files

• download this file (from Lexmark)
• rename CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.TAR.gz to CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.tar.gz
• extract CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1.tar.gz to /home/myuser. You get /home/myuser/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1
• in /home/myuser/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1, start (there may be a skippable error message)

chmod 777 z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh
./z600cups-1.0-1.gz.sh -target target

You'll find the extracted files in the folder target.

• change dir to /home/myuser/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1/target

install the driver

• install z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh z600llpddk-2.0-1.i386.rpm

• try to install z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm

kolossus:/home/myuser/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1/target # rpm -ivh  z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        cups >= 1:1.1.15-10 is needed by z600cups-1.0-1
kolossus:/home/myuser/CJLZ600LE-CUPS-1.0-1/target #

• verify that your cups version is >=1.1.15-10

kolossus:~ # rpm -qv cups
cups-1.1.20-103
kolossus:~ #

• install z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm

rpm -ivh --nodeps z600cups-1.0-1.i386.rpm

install the printer

• get a cups password

lppasswd -a cups

• point your browser to http://localhost:631
• chose Manage Printers|Add printer
• log in with the username cups and your cups password
• take a920 as name, leave description and location blank -> Continue
• take USB Printer #1 as device -> Continue
• in the following dialog, chose LEXMARK -> Continue
• Chose Lexmark Z600 v1.0-1 (en) -> Continue
• select a920
• select print Testpage

now it works at me.

additional info

the link for the Linux Development Kit can be found at:

http://www.lexmark.com/US/products/info/linux/

How to do it with RedHat 9: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=152840
Where I started: http://josiah.ritchietribe.net/blog/archive/2004/04/714/
How to do it with gentoo: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=149001
How to do it with debian: http://www.finebushpeople.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=98/