Ignorance is blitz
1 January 2006 13:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kinzelIgnorance is blitz...
Not long ago, as the the glacier moves, I sent a note to Lexmark support saying something very much like:
"I'm looking at perhaps giving away several Lexmark multi-purpose 6170s
-- I have one in my office and my VP has one in hers as well -- because
I can't find Linux printer drivers for them. This is a serious issue; I
have an expanding business and, like a number of my small business
acquaintances, I've mostly moved to Linux. Without decent Linux drivers
for Lexmark I'm going to have to go back to HP. Steve Miller"
Well, I got a reply; the gist of it was I should visit a certain page. After a slight rummage, it turns out that Lexmark, bless their hearts, have released something they call... a Lexmark Linux Printer/AIO Driver Developer's Kit.
Now, I'm long ago and faraway from mucking about in the guts of software and am not in (as far as I know) the Linux Developer League..., and besides, that kind of work seems to directly impact my fiction writing time. Does anyone who reads here have an idea of what goes into futzing with something like what's available on this page at Lexmark so I can get this thing working? Am I looking at 10 hours? 5 weeks? 1 lost novel's worth of time?
One of the projects I want to get to is scanning in lots of old (circa 1976-1984) photos of fannish events...BSFS/BaltiCon, maybe a Worldcon... and besides, the Tektronix printer is on the frtiz and I still have some need of color printing.
If this won't take too long I might give it a go. Else I *will* have to buy a printer/scanner and that's not really something I want to do soon, even as cheap as some of them are these days.
Not long ago, as the the glacier moves, I sent a note to Lexmark support saying something very much like:
"I'm looking at perhaps giving away several Lexmark multi-purpose 6170s
-- I have one in my office and my VP has one in hers as well -- because
I can't find Linux printer drivers for them. This is a serious issue; I
have an expanding business and, like a number of my small business
acquaintances, I've mostly moved to Linux. Without decent Linux drivers
for Lexmark I'm going to have to go back to HP. Steve Miller"
Well, I got a reply; the gist of it was I should visit a certain page. After a slight rummage, it turns out that Lexmark, bless their hearts, have released something they call... a Lexmark Linux Printer/AIO Driver Developer's Kit.
Now, I'm long ago and faraway from mucking about in the guts of software and am not in (as far as I know) the Linux Developer League..., and besides, that kind of work seems to directly impact my fiction writing time. Does anyone who reads here have an idea of what goes into futzing with something like what's available on this page at Lexmark so I can get this thing working? Am I looking at 10 hours? 5 weeks? 1 lost novel's worth of time?
One of the projects I want to get to is scanning in lots of old (circa 1976-1984) photos of fannish events...BSFS/BaltiCon, maybe a Worldcon... and besides, the Tektronix printer is on the frtiz and I still have some need of color printing.
If this won't take too long I might give it a go. Else I *will* have to buy a printer/scanner and that's not really something I want to do soon, even as cheap as some of them are these days.
