Printing: (old) Lexmark Printer via USB - Router - Arch

Hey Guys,
i am trying to get my printer working on Arch.
Printer: Lexmark T632
Router: (Vodafone) EasyBox 802
System: Arch
The printer is kinda old and does not have a network connection, so it is connected via usb with the router.
Printing works with windows (xp to 8).
At the moment i have cups installed, as well as "lexmark-inkjet-legacy".
Cups is working and i can access the network interface, also i can set up a printer. (i did, and its not working - when i try to print the interface says "Filter Failed")
What i did in windows to get it working:
1. add a local printer
2. create a new interface -> default TCP/IP
3. enter ip of the router, in my case 192.168.2.1
4. select the driver
5. for devicetype select custom and not generic
6. in this custom window select protokoll "lpr"
7. and it works.
So, i tried doing this in cups:
1. add printer, LPD/LPR Host or Printer
2. entered ip: "192.168.2.1/515" (as 515 is his queue name given in the router settings), just "192.168.2.1" did not work
3. enter name etc
4. now i can either choose a specific driver, or upload a ppd file. i did the last one as the list does not contain my printer. The file i used for this is http://support.lexmark.com/index?docLoc … rlocale=EN
Now, if i try to print via "lpr filename", no error occurs. But in the networkinterface under "Jobs" under "State" says "stopped, Filter failed"
Guess this is because i dont have the right driver for my printer.
The Lexmark webside provides a .deb package for my printer, but installing this did not help (see http://support.lexmark.com:80/lexmark/i … id=DR21363 ) or get me more entries in the driver selection.
This download also provides a tool called "lexmark" where you can setup printers - but i did not figure out how to use this to set up an lpd printer.
does anyone has an idea what i could do?
Last edited by cars10 (2014-04-21 20:35:08)

czubek wrote:Qinohe had a good suggestion with the RPi. It has two usb ports. One could serve the printer and the other a usb wifi dongle. I have an RPi for my print server but it is hard wired to my router.
Using a RPI has another advantage, you could setup SANE to act as a server together with xinetd, that way everybody in the house can use the scanner too, could be a lot of walking, though
I seldom use the scanner, so I decided to keep that one local, on the PI.
Btw. Mine is also hardwired..

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