Lexmark X1240 compatibility

I am planning on getting a MacBook Pro, but was just given a new printer - a Lexmark X1240 - Lexmark says it is not compatible with the Mac.
Anybody know of a way to make it work? My husband has a PC, so we don't want to have 2 different printers. This printer is pretty nice, too, copier/scanner/printer - and was free
Thanks for any help.

You would probably have to purchase a mac compatible printer that you can share with your husbands' PC.
For sharing your printer with windows users, go to www.apple.com/support and search "
Mac OS X 10.4 Help: Sharing your printer with Windows users."
Also, according to the Lexmark website, model number X1240 doesn't exist.
Mac compatible Lexmark printers can be found at the following site: http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/content/withoutnav/home/0,7316,204816596652569466_0en,00.html#selection

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I'm in the same boat as you.
According to Lexmark the Leopard drivers for this printer will be released on 19th January 2008.
See here:
http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596666691854_682634834en,00.html
Note: Lexmark made a mistake on the list and put this printer as X7500 but if you click on it, the page correctly display it as X7550.
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I just recently purchased a MacBook Pro with Lion OS 10.7.2 for my wife and have been trying to connect her Macbook to my Lexmark X5650 Printer that is connected to my Windows 7 Professional PC. Tried everything with no success. Any ideas? I have always been a PC user and this is my first MAC and really know nothing about them. Wife had to have it for Dental School and I am getting very frustrated
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The "Authentication Required" error can be related to the print driver. Many vendors create their OS X drivers for direct communication from the Mac to the printer. As soon as you stick a Windows computer or 3rd party print server in between the Mac and the printer, then you can get this error.
The thing to note is that when you added the printer via the Add Printer > Windows pane, vs CUPS or the Advanced SMB, you would have been prompted for your Windows credentials to see the printer share after selecting the Win7 computer name. If entering these details then showed you the shared printer, this rules out the problem being related to authentication information.
Working on the premise that the error is being caused by the driver then there are other driver options for OS X, such as Gutenprint. However, looking through the supported driver list for Gutenprint v5.2.7, there is not that many Lexmark printers and certainly not the X5650. And looking at other driver packages available for OS X, I cannot see this model so you may need to look at other options.
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Process: Z700-P700 Series Installer [3706]
Path: /Volumes/Lexmark Z700-P700 Series CD/OS X/Z700-P700 Series Installer
Identifier: Z700-P700 Series Installer
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: Z700-P700 Series Installer [3695]
Date/Time: 2008-10-11 15:28:25.923 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F33)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 translate 0xb80bc980 0xb8000000 + 772480
1 translate 0xb80b7007 0xb8000000 + 749575
2 translate 0xb80d49c0 0xb8000000 + 870848
3 translate 0xb813ce79 spinlockwrapper + 1981
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0 ??? 0x800bc4a6 0 + 2148254886
1 ??? 0x800c3c9c 0 + 2148285596
2 translate 0xb818b6ea CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 202886
3 ??? 0x800ed6f5 0 + 2148456181
4 ??? 0x800ed5b2 0 + 2148455858
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eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0xb80b6c78 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000003
edi: 0x8080d180 esi: 0x80303840 ebp: 0xb7fffa08 esp: 0xb7fffa00
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010246 eip: 0xb80bc980 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000
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Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
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0x0103298c: No symbol
0x01032e38: No symbol
0x0100ebd0: No symbol
0x010109d4: No symbol
0x01010d10: No symbol
0x010581f0: No symbol
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r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x002afd7c r23: 0x00000001
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--dave

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