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forcing lexmark 5150 drivers on a dell a940

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Posted 23 April 2004 - 04:57 AM

as in windows xp etc can i force osx to use the lexmark 5150 drivers for my dell a940 usb .mac osx identifies the dell a940 under printer setup but i am a new mac user and don't know if i can force the use of other drivers as i can under win xp etc. any advice is welcome as i have thrown out my win desktop after too many crashes but like the dell printer.dell typically state that it is only compatible with xp .thanks again.
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Posted 25 April 2004 - 04:57 AM

Yes, you can force OS X to use drivers. But, that's not your problem. Your problem is that the Lexmark-provided driver doesn't support the cups comm modes (called backends in cups), and therefore doesn't work for shared/network printing.
It is possible that an open source driver for a related model could work:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/
Good luck.
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Posted 25 April 2004 - 09:27 PM

thanks for the reply.i am using the Dell as a standalone usb.how do I force drivers under osx? thanks.
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