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layout: post
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status: publish
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published: true
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title: Use a Xerox printer on Ubuntu
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author: Julien Lengrand-Lambert
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author_login: jlengrand
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author_email: julien@lengrand.fr
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author_url: http://www.lengrand.fr
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wordpress_id: 882
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wordpress_url: http://www.lengrand.fr/?p=882
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date: 2013-09-18 09:11:56.000000000 +02:00
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categories:
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- tips
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tags:
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- ubuntu
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- linux
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- xerox
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- '13.04'
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- printer
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- phaser
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- aptitude
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comments: []
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A quick and small post that could save some of you a few hours.
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If you're like me, you may have a <strong><a title="Xerox website" href="http://www.office.xerox.com/">Xerox</a> printer</strong> of phazer in your work or home environmenent.
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And your <strong>ubuntu</strong> is unable to print any document on this printer, displaying fancy errors like <a title="filter failed forum" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2136163" target="_blank"><strong>"filter failed"</strong></a>.
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Before going on the <a title="xerox support" href="http://www.support.xerox.com/support/enus.html" target="_blank">Xerox website</a> searching for ugly tar.gz files to install; and read dozens of forums and documentation pages to finally get the printer to work;
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try to install <a title="foomatic website" href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/databasefoomatic" target="_blank"><strong>foomatic-db</strong></a>.
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It is as simple as
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{% highlight bash %}
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sudo apt-get install foomatic-db
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{% endhighlight %}
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on an ubuntu (13.04, in my case).
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This worked like a charm for me.
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The part is don't get is why this foomatic-db is so hard to find. I had to search for the package listing, making searches about xerox drivers to find it.
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I found no reference about it on the internet what so ever with the "filter failed" keywords.
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Hope this helps some of you.
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Cheers
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