CUPS and Lexmark Z32 inkjet not working well...

[Neil Woolford]

I've just started to try to print from the two machines that I've put 
Ubuntu on.  I've
started with a Lexmark z32 which was to hand. I'm setting it up as a local 
printer on the USB port.

I get a very strange effect at the end of printing;  rather than ejecting 
the page
and then being ready for the next print job, the printer ejects the page 
but then
flashes its power and paper-feed lamps.  New jobs sent to the print queue while
this is happening are marked as printing, and just vanish.

The printer seems to need to be reset by pressing the power or paper-feed 
switch
before another job can be printed.  Surely this can't be normal?

Worse still, on one of the machines it doesn't seem possible to set the 
printer up
properly at all anyway:  several tabs on the properties are blank, and 
OpenOffice.org writer
crashes on startup until the printer is removed from the (gnome) list.  It 
will sometimes
print a test page, sometimes not.  Reinstallation still gives blank tabs in 
the properties, and
greyed out paper size setting.

So;  the questions - is the light flashing a normal behaviour?  Is there 
anything I can check or adjust?
Is the (elderly) z32 a sensible choice or should I just get something newer?

Neil

PS  Naturally I also have issues with print quality, but they are to do 
with head alignment;
I think Lexmark may do Linux versions of their cartridge alignment utility.
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