Need help to install .tar.gz driver for Samsung CLP-310 printer

[phuki]

Hello,

on my 8.10 version, just pluging the usb did the trick for me. The printer was immediatly recognized and could be used at once.

Haven't tried yet on jaunty though. Let me try and i'll give you some feedback

[isa.k]

Yeah, that would be great...

Mine was 'recognised' as well, however, the drivers closest to it were the 300 and 315 models.

I use the 315 driver at the moment, and print in b&w... Better than nothing I guess?

[phuki]

Just tried it and you're right, the printer is not really recognised, altough I'm pretty sure it was in 8.10. Maybe because Jaunty is still too recent...
Then I tried the way suggested by tommcd but it didn't work either.

Something else i tried: in the "cdroot" folder there's an "autorun" file , inside which is a command saying:
"exec sh $BASE/Linux/install.sh"
so i did in the terminal:

sudo exec sh /home/USERNAME/cdroot/Linux/install.sh

a line appeared saying some "lib..." files were not found but I couldn't read for the terminal immediately disappears.

so now, I'm stuck at that point.

[isa.k]

/...snip.../a line appeared saying some "lib..." files were not found but I couldn't read for the terminal immediately disappears.

so now, I'm stuck at that point.

Perhaps a finger hovering above the PrintScreen button just before you expect it to pop up and disappear, and if you are quick enough, you may be able to hit the key on time, so as to be able to give us all a glimpse of what it is exactly?

Just an idea...

... ok, wishful thinking

[phuki]

in progress...

edit: sorry, that's the best I could get




it says: "cannot create a temporary cache file" and "permission not granted"

I quickly searched on google but haven't found anything relevant yet

[phuki]

A little off topic but may I ask you: does your printer have a fan ejecting the air out of it? There are ventilation grids on both side but no fan behind them. Thus no air is blown, and that makes my printer very hot (especially when printing in colour). Plus the smell.

It seems weird to me and I wonder whether my printer is defective? thank you

[isa.k]

A little off topic but may I ask you: does your printer have a fan ejecting the air out of it? There are ventilation grids on both side but no fan behind them. Thus no air is blown, and that makes my printer very hot (especially when printing in colour). Plus the smell.

It seems weird to me and I wonder whether my printer is defective? thank you

LoL! Yeah, mine gives off a peculiar smell...

I haven't delved in depth with the how and why of it, as it is only a week old, if that. And half of that time, I was not able to use it.

But it did smell rather peculiar when it did its first print job (test print).

Again, I do not know if it is particularly only when colour jobs are being done, or when any print job is being done.

As for the fan, I dunno about that? How could I tell?

[phuki]

Good news

I finally got it working, in colour and everything!

Forget about the "lib..." files. The answer was right in front of me but I just didn't use the right command (or did I?). It's so simple, actually.
Just do the following: download the file to whatever location (let's say /home/USERNAME/ to make it simple) and extract it by right-clicking on the tar.gz, then "extract here".

Open a terminal, and browse into the extracted folder named cdroot :

cd /home/USERNAME/cdroot/

There's an autorun in it which we are going to run:

sudo ./autorun

and... that's it!!! A window will pop up and everything goes smoothly

Another method, which will also be used to install the other 2 files (smartpanel + psu), you don't need to browse into the folder, simply execute the install.sh:

sudo /home/USERNAME/cdroot/Linux/install.sh

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341621

It's as simple as that, but come to think of it, it's exactly the same way Tommcd explained in the first place But I still couln't do it even with the typo corrected (cdroot, not chroot). Anyway, thank you very much Tommcd

As for the fan, I'd be grateful if you could just tell me whether or not you can feel some air blown out from the printer at some point. Thank you!

[isa.k]

Thank you phuki for that great bit of research

I am still waiting for a one on one session with a great deal of knowledge in Ubuntu, in getting me to Install Jaunty alongside with Vista, and am now using Vista till that happens.

I just pressed the power button for a few seconds and let go, so it would print a test page.

I ran my hands around the printer's vent slots whilst it was printing, and I don't know if it was an illusion, or reality, but I think I may have felt an ever so soft breeze brush against my hand at one point...

But then again, I am quite serious, it could have just been my imagination as well?

Put it this way, if someone said, "Would you bet your life on the printer blowing out any air whilst it was printing?"

The answer quite simply would be, "No."

If there was any air being blown out, it was extremely subtle, that is for sure.

I hope that answered your query

[phuki]

Thank you very much for your precious help on this. I don't know anyone around me that owns this printer, so I couldn't ask. Now I know my printer is in good state.

I hope you'll be able to install these drivers properly and enjoy your shiny colourful printed documents. If ever you need help installing a dual boot vista/ubuntu, you can PM me.

Thanks again isa.k