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    Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    Hey all,

    I'm posting his as Xubuntu, bit I would assume this works on any variant. Yesterday (Thursday Jan 19 2012) I bought a Samsung ML-2955DW Wireless Laser Printer (Black & White).

    The software CD includes drivers for "various Linux OSes" But after trying this setup a few times, I stopped. It is quite difficult to get the install GUI to work and when I got it to work, it caused the computer to reboot in the middle of the install. Useless.

    Going back to the Ubuntu printer setup, that comes with Xubuntu, I just kept trying Samsung drivers that I thought might work. Well one did. The Samsung ML-3050, 2.0.0 driver works great. Hope this information helps someone out there

    Peace

    Vince
    Friday Jan 20 2012

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    Thank You! That solved my problems with this printer!
    rt
    cheap hardware....LOTS of it

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    Quote Originally Posted by rtalcott View Post
    Thank You! That solved my problems with this printer!
    rt
    Glad to help..

    Peace

    Vince

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    the ones that come with printer are apparently not good. not sure what theier testing os is and why they include crappy drivers. additionally i don't udnerstand their policy on not using the provided fixes.
    anyway there is a PPA for them:
    http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/
    or here:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341621

    works great on Ubuntu as well as Debian.
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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    Due to the fact that the ML-3050 doesn't offer duplex printing, which the ML-2955DW does, this feature is not available. I tried out a couple of other drivers, but the ML-3050 driver is the only one I can print with, so thank you for that!

    Any ideas how to use the duplex function?

    EDIT: Use the Samsung ML-3051ND, 2.0.0 driver. Works perfect so far!
    Last edited by beatngu13; October 4th, 2012 at 08:29 PM.

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    This works for me!

    Link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...41621&page=102

    Code:
    sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
    
    wget -O - http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suldr.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    
    sudo apt-get update
    
    sudo apt-get install  samsungmfp-driver  samsungmfp-configurator-qt4
    
    /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/Configurator&

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    Thanks a lot, I kept getting garbage with the ML-2950 driver, the ML-3051ND-en, 2.0.0 driver seems to be working a lot better.

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    Re: Drivers for Samsung ML-2955DW printer (B&W)

    The driver for Samsung 3010 version 2.0.0 worked fine for me too. I did not try the other ones. So, if this happens to stop working, then I will try the other ones.

    Thanks to the original poster.

    Gopal

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