HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

[hdel]

How about clx-2160? After upgrading to 11.10 I had to do all the things I did last year. Printer works but scanner is not recognized by the software (Xsane, simple-scan). I tried Samsung but they are not knowledgeable in Linux. I did what actitudes said in message #813 but nothing happened. Out of desperation I used #Samsung CLX-3185FW
usb 0x04e8 0x343d for clx-2160. Is this correct if not where can I find the correct one.

Hello,
A way to explore, see my #803, was ethernet scanner problem but...
I spend several days for software hardware malfunction.

[milandjupovac]

After upgrade to 11.10 version of Ubuntu my scanner on samsung SCX-4521F doesn't work. I have used gscan2pdf program for scnnning of documents in pdf format and now shows message ''No device found''. Also I can not use printer.

Please help.

[dek007]

Same problem. After upgrade to 11.10 version of Xubuntu scanner on Samsung SCX-4100 doesn't work. Simple Scan shows message ''No device found''. Printer work fine at same time.
P.S. Sorry for my english.

[Artorius89]

After upgrade to 11.10 version of Ubuntu my scanner on samsung SCX-4521F doesn't work. I have used gscan2pdf program for scnnning of documents in pdf format and now shows message ''No device found''. Also I can not use printer.

Please help.

I have a similar problem with this same device. My Samsung SCX-4521F multifunction printer was working perfectly under Ubuntu and Lubuntu 11.04, but now, after upgrading (on both machines) to Lubuntu 11.10, the scanner doesn't work anymore: Simple Scan and gscan2pdf report "No device found". (The printer, on the other hand, didn't stop working).
I have followed the troubleshooting on tweedledee's website, but none of the suggestions helped.
The sane-find-scanner command seems to recognize the device, as it reports:

  # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the
  # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your
  # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer.

  # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that
  # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung], product=0x3419 [SCX-4x21 Series]) at libusb:002:002
found USB scanner (vendor=0x0402, product=0x5602) at libusb:001:004
  # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by
  # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage.

  # Not checking for parallel port scanners.

  # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports
  # can't be detected by this program.

  # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you
  # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as
  # necessary.

I have no clue why the upgrade should have broken what was working perfectly...
I hope somebody can help.

[kazeevn]

Hello. I've run into the problem with SCX-3200 myself and that's how it has just been solved:
I've manually added my device to the list of supported:

echo "usb 0x04e8 0x3441" >> /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

After that it worked. Here you can find additional info: http://www.sane-project.org/man/sane-xerox_mfp.5.html.

P. S.
Lots of thanks to tweedledee for packaging all the stuff.

[yahs]

Just for information regarding Ubuntu 11.10.
I have spent some time testing my Samsung scx-4500w wireless mfp with ubuntu 11.10
I always do a clean install rather than update and a clean install after each test.
Both Unified Driver driver packages (3.00.65 and 3.00.90) downloaded from samsung, installed and worked perfectly - scanning and printing as normal.
Then enabled the repository and installed necessary drivers - again both printing and scanning work as normal.
I can scan from libreoffice, picasa, simple scan and xsane.

[okkadiroglu]

Hi,

I did it! Thanks all for the help.

I installed,

samsungmfp-data, samsungmf--configurator-data, samsungmfdriver, samsungmfp-scanner from http://ww.bchemnet.com/suldr debian extra.

Also, my user is in the lp and saned groups. After starting the CLX-2160, responce to the lsusb is:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 04e8:3425 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

and for

sane-find-scanner

I got:

found USB scanner (vendor=0x0ac8, product=0x303b) at libusb:002:003
found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x3425 [CLX-216x Series]) at libusb:001:007

Inserting vendor and product numbers for CLX-2160 listed above into

/ect/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

I was able to scan.

Many thanks for all those helpers.

Bast Regards

[Artorius89]

I've manually added my device to the list of supported:

echo "usb 0x04e8 0x3441" >> /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately this didn't work, in my case, as Simple Scan, scanimage -L and gscan2pdf still report finding no device.
Also, a clean install instead of an upgrade makes no difference in my case, as I have tried with both. (And I am part of the mentioned lp, lpadmin, saned and scanner groups).
I hope somebody has a clue. It had been working fine before the upgrade.

[hdel]

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Also, a clean install instead of an upgrade makes no difference in my case, as I have tried with both. (And I am part of the mentioned lp, lpadmin, saned and scanner groups).

What happen if you use a LiveCD? If you can't scan with, I suggest you initialize your Samsung product completly and configure for your need.

[milandjupovac]

Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately this didn't work, in my case, as Simple Scan, scanimage -L and gscan2pdf still report finding no device.
Also, a clean install instead of an upgrade makes no difference in my case, as I have tried with both. (And I am part of the mentioned lp, lpadmin, saned and scanner groups).
I hope somebody has a clue. It had been working fine before the upgrade.

I have done all this and still there is not chance to run scanner on my Samsung SCX-4521F, printer now works fine.

Does anybody has other recommendation?