HOWTO: Configure the Samsung ML-1660 for CUPS

[teejaybee]

G'day,

I recently got a Samsung ML-1660 printer and while it worked fine with the unified linux driver provided by Samsung, I didn't really like how that driver did its business with regards to installing old static libraries and other stuff that I don't need and most certainly don't want going stale and causing problems down the track.

So I read up online on how to troubleshoot printer problems with CUPS and came to the following solution on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine:

1) Download the Samsung unified printer driver from their website (UnifiedLinuxDriver_*.tar.gz)
2) Extract /cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-1660spl.ppd to a temporary directory.
3) For 32 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
4) For 64 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
5) sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filters
6) sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filters/rastertosamsung*
7) sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filters/rastertosamsung*
8) Plug the printer in - Ubuntu should recognise it connected via USB and give it its own name
9) Add a new printer with cups via System -> Administration -> Printing. In the "Choose Driver" section select "Provide PPD file" and browse and select ML-1660spl.ppd that you extracted earlier to a tmp dir.
10) Print a test page, and away you go!

I hope this benefits someone.

Cheers.

[hibou107]

Hi, I'm a newbe in Ubuntu and also have a ML 1660 printer, can you explain more in your tutorial?

For exemple, in the folder filters there is 4 files with the name started by rastertosamsung
So do I need to repeat 4 times the commands:

sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filters/rastertosamsung

with each file?

G'day,

I recently got a Samsung ML-1660 printer and while it worked fine with the unified linux driver provided by Samsung, I didn't really like how that driver did its business with regards to installing old static libraries and other stuff that I don't need and most certainly don't want going stale and causing problems down the track.

So I read up online on how to troubleshoot printer problems with CUPS and came to the following solution on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine:

1) Download the Samsung unified printer driver from their website (UnifiedLinuxDriver_*.tar.gz)
2) Extract /cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-1660spl.ppd to a temporary directory.
3) For 32 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
4) For 64 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
5) sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filters
6) sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filters/rastertosamsung*
7) sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filters/rastertosamsung*
8) Plug the printer in - Ubuntu should recognise it connected via USB and give it its own name
9) Add a new printer with cups via System -> Administration -> Printing. In the "Choose Driver" section select "Provide PPD file" and browse and select ML-1660spl.ppd that you extracted earlier to a tmp dir.
10) Print a test page, and away you go!

I hope this benefits someone.

Cheers.

[hibou107]

OK, I've just tried, just need to select the right .ppd file from source and evrything's perfect!

[miquelinho87]

Goodevening. I'm sorry for my not perfect english, but I hope that you will understand. I've red about the installation of the samsung ml-1660, and I tried to install it, but I could not. After 1 hour, and several attempts, I found the problem: at the point number 5) of the guide, the command isn't "sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filters", but "sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filter", without the final s in the word "filter".

These are the correct passages:
1) Download the Samsung unified printer driver from their website (UnifiedLinuxDriver_*.tar.gz)
2) Extract /cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-1660spl.ppd to a temporary directory (That could be the Desktop).
3) For 32 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
4) For 64 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
5) sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filter
6) sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung*
7) sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung*
8) Plug the printer in - Ubuntu should recognise it connected via USB and give it its own name
9) Add a new printer with cups via System -> Administration -> Printing. In the "Choose Driver" section select "Provide PPD file" and browse and select ML-1660spl.ppd that you extracted earlier to a tmp dir.
10) Print a test page, and away you go!

However I want to thank teejaybee for the precious guide.

[pianomans]

yes, it works... Thanks. I have ubuntu 10.10, and without 's' on 'filter'.

[vasilbelarus]

Is double-sided printing work fine?

[christi99k]

i can't print two sided. any suggestion pls.

[henshu70]

Thanks a lot teejaybee for posting the guide and thanks also miquelinho87 for your corrections. My Samsung ML-1660 printer is now finally working. However, without duplex options. Please, if anybody knows how to enable this, I would very much appreciate your help (and as one can see from the posts some other folks too). Although I suspect this is probably the driver feature which is not included.

Thanks

Goodevening. I'm sorry for my not perfect english, but I hope that you will understand. I've red about the installation of the samsung ml-1660, and I tried to install it, but I could not. After 1 hour, and several attempts, I found the problem: at the point number 5) of the guide, the command isn't "sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filters", but "sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filter", without the final s in the word "filter".

These are the correct passages:
1) Download the Samsung unified printer driver from their website (UnifiedLinuxDriver_*.tar.gz)
2) Extract /cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-1660spl.ppd to a temporary directory (That could be the Desktop).
3) For 32 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
4) For 64 bit: extract /cdroot/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertosamsung* to a tmp dir
5) sudo cp tmpdir/rastertosamsung* /usr/lib/cups/filter
6) sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung*
7) sudo chown root:root /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsung*
8) Plug the printer in - Ubuntu should recognise it connected via USB and give it its own name
9) Add a new printer with cups via System -> Administration -> Printing. In the "Choose Driver" section select "Provide PPD file" and browse and select ML-1660spl.ppd that you extracted earlier to a tmp dir.
10) Print a test page, and away you go!

However I want to thank teejaybee for the precious guide.

[Phil1581]

Thanks, but I had to add under 'Printer Properties','Job Options' 'Tray' 'automatic', otherwise no paper loaded.
Also I found that letting Ubuntu automatically find the driver also required the above addition.

[Corsari]

I've tested the steps by my own 'cause I have one of those printers network shared by a windoz pc

If you connect to it and provide the ppd only, a warning pops about the raster filters

So I removed the first test (the printer installs), I've added the rastertosamsung* filters in /usr/lib/cups/filter/ and I've repeated the add printer from samba network: it works.

Now I'm able to print from ubuntu to a windoz pc sharing on ml-1660 printer.

Thank you for this guide.