Sumsung CLX-3185FW: success and failure

[fabzzap]

I tried to install the USB printer/scanner Samsung CLX-3185FW on my 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10 system.

The printer was easy: the Foomatic printer driver for the CLX-3175 works.

The scanner was less straightforward. The drivers downoaded from Samsung's official site have all sort of problems with 32- and 64-bit libraries, and they copy files all over the place. Browsing the forums, someone was reporting success with other models and the Sane backend xerox_mfp. Actually, /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf already contained the lines

#Samsung CLX-3170fn & CLX-3175FW
usb 0x04e8 0x342a

So, following the forums' advice, I modified /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf by adding

#Samsung CLX-3185FW
usb 0x04e8 0x343d

and /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules by adding

# Samsung CLX-3185FW
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="343d", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

And yet, no success: sane-find-scanner could see the scanner but scanimage -L or simple-scan couldn't.

Then, launching the command

SANE_DEBUG_XEROX_MFP=1 scanimage -L

the output was more descriptive

[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of xerox_mfp to 1.
[xerox_mfp] dev_open: sanei_usb_open(libusb:001:003): Access to resource has been denied

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

(note that lsusb listed the device as
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:343d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
).

The workaround is to launch scanimage -L and simple-scan with sudo: in that case, the scanner works. But is there a way to let normal users, or even the user controlling the console at that time, use the scanner?

[fabzzap]

For some reasons, there was no group "scanner" in the system.

System->Administration->Users and groups->Manage groups, I added a group named "scanner" and added my account to it, then logged out and in again.

[kem]

I just installed CLX-3185 on Maverick and everything went smooth except the final step. In particular, I followed install guide ...
1) I installed all required applications (xsane, ghostscript)
2) started install script in terminal as root (using sudo)
3) Next - Next -Next

The installation wizard crashed in the very last step and even shut down the Ubuntu. However, after restart everything worked very well including scanner. Maybe this description will help to somebody.

Cheers

[kubug]

I recently installed this printer for my parents on Ubuntu 10.10.

Samsung made it a pretty easy install. Download the drivers and utilities here:

http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consume...il&tab=support

And follow this guide step-by-step (it's easy and detailed):

http://skp.samsungcsportal.com/integ..._en&seq=297862

[kubug]

Sorry fabzzap,

I didn't notice the top part of your comment when you mention that you DID try to use the drivers from Samsung. Sorry you had trouble. My parents Ubuntu was 32 bit, so maybe that's why I had no issues.

[kem]

My parents Ubuntu was 32 bit, so maybe that's why I had no issues.

I installed it on 64 bit machine. Seems to be working as well.

[fabzzap]

After upgrade to 11.04, things stopped working. After a little head-banging, I found out (by reading the last lines of the file /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules) that udev uses the command /bin/setfacl to grant access to the device, but it was not installed!

sudo apt-get install acl

solved

[yamushk]

Once I installed the driver - I lost the wireless internet connection. I couldn't get the wireless connection to the printer work, but the wireless connection to the internet (from the computer) didn't work either.
Only solution was to uninstall driver. Did anyone experience this problem as well?
Miriam

[DrMark666]

Ubuntu 11.10 + CLX-3185:

Unified driver from Samsung installed, but no go for scanner. I had a little fun finding the printer initially, but it found it itself after a while.

Edit xerox_mfp.conf, add the Samsung lines:
#Samsung CLX-3185
usb 0x04e8 0x343d

Added myself to scanner group, and all was well.

Unity - I have yet to find the GUI user/group editor in this mess, and it didn't appear after a gnome install, so I did the group addition by
usermod -a -G scanner mark
from a terminal (as root, again)

[Antaeus50]

I have a Samsung CLX-3185. I have a printing problem. Some characters print as ,,, or "
So on my prints I see text like: Wr"te all "ords you ,know. In stead of: Write all words you know.
Who knows how to fix this.
I'm not a linux specialist, so please tell me step for step what to do.