HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

[sabmo]

Just wanted to say thanks to whoever maintains the Samsung unified debian packages.

I just bought the Samsung ML-2240 Series monochrome laser printer.

Installed the debian packages and then added the printer using the printer wizard and everything worked right out of the box.

Good show!

[metiu]

Hi I'm on 9.04 with a brand new SCX 4300.
I installed the Unified Linux Driver with the provided installer and everything worked fine out of the box.

However, I get vertical thin white lines all over the scanned pictures, particularly in dark areas. I tried scanning in Windows Vista and the lines there are almost invisible if I don't enlarge the picture a lot, so it seems to be a driver issue.

[tweedledee]

Hi I'm on 9.04 with a brand new SCX 4300.
I installed the Unified Linux Driver with the provided installer and everything worked fine out of the box.

However, I get vertical thin white lines all over the scanned pictures, particularly in dark areas. I tried scanning in Windows Vista and the lines there are almost invisible if I don't enlarge the picture a lot, so it seems to be a driver issue.

Which version of the driver did you install? If you used the one on the provided CD, it almost certainly is not the most current, so updating to a more recent driver may help if the driver is at fault.

[coady]

I just bought the Samsung ML-2240 Series monochrome laser printer.

Installed the debian packages and then added the printer using the printer wizard and everything worked right out of the box.

Hi,
I am running this printer under Hardy 8.04. It would not print initially, but by selecting a different foomatic driver than the recommended one (automatically setup by CUPS), it does work 'out of the box'.

I selected "Samsung MML-2250 Foomatic/gdi [en]" instead of the recommended driver and it works fine. Note I did not need to go through the steps of the HOWTO but just used the basic CUPS system.

I hope this is useful to others...

[AgenticState]

Hi tweedledee,

I'm trying to get the scanner part of an SCX-4200 to work on Kubuntu 9.04 (printing is fine with SPLIX).

I've added your repo and key and installed the samsungmfp-scanner package along with its dependencies. Running scanimage -L shows the scanner and xsane finds it too but when I try to scan from xsane it gives the error "Error during read: Error during device I/O". This happens both as a normal user and as root.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Dylan.

[Marcelo Fernández]

I have the same problem but with Samsung's official drivers, and I got it working temporarily removing the USB 2.0 (EHCI) module to make scan working.

To do this, type into a terminal: "sudo rmmod ehci_hcd" and after that, try to scan again.

[wstay]

Can someone please explain how to install the GPG key for the repository related to my Samsung printer?
I click on a link to download and installthe GPG key. But what I get is as follow:

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The problem is how I can get this to install on my Ubuntu system?

[wstay]

Guide to installing Samsung printers & the Unified Linux Driver:
..........
1. Download the driver from Samsung's website and save it to a folder that does not contain any spaces in the path. For this example I will use ~, but ~/Desktop or similar will also work.

2. Unpack the file, which will create a folder cdroot.

3. In a terminal, navigate to the cdroot folder and then

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

to ensure that all directories work correctly, frequently the ppd and/or cms directories (under Linux/noarch/at_opt/share) are incorrectly set, which can cause problems when trying to remove the cdroot folder.

4. Then, still in cdroot, execute:

sudo ./autorun

or

sudo Linux/install.sh

to start the graphical installer.

I got to this step and got an error message: root@wstay-desktop:/home/wstay/Desktop/SCX-4725F/UnifiedLinuxDriver/cdroot# ./autorun
Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported .
But the graphical Unified Linux Driver Installer does appear on screen.
Is it safe to continue with the install?

[wstay]

Originally Posted by tweedledee View Post
Guide to installing Samsung printers & the Unified Linux Driver:
..........
1. Download the driver from Samsung's website and save it to a folder that does not contain any spaces in the path. For this example I will use ~, but ~/Desktop or similar will also work.

2. Unpack the file, which will create a folder cdroot.

3. In a terminal, navigate to the cdroot folder and then
Code:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

to ensure that all directories work correctly, frequently the ppd and/or cms directories (under Linux/noarch/at_opt/share) are incorrectly set, which can cause problems when trying to remove the cdroot folder.

4. Then, still in cdroot, execute:
Code:

sudo ./autorun

or
Code:

sudo Linux/install.sh

to start the graphical installer.

Printer model: SAMSUNG MULTIFUNCTION SCX 4725F
Which driver I am using: Unified Linux Driver (ver.3.00.37)
How I installed the driver: Follow the steps you outline in IIc: Use the Samsung Unified Linux Driver repository and when I cannot find the samsungmfp-* packages corresponding to the Samsung Unified Linux Driver in Synaptic, I switch to using step III: Installing the Samsung Unified Linux Driver directly
How it is connected: USB
The specific problem: When I post the command: sudo Linux/install.sh or /autorun to start the graphical installer I got an error message - Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported .
My question is: Is it alright to continue with the install given this error message and the graphical Unified Linux Driver Installer does appear on screen?

On to another qiestion

.....but the main purpose is distribute of .debs. The .deb packages should work fine in any recent Debian-based distribution (see below). It should also be possible for use alien to install these packages as .rpm or other formats for Fedora, Suse, etc., but I have not attempted to do so. (You can access the .deb files directly to try this here.

the deb.files I download are just plain text documents and how do I use alien to install these packages as .rpm?

[tweedledee]

Printer model: SAMSUNG MULTIFUNCTION SCX 4725F
Which driver I am using: Unified Linux Driver (ver.3.00.37)
How I installed the driver: Follow the steps you outline in IIc: Use the Samsung Unified Linux Driver repository and when I cannot find the samsungmfp-* packages corresponding to the Samsung Unified Linux Driver in Synaptic, I switch to using step III: Installing the Samsung Unified Linux Driver directly

You should be able to see the packages in Synaptic if the repository was added correctly and the package listed refreshed. If the problem is the gpg key, you may have to right-click and "save as" before running apt-key as described in the first post. Are you getting any errors when trying to reload the package list in Synaptic? Try to solve whatever the problem is here first, before trying the Samsung installer. (And I have no idea what the error you are getting means or if it is a problem.)

the deb.files I download are just plain text documents and how do I use alien to install these packages as .rpm?

You should not need to use alien, since you seem to be running Ubuntu. If you download the packages directly because the repository doesn't work for your system, you can just use gdebi (as root, or alternatively dpkg -i on the command line) to install the .debs you downloaded. The only problem will be that you will have to install in a particular order so that dependencies are satisfied: first the -data package, then the -driver package, then whichever -configurator package you want, if you want it at all.