HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver

[bionade]

Hi, really really thank you for this post. Problem solved.

Problem was:
Scanning with Samsung SCX-4500w using WiFi connection while printing worked just fine.

Running Ubuntu 11.10, 32bit (but had the same problem since... let me think... 10.04 (?)).
Now, after replacing the old netdiscovery with the new one, everything is just fine.

netdiscovery (new) --all:

# Network printers discovery utility
# Legend: ip: address slp: detected,ipp,lpr,raw_tcp snmp: detected,devtype,description
ip: 192.168.178.21  slp: 0,0,0,0 snmp: 0,0,0 dsc: "Samsung SCX-4500W [SEC0015996143D9]"
# Total 1 printers found, 5s elapsed

netdiscovery (new) --all --scanner:

# Network printers discovery utility
# Legend: ip: address slp: detected,ipp,lpr,raw_tcp snmp: detected,devtype,description
ip: 192.168.178.21  slp: 0,0,0,0 snmp: 0,0,0 dsc: "Samsung SCX-4500W"
a8 00 43 10 53 61 6d 73 75 6e 67 20 53 61 6d 73
75 6e 67 20 53 43 58 2d 34 35 30 30 57 20 53 65
72 69 65 73 1d 33 04 2b 00 00 27 d8 00 00 36 d8
00 01 51 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 36 d8 00 00 36 d8
01 00 05 05 00 00
# Total 1 scanners found, 5s elapsed

netdiscovery (old, not working) --all:

netdiscovery.old: relocation error:  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2: symbol strcmp, version GLIBC_2.0  not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
netdiscovery.old: relocation error:  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2: symbol strcmp, version GLIBC_2.0  not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
# Network printers discovery utility
# Legend: ip: address slp: detected,ipp,lpr,raw_tcp snmp: detected,devtype,description
ip: 192.168.178.21  slp: 0,0,0,0 snmp: 0,0,0 dsc: " [SEC0015996143D9]"
# Total 1 printers found, 5s elapsed

netdiscovery (old, not working) --all --scanners:

netdiscovery.old: relocation error:  /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnss_files.so.2: symbol strcmp, version GLIBC_2.0  not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

Thanks again, finally I can scan using WiFi.

[Metal Hed]

Super stoked! I finally got my parents samsung scx-4826fn to scan with 11.04! I think it was tweedledee useful tips that helped me out so kudos!

[Artorius89]

Thank you very much indeed, vyvee!

[_karo]

I bought a Samsung ML-1675 laser printer and got it working on Ubuntu 11.04. I installed the Samsung Unified drivers following the instructions, but the printer worked even before I installed them...? Ubuntu just autodetected it and it works. But I'd like to use the manual duplex function of the printer and cannot get it to work. When I try to change the 'Sides' option in Ubuntu's built-in printer properties app (in 'Job options') to two-sided, it just reverts right back to one-sided when I click apply. The printer shows up in the Samsung Unified Driver Configurator app also, but when I try to change the driver options there it says nothing about one-sided or two-sided printing. I'm using the ML-1670 Series driver, tried to change it to ML-1710 Series with no luck.

What am I doing wrong? Will I ever be able to print two-sided documents from Ubuntu?

[GarthPS]

Hi all,
Thanks to tweedledee!
I just successfully installed my brand new samsung ml-1860 that I just received (after one or two hours of fight with the official samsung's bunch of **** driver ).
So thanks a lot for your work man!
I will post this howto in french for french users.
Thanks again!
++

[tweedledee]

What am I doing wrong? Will I ever be able to print two-sided documents from Ubuntu?

Not sure what's going on with the default driver. The Samsung ppd files for many ML printers do not seem to allow for duplexing, auto or manual. In theory you could probably find/make a modified ppd that would work, or try various ML- printers until one works and has the right options. Alternatively, you could try creating a generic postscript printer and add the duplexer option - not sure if that will work the way you need it to or not.

[huntkey]

Thank you very much vyvee. You saved my day

[GarthPS]

I am have issue printing png file..
cups report
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps failed"
I tried this

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0.46.0 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3

but it did not work..
I had to pinrt my png in pdf and then I was able to print it.
thx

[nurchi]

Hello everyone.

Sorry if this has been posted, I didn't read all the 86 pages, but here is what I did and it worked with my Samsung SCX-4828FN.

First of all, I would like to thank tweedledee (post #1) for great help.

It worked initially, but the problem was that we have a USB attached machine and an identical one in a different office that is connected to the same network.
Now, while the printer worked flawlessly, scanning utilitiy (simple scan) would take a second to detect the scanner(s) and by default would select the network scanner.
This was not the desireable behaviour, since people that use this computer do not know enough to switch to the USB attached one.

So I installed the Samsung Unified Driver, latest version I downloaded is 3.00.65:07
Then, unblacklist usblp as described above, but for completeness, I'll repeat (if you hate vi, use edit, nano, or anything you like):
sudo vi /etc/modprobe/blacklist-cups-usblp.conf

Put a '#' before blacklist usblp. It should look like:
#blacklist usblp

You may also remove the line altogether (but you should not do that).

Now comes the best part:
sudo modprobe usblp

You are done.
Run your favourite scanning program and scan...

Hope this helped someone.

[tweedledee]

I am have issue printing png file..
cups report
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/cpdftocps failed"

Does this happen with all versions of the driver (3.00.90, 3.00.65, and legacy?) or just one?