@Johann, thank you for that pointer. I had tried the official Samsung driver earlier which has the world's worst installer and on printed to half the page width.
Using the latest driver from bchemnet I found the following: * Using the Samsung Configurator meant no print jobs came out and I was constantly told about non-existent paper jams * Using system-config-printer with DNS-SD/LPD printed and also claimed paper jams via notification popups * Using system-config-printer with Jetdirect printed and there were no popups but the printer icon and successfully completed job icons all have explanation marks saying there were paper jams * I did some test prints including the multi-coloured text which doesn't come out with Samsung's PCL and was murky with Samsung's Windows SPL-C driver That leads to the following conclusions: * Samsung's printers do not do PCL emulation correctly * There are several open source SPL-C drivers but none of them work correctly * Samsung's current binary SPL-C driver does generate correct output * Samsung's engineers should be ashamed at the packaging and components of their driver * The bchemnet repackaging undoes most of the Samsung packaging and security issues * Use as little Samsung code as possible (eg only use the Configurator to access scanner functionality - not present in my printer) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to foo2zjs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898986 Title: Printing does not work on Samsung CLP-610ND Status in “foo2zjs” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “splix” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I added a Samsung CLP-610ND via the gui and it auto-picked a driver that doesn't work (foo2qpdl). The printer machinery hums but no paper comes out. Using cups I changed the driver to the enigmatically named "2.0.0 (en)" which is actually the splix driver and the native language of the printer. However no print jobs come out as this driver needs CMS files installed. SpliX Cannot open CMS file /usr/share/cups/profiles/samsung/CLP- 610cms (2) This need for CMS files is mandatory and mentioned in the INSTALL file for splix. All this is a mess - no driver as shipped with the system works as is. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: system-config-printer-common 1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 1 23:36:39 2011 Lpstat: device for CLP-610: dnssd://Samsung%20CLP-610%20(printer)._printer._tcp.local/ PackageArchitecture: all Papersize: letter PpdFiles: CLP-610: Samsung CLP-610 Foomatic/foo2qpdl (recommended) ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-13-generic root=UUID=cc8c9c7d-8fe1-4d60-984d-c5d2765f1766 ro pcie_aspm=force SourcePackage: system-config-printer UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/30/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp. dmi.bios.version: KGIBX10J.86A.5936.2011.0630.2250 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: DP55WG dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation dmi.board.version: AAE57269-404 dmi.chassis.type: 2 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrKGIBX10J.86A.5936.2011.0630.2250:bd06/30/2011:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnDP55WG:rvrAAE57269-404:cvn:ct2:cvr: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/898986/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
