Does anybody have any experience installing and running binary printer drivers for Samsung, particularly their color lasers, which appear to be the cheapest and lightest for this device class?
I saw a listing (Villman) for the Samsung CLP 315 Color Laser. It's cheap at 8,995 and weighs only 11kg, just slightly heavier than my 1000VA UPS! Among its other features are official Linux drivers. So I went to the Samsung download center to check out the drivers: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/download/supportDownMain.do Since I don't own a Samsung printer (yet), I merely unpacked the tar.gz to see what it contains. The installation method appears to make use of a shell installer rather than the usual deb or rpm packages but there appears to be support for popular distros, including Ubuntu and Slackware, and the AMD 64 platform. [85] tar xf 20080404140935546_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz [86] ls -1 cdroot/Linux/ Installer.htm OEM.ini check_installation.sh i386 install.sh noarch uninstall.sh x86_64 [87] grep -E 'Ubuntu|Slackware' cdroot/Linux/install.sh elif ( echo $ISSUE | grep -q "Ubuntu 5.10" ); then elif ( echo $ISSUE | grep -q "Ubuntu" ); then if ( echo $SLACKWARE_VERSION | grep -q "Slackware 8.1" ); then _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
