Oh boy. The story so far for both the CLP-610 and CLP-620. (I gave the 610 to a friend and upgraded to the 620 which is substantially the same printer with refreshed hardware).
None of the open source drivers that generate SPLC work (foo2qpdl, splix) - ie even produce a page containing anything other than error messages. It is also unclear if splix needs CMS files. The Samsung official binary driver has a nightmare installation littering the system with crap and being uninstallable, and prints the page in half the width. (The Samsung Windows driver also crashes a lot.) The pxlcolor driver does work for most text and images. Windows also detects the printers as PCL printers. The "firmware" issue for the 610 you linked to is also present in the 620. The test PDF is http://bugs.ghostscript.com/attachment.cgi?id=5917 and my resulting output is attached. Some of the letters ended up completely omitted. I printed the PDF from Windows and it printed correctly although the larger coloured letters were cross hatched. On both Windows and Linux I used Google Chrome's builtin PDF support to do the printing since the code should be identical. I also tried evince on Linux which gave the same output as Chrome. I'm not convinced the issue really is a firmware bug, but probably some dark corner of the PCL spec being interpreted differently. ** Attachment added: "pxlcolor output for test pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/898986/+attachment/2629984/+files/clp620test.jpg -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898986 Title: CMS files not installed for Samsung To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/898986/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
