@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)

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