Samsung ML-1666 printer in Linux
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| Samsung ML-1666 |
You can either run their automated installer or install it manually.
I prefer manual installation because, automated installer install many unnecessary tools in my system.
1. locate the ML-1660 from the Unified driver PPD while adding printer:
/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-1660spl.ppd
2.Copy the filter, depending on your system (32bit or 64bit):
/cdroot/Linux/x86_64/at_root/usr/lib64/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl --> /usr/lib/cups/filter/
3. You may need to install libtiff and splix or may try to modify the ML-1660.ppd for splix support. But, be inform that, from splix website "Splix won't support old SPL(1) printers."
4 comments:
i cant paste the filter file... the paste option is disabled while going to the file syystem... please help me....
i cant paste the filter file.. the paste option is disable in the file system
you have to use $su to become root, then run the copy command.
Forget CUPS, I don't use it. I've never actually got a printer working that way. They all
failed. Or it always fails. I know localhost:163 and all that stuff, but I'm a fan of 'cat
THING.EXT > /dev/do_something', the good old Linux way.
This has taken me a couple months to figure out. There is very little usable information out
there, any many people with the same problem, so this is a 'Pay It Forward' kind of thing.
The same technique most likely works with many printers. Maybe I can save someone else the
same big headache.
ML-1660 magic:
You need 'rastertosamsungspl' and 'ML-1660spl.ppd' from Samsung's 'UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz'.
The magic is thus:
1. Convert whatever you want to print into PostScript (FILE.ps).
2. Type 'export PPD=/wherever/you/put/ML-1660spl.ppd' (the spl filter needs this to be set
or it will fail silently) ***MAGIC***
3. Type '/wherever/you/put/rastertosamsungspl 1 1 1 1 1 FILE.ps > FILE.spl' (all those ones
are mandatory arguments that the filter completely ignores)
4. Type 'cat FILE.spl > /dev/usblp0' (or whatever your system calls it). Printer wakes up,
yawns, thinks, and actually prints in full glory!
Simple, but arcane. I hope this pops up in google so others can get this working faster than
I did.
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