Re: Samsung Laser Printers - propietary Page Description Language? (ML-1665)

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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I´m thinking of replacing my ages-old HP LaserJet 1100 (PCL4, PCL5, 16
> MB RAM) with a with a very affordable yet fast Samung (model ML-1665 -
> product info at
> http://ho.io/samsunglasers )
>
> Samsung provides propietary, binary-only drivers for Linux at this location
> http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201001/20100121132724343/UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.86.tar.gz
>
> However, they only mention Ubuntu, no word about Fedora.
>
> I´m not very happy to use binary-only drivers, because at some point
> they might choose to discontinue them, or those binary drivers might
> have dependencies that later cannot be fulfilled (say require an older
> glibc version, older version of CUPS than present in future linux
> version, etc etc).

I had very similar worries about a Samsung scx-4500w that I got a year
or two back - in fact it works fine in f14 and also did on f12, f11
and f10 and I detailed what I did at

http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting/Samsung_scx-4500W

The only proprietary file I used in the end was the .ppd file  the
rest including scanning I could get working using open source
including the scanner.

You may find that you can get yours working in an analogous way....

Hope this helps./

-- 
mike c
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