The driver
Since Linux doesn't really use a printer: "driver" you are going to have to be more specific. What Linux uses is a RIP (Raster Image Processor). If you are using just GhostScript then the 'driver' would be a GhostScript device or a file for the IJS system. Or, you could be using GimpPrint with GhostScript. These would be for use with the LPRng or GNUlpr print spooler systems. If you are using CUPS, you would need a CUPS driver for the CUPS RIP or if using the Foo-Matic RIP with CUPS you would need a Foo-Matic PPD file.
on the samsung page for the cpl-500 is no help. Suse9 YaST gives the following errors when trtying to load the ppd file:The PPD parser failed to parse your PPD file. Was it CUPS or KDE that generated these errors. It was mentioned that there was a problem with this in KDE-3.2 BRANCH that has now been fixed. Exactly what version of KDE are you using?
./CLP-500splc.ppd: FAIL **FAIL** REQUIRED DefaultImageableArea REF: Page 102, section 5.15. **FAIL** REQUIRED PageRegion REF: Page 100, section 5.14. **FAIL** BAD Product - not "(string)". REF: Page 62, section 5.3. WARN PCFileName longer than 8.3 in violation of PPD spec. REF: Pages 61-62, section 5.3.
Can anybody explain or point me at some help.
This is the ppd file - " Product " looks like a string to me assuming the others are ok. The readme in the distro says anything after suse6 should be ok.
Another issue is that CUPS and Foo-Matic will not work with the stock PPD file. They must have additional stuff in them. The stock PPD only works with (currently dead) GNUlpr.
<SNIP>
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 ppmtosplc"
<SNIP>
Since this PPD file -- which looks OK to me -- has the line in it for the CUPS driver, I am presuming that you have a CUPS driver that you obtained from Samsung. So, I am going to guess that you are using CUPS and that it was CUPS that provided the above error messages about not liking the PPD file. You need to determine that for sure. But, if these are CUPS generated error messages, this is a CUPS issue and you would probably get more help on the CUPS list <cups@xxxxxxxxxx>.
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