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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Ended up buying Brother HL-3140CW [WAS: Samsung Xpress C430W with Gentoo]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:11:41
Message-Id: 2936488.t6QD3Wg4MH@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Samsung Xpress C430W with Gentoo by Mick
1 On Monday 05 Jun 2017 13:18:29 Mick wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > I'm about to buy a new printer but before I jump in with both feet, do you
5 > have any experience of getting the above laser printer to work with Gentoo?
6 >
7 > Samsung provide a Unified Linux Driver here:
8 >
9 > http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201507/20150708141746407/ULD_v1
10 > .00.35.tar.gz
11 >
12 > and there is also the Samsung Printer Language driver in portage:
13 >
14 > $ eix -l splix
15 > * net-print/splix
16 > Available versions:
17 > 2.0.0_p20111206 [+jbig]
18 > ~ 2.0.0_p20130826 [+jbig]
19 > Homepage: http://splix.sourceforge.net/
20 > Description: A set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung
21 > Printer Language) printers
22 >
23 > but I don't know if the C430W will work with the splix driver - it is not
24 > listed here:
25 >
26 > http://splix.sourceforge.net/
27
28
29 At the end I decided to buy a brother laser printer. I used the brother-
30 overlay and installed net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin, which works fine so far.
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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