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On Monday 05 Jun 2017 13:18:29 Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I'm about to buy a new printer but before I jump in with both feet, do you |
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> have any experience of getting the above laser printer to work with Gentoo? |
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> Samsung provide a Unified Linux Driver here: |
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> http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/DR/201507/20150708141746407/ULD_v1 |
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> .00.35.tar.gz |
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> and there is also the Samsung Printer Language driver in portage: |
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> $ eix -l splix |
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> * net-print/splix |
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> Available versions: |
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> 2.0.0_p20111206 [+jbig] |
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> ~ 2.0.0_p20130826 [+jbig] |
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> Homepage: http://splix.sourceforge.net/ |
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> Description: A set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung |
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> Printer Language) printers |
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> but I don't know if the C430W will work with the splix driver - it is not |
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> listed here: |
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> http://splix.sourceforge.net/ |
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At the end I decided to buy a brother laser printer. I used the brother- |
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overlay and installed net-print/brother-hl3140cw-bin, which works fine so far. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |