Samsung CLP-620ND

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Despite claims (on the box) that this colour laser printer supports all the
main operating systems, Linux support is poor. Using just the driver, all
print is at full saturation. The additional 'Smart-panel' program that
should
enable corrections refuses to recognise that a legitimate port has been
selected. This has been found on several distro installations. Running it
from a terminal resulted in a 'segfault' error being returned.

I now have to 'print' to pdf files and then from a virtual Windows XP, to
the same printer with complete control.

Samsung, are no practical help. They simply trot out the mantra about
installing the driver properly. Very disappointing as this is a nicely built
machine.
 
Pinnerite said:
Despite claims (on the box) that this colour laser printer supports all the
main operating systems, Linux support is poor. Using just the driver, all
print is at full saturation. The additional 'Smart-panel' program that
should
enable corrections refuses to recognise that a legitimate port has been
selected. This has been found on several distro installations. Running it
from a terminal resulted in a 'segfault' error being returned.

I now have to 'print' to pdf files and then from a virtual Windows XP, to
the same printer with complete control.

Samsung, are no practical help. They simply trot out the mantra about
installing the driver properly. Very disappointing as this is a nicely built
machine.
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Probably the driver is programmed by a 3rd party, and also copyrighted
to that party. Canon does the same thing, as did ALPS, so I imagine it
is the norm for the Asian companies.

On the other hand, looking around, I see that on linux Mint at least,
the utilities do seem to work, so they may be broken only on some
systems:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=97176

There is also an open-source driver for the QPDL protocol used:
http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/

Cheers,
 
Gernot said:
Probably the driver is programmed by a 3rd party, and also copyrighted
to that party. Canon does the same thing, as did ALPS, so I imagine it
is the norm for the Asian companies.

On the other hand, looking around, I see that on linux Mint at least,
the utilities do seem to work, so they may be broken only on some
systems:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=97176

There is also an open-source driver for the QPDL protocol used:
http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/

Cheers,
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As I wrote the driver is OK but Smartpanel is screwed.
I actually use the open-source driver.

Thanks for your input.
 
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