Installing Samsung CLX-2160 color laser printer on USB using CUPS

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Polytropon wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>> I don't know that I can add anything to the cups discussion here, but I
>> understand you'd rather use lpr anyway. You are aware that the printer
>> will only speak splix the samsung universal driver language? So any
>> config would have to be based on that.
>
> The foo2qpdl-wrapper program seems to support that fine.
>
>
>
>> Once you have that working maybe you can manually add the printer in
>> cups using lpd.
>
> Maybe? For sure! It's quite easy to do it (make entry in
> /etc/printcap, create spool directories, write printer
> filter one-liner "foo2qpdl-wrapper -p 2 -c" which is the
> essential part). I just hope printing will be possible
> from applications (Opera, OpenOffice and Gimp are the
> primary candidates) afterwards.

Opera, I have not tried.  OpenOffice and LibreOffice print through lpd 
fine.  Printing through Gutenprint in Gimp also works without CUPS. 
Something has a probably-unnecessary dependency on cups-client, so it's 
installed here, but none of the rest of CUPS.

PS: using the non-resetting unlpt0 device is often helpful.  A network 
connection is still better.