Samsung SCX-4200 printer

[Peter C. Lai]

On 2009-01-07 11:03:57PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 05:06:32PM -0500, Peter C. Lai wrote:
> > What language does this printer use? I am a big fan of the minimalistic
> > BSD LPD/R, so I usually just whip up an output filter that cats everything
> > (since just about every app natively prints as postscript these days 
> > [besides gimp-app I guess]) to ghostscript. Works for basically any printer
> > with PCL or PS support (actually, with some of the the elcheapo PS 
> > imitations out there, usually PCL5/XL works better). To me, CUPS/Foomatic 
> > comes with some fancy PPDs and filters, but I think a lot of that is 
> > bloated since it does similar things under the hood but wrapped in more
> > layers of magic...
> > 
> > On 2009-01-06 04:46:40PM -0500, SDH Support wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a way to install the SCX-4200 printer on a FreeBSD box ?
> > > 
> > > I would recommend googling this printer and determining its support on linux
> > > first and then perhaps following the large amount of documentation with
> > > installing CUPS for freebsd. I've gotten many different printers working on
> > > my own.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > Kevin K.
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> > Peter C. Lai                 | Bard College at Simon's Rock
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> 
> Many thanks for all your comments and hints.
> 
> Briefly for your information: The printer was bought by a person
> who was a Linux user from the very beginning. He had no time to install
> it though. In the mean time he has become a FreeBSD user and is working
> all-day on a FreeBSD laptop (as a general practitioner, perhaps the
> only one on earth). He's still short of time. A year ago or so I
> tried to install the printer on his desktop machine. But I could not
> find any SCX-4200 reference on openprinting.org. This time I reinstalled
> all CUPS components on a 7.0-RELEASE, and finally looked for your help.
> 
> Well, I've started with the first advice, found UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz,
> installed manually scx4200.ppd and rastertosamsungspl. I tried all
> possible file locations for rastertosamsungspl. But CUPS keeps saying
> that it cannot find rastertosamsungspl. It seems to me that CUPS
> would be happy with these two files.
> 
> 'spl' seems to stand for Samsung Printer Language.
> 

well, if you're on cups, the splix driver should come with that.

"find / -name rastertosamsungspl" would be my best guess, then
you have to figure out where it really is supposed to live.

If you're on plain ghostscript try using the 'gdi' output device

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Peter C. Lai                 | Bard College at Simon's Rock
Systems Administrator        | 84 Alford Rd.
Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA
peter AT simons-rock.edu     | (413) 528-7428
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