Re: Printing to a Samsung ML-4500


Subject: Re: Printing to a Samsung ML-4500
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 01:29:17 AKDT


Damien,

Found some step-by-step, if that helps.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/samsung-list/2001q2/000079.html

Jim Gribbin

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 18:09, damien hull wrote:
>
> I just switched my file/print server over to Slack 8.1 only to find out that
> I can no longer print. I have a Samsung ML-4500 printer, which is not a
> postscript printer. It is a gdi printer. I'm not really sure what that means
> but there is a driver for it.
>
> My server was running Red Hat 7.2 and I was able to use my Samsung printer.
> Red Hat and most of the other main stream distributions have patched
> versions of Ghostscript.
>
> To make a long story short I tried to get the latest source code of
> ghostscript and patch it my self. That didn't work. I also found the
> documentation on Linux printing and ghostscript not very informative. It's
> sort of like here is ghostscript and here's what it supports. That's about
> it. I found little to no info on the Samsung printer and Linux. Which is
> strange because the printer has a sticker on it with a Linux Penguin.
>
> If anybody knows anything about this pleas send me some info. I won't be
> able to print until I get this working.
>
> THOUGHT...
> I think open source is a good thing but projects with little documentation
> aren't helping anyone.
>
> Damien Hull
> www.digitaloverload.net
>
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