Samsung clp510 not working

Thanks for the bug report. Does this problem still exist in Dapper or Edgy?

Your printer is not very well supported. The only way to get it working are closed-source drivers provided on Samsung's web site (or perhaps also included on the printer's driver CDs). This driver cannot be included in most distros due to copyright reasons. It also needs often special tricks to really work with the desired distribution. See

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-CLP-510

I am currently working with standardization of printer driver interfaces in LSB 3.2 and automatic driver download from the internet. This should make live easier in such situations. See

http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington
http://www.freestandards.org/wordpress/?p=224
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/printerdriverautodownload

-----Original Message-----
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Till Kamppeter
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:50 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 44407] Re: Samsung clp510 not working

Your printer is not very well supported. The only way to get it working
are closed-source drivers provided on Samsung's web site (or perhaps
also included on the printer's driver CDs). This driver cannot be
included in most distros due to copyright reasons. It also needs often
special tricks to really work with the desired distribution. See

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Samsung-CLP-510

I am currently working with standardization of printer driver interfaces
in LSB 3.2 and automatic driver download from the internet. This should
make live easier in such situations. See

http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/SummitLexington
http://www.freestandards.org/wordpress/?p=224
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/printerdriverautodow
nload

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Samsung clp510 not working
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44407
Driver from samsung site does not work for me. After searching online,
this driver works for sum, but not for tohers. Printer was sold a
STAPLES office supply, and should be fairly common. Really needs to be
supported. Thanks.

A new Splix version with support for Samsung's color laser printers was released recently:

http://splix.ap2c.org/

I don't know ehether there are already Debian packages (check Debian unstable) of it. Can you compile it from source if needed and test whether it makes your printer working? The author of the driver needs test results from users.

linuxprinting.org is updated now to take into account the new color laser printer support of the SpliX driver.

I have packaged SpliX now. Please try this package:

http://www.freestandards.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/splix/binary/splix_1.0.1+beta2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

Source package files are here:

http://www.freestandards.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/splix/

If you have installed the SliX binary package linked in the previous post for testing, please uninstall it and install this one:

http://www.freestandards.org/~till/tmp/ubuntu/feisty/splix/binary/splix_1.0.1~beta2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

I have corrected the version number notation (splix_1.0.1+beta2 -> splix_1.0.1~beta2) to make an update to the final 1.0.1 release of SpliX installing smoothly.

The source files are also replaced as I have done some packaging policy fixes.

Till, when you say this bug is Fix Released, does that mean that it's in the Ubuntu repositories?

The upload process is initiated. In some hours the package should appear (in universe).