Buy Printer? (Samsung CLP-325?) [SOLVED-NOT RECOMMENDED]

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Martux · Post by **Martux** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:31 pm

Hi!

I am looking for an inexpensive printer and stumbled upon the Samsung CLP-325, which is a color laser printer.
Does anyone here own such a device and or can give me hints on it?
Thanks!

gerard27 · Post by **gerard27** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:38 pm

I am an Epson guy,don't know anything about Samsung.
But check linux printing to make sure it's supported.
Gerard.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:38 am

linuxprinting.org wrote:

This site is down for maintenance. We will be restoring service shortly. Thank you for your patience.

The Linux Foundation

I am pretty sure it is working but still I would love some advice on laser printers, cheap ones, color preffered. Is it worth the higher price for the toners?

derk · Post by **derk** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:08 pm

FYI: try www.openprinting.org it is live (essentially the same site) it has CLP-325 listed .. but using Samsung unified drivers .. source from samsung i think .. you might also look at net-print/splix in portage ..

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:10 pm

Is there an ebuild for the unified driver anywhere?

derk · Post by **derk** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:47 pm

google is your friend ..

chithanh · Post by **chithanh** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:17 am

Avoid the Samsung proprietary driver.

The CLP-325 is supported by the open source foo2qpdl driver, http://foo2qpdl.rkkda.com/

foo2qpdl is part of the net-print/foo2zjs package.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:11 am

Thanks chithanh, I will install that driver in favor of the binary one.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:27 pm

Wow, help. I am having massive problems.
The foo2qpdl driver installed without any problems but delivers very bad quality

Too bad.
Then I tried to install the net-print/samsung-unified-linux-driver from the ohnobinki_overlay.
This delivers two options, with or without the splix USE flag. Both don't work too good.
Splix doesn't seem to support that printer at all and without it all the pics have a blue touch. Very blue.
So I wanted to install the binary driver manually.
When I cd that directory and run the installer, I get the following:

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./install.sh 
****  It seems Qt library is not installed, or X display is not accessible.
****  Custom Qt library will be configured for use with this package.

Problem is, that the gui shows up, but all the fonts are only shown as squares so that I cannot finish the setup at all. I tried just clicking on the defaults but with no success. Please help, how could I fix this issue with the binary driver (I prefer using that due to quality)?

derk · Post by **derk** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:34 pm

drivers may need portion of qt4 w/ qt3support use flag that you do not have installed .. or may want just qt3 .. you are going to have to do a bit of trial and error ..perhaps start with adding qt3support use flag and emerging all the qt4 libs and reinstall drivers .. sorry I've never worked with these drivers .. anybody else?

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:06 pm

Qt3support is already built in. In which overlay could I find qt3?

FizzyWidget · Post by **FizzyWidget** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:14 pm

try foomatic

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:11 pm

The foo2qpdl is based on foomatic.

I tried to fiddle a bit with the settings of foo2qpdl, whatever I do, the color quality is suboptimal.
Btw. There is a big warning on the site stating the following:

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*** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from: 
Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, Xandros, EEE PC, Linpus, MacOSX, or BSD! 
*** Download it here and follow the directions below.

Is this warning still acute?

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:18 pm

Ohh, it seems to be my lucky day

The kernel segfaults(?) with this message:

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Nov 27 21:12:54 aumakua kernel: [28228.835768] gs[14290]: segfault at ffffffff30c86590 ip 0000000000724be4 sp 00007fffa89eaad0 error 4 in gs[400000+47e000]
Nov 27 21:12:54 aumakua foo2qpdl-wrapper: gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -g9920x7016 -r1200x600 -sDEVICE=bitcmyk -dCOLORSCREEN -dMaxBitmap=500000000  /tmp/icc14278.usecie.ps
Nov 27 21:12:54 aumakua foo2qpdl-wrapper: foo2qpdl -r1200x600 -g9920x7016 -p2 -m0 -n1 -d1 -s1 -z2 -c -u 150x100 -l 150x100   -B -A

Wahhhhhhhhhhh!
I can print exactly 1 job, then nothing works anymore

chithanh · Post by **chithanh** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:03 pm

The segfault is in the application "gs" as the kernel message says. The foo2zjs developer got bitter after disputes with distro packagers, hence the statement on the website.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:07 pm

If I try to install from the included directory /x86_64/qt4/install/
with the guiinstall, I get this error:

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./guiinstall: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Could I somehow link it against a newer linpng version?

Well, I am really getting desperate here with the friggin binary driver

Nothing I try works.
Regarding the statement on the website, does mean that the ebuild will install the optimal version?
I really have a problem with the colors, they are way too bright with foo2qpdl and why does it only print 1 job and then quits completely?
EDIT: Ongoing bad luck: The qt-meta-3.3.8b package from the sunrise overlay quits without an error during the compile phase. Maybe it doesn't like gcc-4.6.2, aye?

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:59 pm

The cups error log shows this:

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E [28/Nov/2011:07:11:01 +0100] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [28/Nov/2011:07:28:58 +0100] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [28/Nov/2011:07:32:59 +0100] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [28/Nov/2011:07:36:52 +0100] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [28/Nov/2011:07:37:29 +0100] Request for subdirectory "/admin/log/"!
E [28/Nov/2011:07:40:29 +0100] Unable to open listen socket for address [v1.::1]:631 - Address family not supported by protocol.
E [28/Nov/2011:07:49:06 +0100] Request for subdirectory "/admin/log/"!
E [28/Nov/2011:07:49:48 +0100] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Samsung_CLP-320_Series) from localhost

With foo2qpdl now nothing is printed anymore at all. Added and deleted the drivers several times, even reinstalled cups and foo2qpdl. Any ideas? I am beginning to hope the shop will return the device

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:42 pm

I "fixed" the problem: by returning this crap to the shop!
What a freaking mess. So unless you never want to print color in good quality, forget the OS driver.
The binary on the other hand has dependencies from the stone age. They didn't even compiled anymore on my ~amd64 machine. My advise, don't buy!

trippels · Post by **trippels** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:04 pm

Martux wrote:I "fixed" the problem: by returning this crap to the shop!
What a freaking mess. So unless you never want to print color in good quality, forget the OS driver.
The binary on the other hand has dependencies from the stone age. They didn't even compiled anymore on my ~amd64 machine. My advise, don't buy!

My advice would be to buy a printer that understands PostScript.
Then just download the ppd (text) file from the vendor and point CUPS to it.
That's all. No hassle. No trouble.

Martux · Post by **Martux** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:07 pm

My next will be HP. Should work flawless.
I made real good experiences with hplip.