Troubleshooting/Samsung scx-4500W

Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> posted the following commentary regarding installation on Fedora 10. Note that some references are to local directories, and you may have to edit these to suit your system.

Setting up the Printer

I downloaded the driver set and untarred them. The drivers are available from http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/download/supportDown.do?group=printsolutions&type=printsolutions&subtype=monomultifunctionproducts&model_nm=SCX-4500W&language=&cate_type=all&dType=D&mType=DR&vType=&prd_ia_cd=06010300&disp_nm=SCX-4500W&model_cd=&menu=download

However I did not install their script(s). Instead I pulled the following two files out of their Unified Driver file: I added the file rastertosamsungspl (from cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl) to /usr/lib/cups/filter/

and scx4500w.ppd (from cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/) to /usr/share/cups/model/samsung/ Note the permissions are 644

Also did cd to /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds and made directory samsung, then gzip -c /path-to-my-scx4500w/scx4500w.ppd > samsung/scx4500w.ppd.gz

That was all that seemed to be needed. Anyway I plugged in the usb line to the main machine here running F10, and turned on the printer whilst tailing the messages file.

On startup it immediately recognised the printer and the messages file showed that the device had been found correctly and culminated in:

Jul 20 20:37:32 home1 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp

Jul 20 20:38:00 home1 hal_lpadmin: Added printer SCX-4500W-Series

A window popped up saying the printer had been added and offered me to check the settings - all that I changed was the paper size from the US Letter to our A4 size and then I ran a test page - which looked perfect.

Then I printed a system status page from the printer itself which was fine, and then did a test print from the main machine - all seems well.

cups started eating lots of cpu so I restarted it and it settled down nicely. I then checked that the printer was visible to other machines on the LAN and it worked nicely.

I have not used the ethernet cable yet, nor changed the wireless settings. I'll have to put it on the local network and give it a sensible ip address rather than the default 192. address that it comes with.

I have also been preparing the setup to allow scanning but not had a chance to test that yet.

Anyway it is very pleasing that the printer is working, despite being an unsupported printer - and only using the two files pulled from the other Samsung linux application allowed the printer to work nicely.

Scanning

I have also now tested scanning on the scx-4500w now.

I installed sane-backends from updates-testing to give sane-backends-1.0.20-4.fc10.i386

Then edited /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf to add two extra lines, according to advice from other postings on the net since the Samsung printer was suggested to work with the xerox_mfp backend setup:

# Samsung SCX-4500W
usb 0x04e8 0x342b

Then made a new file /etc/hal/fdi/information/19-libsane-scx4500w.fdi with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>                                        
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.subsystem" string="usb">
      <match key="usb.vendor_id" int="0x04e8">
        <match key="usb.product_id" int="0x342b">
          <append key="info.capabilities"
type="strlist">scanner</append>
        </match>
      </match>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

Then I simply fired up the GIMP and asked it to scan - it found the scanner, and it worked without any further setup.

So although I have only tested the printing and scanning capability on F10 via the usb port it does work very nicely.

Yet to test:

1) printer access via ethernet
2) printer access via wireless
3) scanner access via ether/wifi

If anyone has done any other tests on this Samsung SCX-4500W and has step-by-step setup details I would be interested to hear the information. Either way this is a nice printer, and very quiet in operation, and does look pretty cool too!

Network Access

I have now tested network access and it works fine. I will add the details when I can in about a week.