Samsung ML-2510 printer (Solved - kinda)

macgyvier · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Denver, CO

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has had any luck getting a Samsung ML-2510 printer to work under Gentoo. Under cups the printer is detected on the parallel port when it's connected via usb. The printer does have both a parallel port and usb connection. I made sure that usb printer support was built into the kernel. Has anyone seen this kind of strange behavior before? It almost seems that the printer is reporting that it's a parallel port printer while it's connected via usb. Is that possible?

Thanks for any help, I've been working on trying to get this to work for quite a while now and could really use some other suggestions.

macgyvier · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Denver, CO

Ok, I finally got it working. It looks like it was just permission problems. However it was a great learning experience. Here's how I got it working:

Download the latest "Unified Linux Driver" from Samsung:
http://www.samsung.com/support/index.asp

The one I used was the 20060711102552437_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz driver set.

It's not necessary to run the installer, as it installs the multi-function peripheral/printer (mfp) interface which doesn't seem to work. If you connect the printer via USB there is a little confusion because the printer seems to show up on the parallel port, but not to worry, we can still communicate with it via the cups parallel interface.

Extract the tarball, it will place all files in a dir called cdroot.
We'll need to copy a couple of files over:
cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/ML-2510spl2.ppd
cdroot/Linux/i386/at_root/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungspl (there also looks to be one for x86_64, which I take to be the 64bit version)

Copy the files into the following directories (make sure you are the root user)

macgyvier · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Denver, CO

Update: Today it stopped working. I'm going to return this one. My advice would be to stay away from this printer for linux, unless you have Suse or really want a challenge. It's really too bad, because it's a nice printer and runs well under Windows.

xante · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 229

My printer stopped working for a while to but I never needed until today, all I had to do was copy over the 2 files for my ML-2010 and it started working again, I found another post with similar issues so the Samsung Laser series works great for me.

ugluk · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 64

The original author of this thread is a genius. The only thing that works for my ML-2010p (notice the p!).

You don't have to create any new devices, just specify parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 or whatever. No special permissions are needed either, just watch out for libgphoto2, which sometimes messes up udev rules!

Stupid Samsung and their Linux support. Instead of using their driver and messing up you HD you can easily use splix. Here is what works for me:

and3k · n00b Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 32

i have a problem with printing two pages on one sheet ...

everytime i try to print 2 pages on one sheet with kpdf cups fails:

chris_harvey · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject:

works for Samsung ML-1915. Didn't need to do udev rules.

The default install script is REALLY scary. I recommend installing just the ppd and rastertosamsungspl files.

Thanks for the guide!