Generally, your Linux desktop environment will provide a graphical printer configuration tool that allows you to easily configure CUPS and set up printers. There are many ways to connect printers, from direct connections with a USB cable to over the network. For some types of connections, your printer may be automatically detected and configured.
For others, you may need to do this on your own. Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions use a printer configuration developed by Red Hat. Other printer configuration tools work fairly similar, as they all use CUPS on the backend. Launch the printer configuration tool on your Linux desktop and start adding a printer. (On Ubuntu, open the System Settings window and click Printers, or launch the Printers application from the Dash.) Depending on the type of printer protocol you’ve selected, you may need to provide printer drivers. This tool will provide you with a list of printer drivers available in the foomatic database.
Select the manufacturer of your printer and look for its model number in the list. Don’t see your exact model of printer in the list?
Look for the closest model number and try it. After setting up the printer in this way, you’ll definitely want to print a test page to confirm that the printer driver you selected worked properly. You can also just use the CUPS web interface for printer setup and configuration. It’s a bit less user-friendly, but it should be available on every single Linux distribution. Open a web browser, plug localhost:631 into its address bar, and press Enter. Click over to “Administration” and use the “Add Printer” link to add a printer via the web interface. You’ll be asked for a password.
Enter your Linux user account’s username and password. For some Linux distributions, you may need to use the username “root” and the root password. Get a PPD File From the Manufacturer The printer configuration tool also allows you to provide a PPD file directly. Some manufacturers provide these files for their printers. You may find them on the printer’s driver disc, on the manufacturer’s download site for that printer, or included in the Windows driver itself if the printer is a PostScript printer. Look around the manufacturer’s website or on the driver disc for the PPD file. You can also consider downloading the Windows driver and attempt to open it in a file-extraction program.
Yes, even if it’s an.exe file, you may be able to open it up and dig around to see if you can find a PPD file. This may requier the cabextract tool.
You could also consider performing a web search for the name of the printer and “PPD file” to see if other people have successfully located a PPD file that will work for the printer. If you have a PPD file, you can install it from the printer configuration interface. Tap Into OpenPrinting.org’s Printer Database The OpenPrinting.org website maintains a database of printers along with reccomended printer drivers for them. The printer configuration tool can actually search for and download PPD files directly from there. However, you can also just and search for your model of printer. The database will tell you how well a printer works, recommend a driver, and provide PPD files. You can download the PPD file directly and install it manually, if the database offers it.
For some printers, you may be pointed towards special drivers provided by the manufacturer. You may need to install these to get the printer working — it’s often a good idea to search for your model of printer and “Linux” for instructions on getting it working.
Searching for instructions specific to your Linux distribution is also helpful, for example, your model of printer and “Ubuntu.” But It’s Still Not Working! In an ideal world, your printer would be automatically detected and “just work.” However, printers have been a big pain point for Linux users. The database of PPD files provided by foomatic is designed to make them work as easily as possible, and the OpenPrinting.org website is designed to provide a centralized database of instructions to make printers work properly on Linux. But some printers just aren’t supported and won’t work. Some printers may work, but not very well. Other printers may require proprietary drivers provided by their manufacturer, and those drivers can often be a headache to install — or they may not install at all on newer Linux distributions as they haven’t been maintained and updated over the years. For many printers, there’s just not much you can do.
If you want to use a printer with Linux, you should go out of your way to look for one that supports Linux.t You could also just do an end-run around the whole printer situation — for example, if you get a printer that supports Google Cloud Print, you could just print to it from Linux via, avoiding any printer driver problems. There’s even a, allowing any application that supports the standard CUPS system (that means most Linux desktop applications) to print to a Google Cloud Print printer. Having problems printing? You can always print documents to PDF and keep them in digital form — or just take those PDFs to another computer with a printer and print them there. Image Credit.
Gutenprint Printer Drivers - - - - - - - - - Welcome to Gutenprint! High quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL printers for use with, and. Gutenprint was formerly called Gimp-Print. Gimp-Print 4.2.7 (the last Gimp-Print 4.2 release) is still available for distribution, but is no longer supported. You may install both Gimp-Print 4.2.7 and Gutenprint 5.0, 5.1, and/or 5.2 concurrently and choose which to use. We recommend that all users use the latest 5.2 release; we are not going to do any further 5.0 releases.
Macintosh OS X Users! There is now a that answers most questions on how to use Gutenprint and Gimp-Print with OS X 10.2 'Jaguar' and beyond, and provides direct download links. Gutenprint 5.2.13-pre1 is available! New as of May 23, 2017!The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.13-pre1. This pre-release fixes some important bugs, adds support for additional printers, and offers improvements for others.
This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X. Gutenprint 5.2.12 is available! New as of January 19, 2017!The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.12. This release adds support for many new printers and other improvements over 5.2.11.
Note that the Foomatic data generator and the Ghostscript IJS driver have been removed as CUPS support is ubiquitous and Foomatic is not needed with CUPS. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.6 and above; 10.5 and below are no longer supported).
Gutenprint 5.2.11 is available! New as of January 15, 2016!The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.11.
This release adds support for many new printers (in particular Datamax-O'Neil label printers, more dye sublimation printers, and more Canon inkjets) and other improvements over 5.2.10. The main impact is for developers that link against the Gutenprint library. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.6 and above; 10.5 and below are no longer supported).
Gutenprint 5.2.10 is released! New as of May 20, 2014! After a very long hiatus, the Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.10, a stable release of 5.2. This release adds support for many new printers and other improvements over 5.2.9.
The main impact is for developers that link against the Gutenprint library. An updated German translation and improvement for some Epson and Canon media handling are also included. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.5 and above; 10.4 and below are no longer supported). Gutenprint 5.2.9 is released!
New as of July 7, 2012! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.9, a stable release of 5.2.
This release fixes a several bugs from 5.2.8. The main impact is for developers that link against the Gutenprint library. An updated German translation and improvement for some Epson and Caonon media handling are also included. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint 5.2.8 is released! New as of June 11, 2012!
The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.8, a stable release of 5.2. The Canon driver has been significantly overhauled for this release, and output (and in some cases functionality) may be significantly different from previous releases. We expect to perform further work in future releases. Also, an additional eighteen new Epson printers has been added. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint 5.2.7 is released!
New as of May 2, 2011! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.7, a stable release of 5.2. This release offers support for more than 80 additional printers from Canon, Epson, and Kodak. There are also some changes for other Epson printers. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint is Sourceforge Project of the Month for November, 2010!
New as of November 16, 2010! The Gutenprint project is honored to have been selected Sourceforge Project of the Month for November, 2010. Please see the announcement at Gutenprint 5.2.6 is released! New as of August 10, 2010! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.6, a stable release of 5.2. This release offers additional support for Epson Stylus Pro printers, along with some changes for other Epson printers and support for additional Canon inkjets and PCL laser printers over 5.2.5. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above).
Gutenprint 5.2.5 is released! New as of February 11, 2010! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.5, a stable release of 5.2.
This release offers several fixes, new features, and support for new printers over 5.2.4. This package is available in source form, and also in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint 5.2.4 is released! New as of July 29, 2009! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.4, a stable release of 5.2.
This release offers several fixes, new features, and support for new printers for 5.2.3. This package is available in source form, and in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint 5.2.3 is released!
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New as of December 22, 2008! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.3, a stable bugfix release of 5.2. This release offers several important fixes for 5.2.2. This package is available in source form, and in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above).
Gutenprint 5.2.2 is released! New as of November 16, 2008! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.2, a stable bugfix release of 5.2. This release offers a few bug fixes for 5.2.1. This package is available in source form, and in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Gutenprint 5.2.1 is released!
New as of October 21, 2008! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.2.1, the first stable release of Gutenprint 5.2. This release offers many fixes and improvements over the 5.0 and 5.1 release series. This package is available in source form, and in binary installer form for Macintosh OS X (10.3 and above). Note that this release is no longer compatible with OS X 10.2!. Gutenprint 5.0.2 is released!
New as of January 3, 2008! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.0.2, a stable release in the Gutenprint 5.0 series.
This release features full support for CUPS 1.2, full support for borderless printing on Epson inkjet printers, support for more Epson, Canon, and dye sublimation printers, and more. This package is available in source form, and as a binary installer for Macintosh OS X (10.2 and above). Gutenprint 5.0.1 is released! New as of June 17, 2007! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce Gutenprint 5.0.1, a stable release in the Gutenprint 5.0 series.
This release features full support for CUPS 1.2, full support for borderless printing on Epson inkjet printers, support for many more Epson, Canon, and dye sublimation printers, and more. This package is available in source form, and as a binary installer for Macintosh OS X (10.2 and above). Gutenprint 5.0.0 is released!
New as of July 30, 2006! The Gutenprint project is pleased to announce the first public release of Gutenprint 5.0. This release, which has been under development for over four years, offers improved quality, greatly enhanced functionality, and support for many more printers than our previous version, Gimp-Print 4.2. Currently only the source package is available. We expect to release a binary installer for Macintosh OS X in the very near future. Gimp-Print 4.2.7 is released!
New as of July 15, 2004! Gimp-Print 4.2.7 is released. This offers a number of bug fixes over 4.2.6.
Gutenprint is supplied in source code form under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Please be sure to read the README and NEWS files in the distribution. The Gutenprint Project Team Please visit, which contains a lot more information about us! What is Gutenprint? Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX and Linux print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4) and Linux systems that in many cases equal or exceed proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in quality and functionality, and can be used for demanding printing tasks requiring flexibility and high quality.
This software package includes an enhanced Print plugin for the GIMP that replaces the plugin packaged with the GIMP, and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, as well as Foomatic data supporting the Ghostscript driver. Gutenprint has been renamed in order to clearly distinguish it from the GIMP. While this package started out as the original Print plugin for the GIMP, it has expanded into a collection of general purpose printer drivers, and the new, enhanced Print plugin for the GIMP is now only a small part of the package. Furthermore, the name Gutenprint recognizes Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the movable type printing press. Finally, the word guten is the German word for good. Gutenprint 5.2 incorporates extensive feedback from the beta and release candidate programs.
Gutenprint supports only the printer portion of multi-function devices (devices that typically include scanning, copying, and fax capabilities). We recommend that all users who wish to use this package for general purpose printing use either CUPS or, if they use another printing system or no spooler at all, use Foomatic with the Ghostscript driver (both described below), rather than integrating the Ghostscript driver with self-made scripts or even manually typing in Ghostscript command lines. It is much simpler to manage with CUPS or Foomatic and its PPDs. CUPS provides an excellent web-based interface for easy printer administration, and all CUPS-enabled applications (OpenOffice.org, all KDE apps, etc.) and printing dialogs (kprinter, xpp, etc.) show all the options in easy to use GUIs. Please visit for information on downloading and installing CUPS. Gutenprint currently supports over 700 printer models. History of Gutenprint The early years: Gimp-Print 3.x and 4.0 The predecessor to this software package (the original Print plugin for the GIMP) was first written by Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products and initially worked only as a print plugin to the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).
In the summer of 1999, I purchased an Epson Stylus Photo EX printer to feed my photography hobby. Finding no existing printer drivers, I adapted Mike's GIMP Print plugin to this six-color printer, and by the end of the year released version 3.0 of the Gimp-Print software, which was included in version 1.1 of the GIMP. The intention was for this to be the stable plugin in version 1.2 of the GIMP while development of the GIMP Print plugin continued for later release. I put the Gimp-Print development tree on SourceForge starting with version 3.1, and quickly found a group of like-minded people who wanted to print high quality output on inexpensive inkjet printers. One of the main goals, which was not expected to be met until late in the version 3.1 cycle, was to write a Ghostscript driver so that printing would not be restricted to the GIMP. Much to my surprise, someone wrote one within days!
That gave me my first clue that the project was destined for greater things. In July 2000, barely a year after I bought my Epson Stylus Photo EX, I was invited to the Linux Printing Summit hosted by VA Linux Systems. In preparation for that, I spent long hours printing out test images. I went back to the Gimp-Print version 3.0.9 release, which seemed like such an advance at the time, and was floored at how far the project had come in four months! Output that had been considered impressive with using six colors was put to shame by four color output. That should give you an idea what modern printing technology can do.
It also illustrates what a group of committed people can do. I came away from the Printing Summit with a lot of new ideas. Other people were busy adding new features and support for more printers, and in November 2000, we released Gimp-Print version 4.0, the culmination of 9 months of work by the team. The quality was already tremendously improved over what the software could do at the Printing Summit. I knew at the time that Gimp-Print 4.0 had some serious limitations that would restrict what could be done. In particular, its color model was very restricted (it could only handle RGB and CMYK printers, possibly with light magenta and light yellow inks) and the code was still closely tied in with the Print plugin for the GIMP.
I wanted to devise a new architecture for the next release that would allow us to take advantage of more printer capabilities and support improved color generation and dithering, but progress was slow. It took us a few months to fully stabilize Gimp-Print 4.0, and it became clear that our more ambitious goals weren't going to be achieved quickly.
We decided to do an interim stable release based on improvements to the 4.0 codebase that would give us some breathing space while we worked on a new architecture. Gimp-Print 4.2 The interim stable release was to become Gimp-Print 4.2. We used the numbering scheme adopted by the Linux kernel team, whereby stable releases were denoted by even numbers in the minor release (the “2” in 4.2) while odd numbers denoted unstable development releases. We were fortunate that Roger Leigh joined the project shortly after the Gimp-Print 4.0 release.
Roger is a superb architect, and he quickly whipped the somewhat disorganized code base into shape. We spent most of 2001 cleaning up the code base, adding support for CUPS (by now, Mike Sweet had joined the project) and the nascent Foomatic metadata management project, improving the color generation and dithering code, and adding support for more printers. A lot of our work went into automatically generating the CUPS PPD files and Foomatic data; the project already supported about 200 printers with a large number of options, and writing all of this by hand would be tedious, error-prone, and unmaintainable. We spent most of the fall working on documentation, cleaning up bugs, and the like, and released Gimp-Print 4.2.0 in late November. Anticipating that the next major release of Gimp-Print would be a more extensive project, we decided to branch the 4.2 release, and work on the next release (which would be either 4.4 or 5.0, depending upon how extensive the changes would be) while also releasing updates to 4.2.
This would allow us to fix bugs and add new printers and perhaps minor new capabilities for users wanting a stable Gimp-Print release while making much more radical changes in preparation for the next release. We started work on Gimp-Print 4.3 (the development series that would eventually mature into the next stable release series) around the beginning of 2002. The Gimp-Print 4.2 release proved to be far more successful than we ever imagined.
First of all, it was wonderfully stable from the outset; it was to be over 4 months before we needed to release an update. We added one major new feature shortly after release, support for the new Ghostscript driver architecture based on HP's HPIJS driver. This driver architecture allowed drivers to be compiled independently of Ghostscript (previously drivers had to be compiled into Ghostscript, a somewhat daunting project for end users). We continued to add more printers, dither algorithms, and so forth, all without breaking compatibility with the initial 4.2.0 release.
2002 was a very exciting year for Gimp-Print. Apple had released OS X for the Macintosh and was planning to rely on a lot of free/open source software for key functions of the OS. In particular from our standpoint, many vendors had not updated printer drivers for OS X, and many did not want to update their drivers for older printers.
Since OS X had settled on CUPS as the core of its printing system from 10.2 on, and Gimp-Print had full support for CUPS, the fit was very obvious and Gimp-Print wound up becoming part of the OS X printing system. We were very busy that year preparing for release of Gimp-Print for OS X. This was done in 4.2.2, which we released almost 9 months after the initial 4.2.0 release (which says something about the stability of Gimp-Print 4.2). This release created a lot of excitement in the OS X world and for us, and we did three more releases in quick succession culminating with Gimp-Print 4.2.5 in early 2003. I was expecting that there would be one more release of Gimp-Print 4.2 that would primarily contain bug fixes and incremental support for new printers. By 2003, many of the printers being released had capabilities beyond what Gimp-Print 4.2 could support. I also expected that we would be ready to release Gimp-Print 4.4 or 5.0 within a year, so there wouldn't be a need for anything more.
We released Gimp-Print 4.2.6 in early 2004. However, there were still some problems with that release, and we did one more release (4.2.7) in July 2004. This wound up being the final Gimp-Print 4.2 release.
Gimp-Print Becomes Gutenprint In the meantime, work on Gimp-Print 4.3 was progressing, albeit rather slowly. We wanted to support the newest generation printers with tiny droplets, very high resolutions, and extra colors, in addition to adding color management and the possibility of supporting many more printer capabilities beyond the fixed set offered in Gimp-Print 4.2. In part due to all of the maintenance work on 4.2, and in part due to the natural tendency of people to move on to other projects, we made only slow progress on Gimp-Print 4.3. It was clear that we weren't going to release a next generation of Gimp-Print in 2002 or early 2003 as we hoped. However, the success of Gimp-Print 4.2 took some of the pressure off, because 4.2 was proving to be highly maintainable.
We wanted the next generation of Gimp-Print to be more than just another incremental advance. The core of the new parameter-based API, and hence of Gimp-Print 4.3, was in place by early 2003.
By this time, 4.2 was slowing down, and work on our development tree was starting to pick up. We decided that the architectural and user experience changes were sufficient to name the next release 5.0, and I put together a plan for going to alpha in July and releasing 5.0 in November 2003. That was not to be. We were doing new releases of 4.3 for intrepid adventurers every few weeks, with extensive changes continuing, and it was only in December that we finally felt ready to move to 5.0 alpha, which we released in January 2004. Progress was slow; there were still quite a few API changes we felt we needed to make, and there were still serious quality problems with many printers. In addition, new printers were being shipped with additional inks that we couldn't handle very well.
We also had to adapt to other changes, such as GIMP 2.0 based on GTK+ 2.0, which was not backward compatible with GTK+/GIMP 1.2. We released Gimp-Print 5.0 beta in June with many improvements, but there were still quite a few things on our release checklist that weren't done. Based on the popularity of Gimp-Print 4.2, we decided that it was very important that Gimp-Print 5.0 not interfere with the use of Gimp-Print 4.2. It was clear that the changes in 5.0 were too extensive to maintain compatibility in any useful way with 4.2, and a lot of people had incorporated 4.2 into their daily work, so we thought long and hard about how to make the CUPS and Foomatic interfaces not interfere with Gimp-Print 4.2. It also became apparent that our ties to the GIMP had all but vanished by this point. We had actually squeezed all of the GIMP-related code out into a very small stub that was actually smaller than the original GIMP plugin! Furthermore, the Gimp-Print name was causing a lot of confusion among users; OS X users in parrticular were referring to Gimp-Print as 'Gimp'.
We settled on the name Gutenprint, and renamed the project in the fall of 2004. We were still in beta; progress was slow at this point, but we weren't satisfied with the results.
We finally did our first release candidate in September 2005, over a year after we entered beta. We continued to move toward 5.0 release, but there was still a lot of cleanup work that needed to be done: printers needed to be retuned, PPD files needed to be validated, we needed to incorporate feedback from users that we only really started to get from the release candidates. There were a number of serious but subtle bugs with the CUPS and Foomatic interfaces that needed to be fixed in order to have a useful 5.0 public release.
In April 2006 I attended my second printing summit, this one hosted by Lanier, and spent three days working with many key players in the Linux/UNIX printing world. This was very productive; I got a lot of useful feedback on various issues and was able to raise issues important to Gutenprint. We released the third release candidate in May 2006, with a tremendous number of bug fixes and improvements, and this finally felt like a real release candidate. We received extensive feedback from this release, and fixed other problems and made some other changes to improve quality. In Gutenprint 5.2, we accomplished many of our outstanding goals left over from Gutenprint 5.0, but not all.
We've rewritten the Postscript output driver, converted the data in the Epson driver to be data-driven, and much more. Unfortunately, Gutenprint 5.2 still does not offer true color management, but many of the hooks required are there. - - - - - - - - Resources very kindly provided by Canon is a trademark of Canon USA. Epson and (probably) ESCP are trademarks of Epson Seiko Ltd. HP and (probably) PCL are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Welcome to the Mac OS X section of OpenPrinting. Beginning with Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar), Apple started using the embedded printing system called CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). This means that Mac users can now avail themselves of many of the free, open source printer drivers. Getting these open source drivers to function in the Mac OS X environment can seem a bit confusing. It is mostly a modular system.
Rather than using one single installer provided by the printer manufacturer, Mac users may now have to install several pieces of software. It may require installing a printer driver, Ghostscript (an open-source PostScript interpreter), foomatic-rip (a CUPS filter script), and a foomatic PPD (PostScript Printer Description) for each supported printer. The Mac OS X packages and instructions included on this site will help lead you through the process.
All software required for a particular Mac OS X driver will be listed on that driver's page. Further help and support can be found in the and. Even though your printer manufacturer may have supplied a driver for your printer, you may still benefit from these open source drivers. Many Mac OS X printer drivers that the manufacturer supplies may not work if you are trying to use the printer in a networked environment. Virtually all of the open source drivers can utilize all the capabilities built into the CUPS printing system. That includes printing over a network.
Some people refer to these drivers as CUPS drivers. Please note that all Mac OS X packages on this site require Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher. The OpenPrinting site also contains a number of resources to help you with your printing problems under Mac OS X. It includes a, a, the printing infrastructure, and more.
There are over 250 printer drivers and over 2000 printers in the database. Mac OS X packages are not available all drivers. If no Mac package is listed for the printer driver you need, please ask about it in the.
Unfortunately, getting the drivers to work may require more advanced skills, such as compiling source code, and generally goes beyond the scope of user-to-user help forums. Please try to be patient and realistic in your expectations.
Researching a printer purchase? As you narrow the field, check to see if the printer is supported by one of the Mac OS X packages listed above. Is a trademark of. HP is a trademark of. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Excuse me, but this is unbelievable. This is the second case in a week where we have seen support from a manufacturer for Linux platforms but not Mac OS X. I hope you take the time and effort to contact Samsung and ask for similar support for Mac OS X. To get your printer working right now, you can try the drivers from linuxprinting.org.
You will also need to install the ESP Ghostscript package. There is no PPD for the ML-2250, but my guess is that one of the other models should work. This printer is listed as a by the linuxprinting.org. Hope this helps. Matt Mac Mini; B&W G3/300 Jul 24, 2006 9:51 AM. The PPD files you downloaded from the Samsung site and the PPDs contained in the download from the linuxprinting.org site are not interchangeable. A PPD contains a lot of information and is tailored to the driver you are using.
The PPD that came with the Samsung Linux software will not work on Mac OS X. The PPD file that came with the Samsung Linux download tells the CUPS to use the Samsung software that was installed. The PPD files that come with the linuxprinting.org's samsung-foomatic package tells CUPS to use the gdi device built into ESP Ghostscript.
I don't guarantee that downloads from the linuxprinting.org site will work with your printer. The samsung-foomatic package is all we have that might work. Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Jul 24, 2006 6:43 PM. Yup, I tried it, and no worky.
Sorry it didn't work. Let's have another try. I changed one of the Samsung PPDs a bit to use a different device that is built into Ghostscript. I put a trial PPD on my site which you can.
My suggestion is that you first delete the Samsung printer queue you already installed and then add a new queue. That way you can leave the PPD on your Desktop and navigate to it by choosing 'Other' for the PPD. As you had tried the Linux PPD before, I'm sure you know the other ways to get the PPD attached to a printer. I changed several things in the PPD.
First I changed the model number so that it would match your printer. The other change I made was in the command it sent to Ghostscript. The previous PPD you tried called for Ghostscript to use the 'gdi' device. I changed that so that Ghostscript uses the 'samsunggdi' device. That is the device that was cited on the.
Let us know if it works at all. We can do some other customizing to the PPD to more closely match your printer characteristics if need be. If you are trying to print from OSX to a printer hooked up to a Windows box, you should still need the right drivers on you OSX machine. There is a way to circumvent that on a Windows box. See the oft cited on how to create a redirected printer in Windows.
Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Jul 25, 2006 7:50 PM. That didn't work either. Although, I have been trying all of this over a network.
I think the appropriate thing to do is to first try plugging the printing directly into my Mac and try to get it working that way, That would be a help in determining where the problem might lie. Just so I know for sure if that PPD you spent all that time modifying works or not. It actually took less than 2 minutes to change the model number and the device name to pass on to Ghostscript. It may well be that the 'gdi' and the 'samsunggdi' devices built into Ghostscript are actually the same. There was also mention that the 'hpijs' package using the 2150 driver might work.
This courtesy of Greg Sahli in. Matt Aug 2, 2006 5:13 PM. Do you have any information on exactly how you modified the PPD?
I have a simular problem, and I was wondering if there was anyplace that told you how to do that. Could you please be more specific as to what changes you want to make and what PPD you want to modify. I'm not sure pointing you to the 240 pages of Adobe specifications would be of any help to you.
I haven't even read through the entirity of those specifications. Dealing with real world examples would be far less time consuming and get you what you want. Matt Aug 15, 2006 10:00 AM. Nathan, You can get your Samsung ML-2150 printer to work by using what is called the 'hpijs' driver set. You can download the hpijs driver and ESP Ghostscript from. You will need to download and install both packages.
After you install these packages, you will find your printer in the printer list when you use Printer Setup Utility to add your printer. Be sure to get the downloads that end with '.dmg'. These are specifically for Mac OS X. You do not want to download the source code. CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System. It is the printing system that is used in Mac OS X. Printer Setup Utility and the print windows that appear when you go to print are Apple's graphical user interface (GUI) to CUPS.
PPD stands for PostScript Printer Description. Every printer in Mac OS X must have a PPD. Although you may not have a PostScript printer, these files do describe the capabilities of your printer to the printing system.
For non-PostScript printers, there is added information in the PPD file that tells CUPS where to direct the data stream for proper implementation for your particular printer. Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Aug 27, 2006 6:37 PM. Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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Excuse me, but this is unbelievable. This is the second case in a week where we have seen support from a manufacturer for Linux platforms but not Mac OS X. I hope you take the time and effort to contact Samsung and ask for similar support for Mac OS X. To get your printer working right now, you can try the drivers from linuxprinting.org. You will also need to install the ESP Ghostscript package. There is no PPD for the ML-2250, but my guess is that one of the other models should work.
This printer is listed as a by the linuxprinting.org. Hope this helps. Matt Mac Mini; B&W G3/300 Jul 24, 2006 9:51 AM. The PPD files you downloaded from the Samsung site and the PPDs contained in the download from the linuxprinting.org site are not interchangeable.
A PPD contains a lot of information and is tailored to the driver you are using. The PPD that came with the Samsung Linux software will not work on Mac OS X. The PPD file that came with the Samsung Linux download tells the CUPS to use the Samsung software that was installed. The PPD files that come with the linuxprinting.org's samsung-foomatic package tells CUPS to use the gdi device built into ESP Ghostscript. I don't guarantee that downloads from the linuxprinting.org site will work with your printer.
The samsung-foomatic package is all we have that might work. Moultrie mfh-dgs-d40 manual. Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Jul 24, 2006 6:43 PM. Yup, I tried it, and no worky.
Sorry it didn't work. Let's have another try. I changed one of the Samsung PPDs a bit to use a different device that is built into Ghostscript. I put a trial PPD on my site which you can. My suggestion is that you first delete the Samsung printer queue you already installed and then add a new queue.
That way you can leave the PPD on your Desktop and navigate to it by choosing 'Other' for the PPD. As you had tried the Linux PPD before, I'm sure you know the other ways to get the PPD attached to a printer. I changed several things in the PPD. First I changed the model number so that it would match your printer. The other change I made was in the command it sent to Ghostscript.
The previous PPD you tried called for Ghostscript to use the 'gdi' device. I changed that so that Ghostscript uses the 'samsunggdi' device. That is the device that was cited on the. Let us know if it works at all. We can do some other customizing to the PPD to more closely match your printer characteristics if need be. If you are trying to print from OSX to a printer hooked up to a Windows box, you should still need the right drivers on you OSX machine.
There is a way to circumvent that on a Windows box. See the oft cited on how to create a redirected printer in Windows. Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Jul 25, 2006 7:50 PM. That didn't work either. Although, I have been trying all of this over a network.
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I think the appropriate thing to do is to first try plugging the printing directly into my Mac and try to get it working that way, That would be a help in determining where the problem might lie. Just so I know for sure if that PPD you spent all that time modifying works or not. It actually took less than 2 minutes to change the model number and the device name to pass on to Ghostscript.
It may well be that the 'gdi' and the 'samsunggdi' devices built into Ghostscript are actually the same. There was also mention that the 'hpijs' package using the 2150 driver might work. This courtesy of Greg Sahli in. Matt Aug 2, 2006 5:13 PM.
Do you have any information on exactly how you modified the PPD? I have a simular problem, and I was wondering if there was anyplace that told you how to do that. Could you please be more specific as to what changes you want to make and what PPD you want to modify. I'm not sure pointing you to the 240 pages of Adobe specifications would be of any help to you. I haven't even read through the entirity of those specifications. Dealing with real world examples would be far less time consuming and get you what you want. Matt Aug 15, 2006 10:00 AM.
Nathan, You can get your Samsung ML-2150 printer to work by using what is called the 'hpijs' driver set. You can download the hpijs driver and ESP Ghostscript from. You will need to download and install both packages. After you install these packages, you will find your printer in the printer list when you use Printer Setup Utility to add your printer.
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Be sure to get the downloads that end with '.dmg'. These are specifically for Mac OS X. You do not want to download the source code. CUPS stands for Common Unix Printing System. It is the printing system that is used in Mac OS X. Printer Setup Utility and the print windows that appear when you go to print are Apple's graphical user interface (GUI) to CUPS.
PPD stands for PostScript Printer Description. Every printer in Mac OS X must have a PPD. Although you may not have a PostScript printer, these files do describe the capabilities of your printer to the printing system. For non-PostScript printers, there is added information in the PPD file that tells CUPS where to direct the data stream for proper implementation for your particular printer.
Matt Mac Mini G4; B&W G3/300 Aug 27, 2006 6:37 PM. Apple Footer This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.
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