On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 22:23, <steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk> wrote:
Not sure. Is Cups installed? I would expect it is. Try web-browsing to 127.0.0.1:631. Check printers. See which printer driver you have installed.
Sorry for so long getting back to this, I've been out of the office where I wanted to test. I just sent a 2 page PDF to my Samsung CLP-680. CUPS shows the print job. Size 204k, current status "Spooling job, 45% complete." (the job was started over 5 minutes ago). The web interface tells me the printer config is: Connection:dnssd://Samsung%20CLP-680%20Series%20(SEC842519116DA6)._printer._tcp.local/ Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided (Not sure if that is useful.) One of the things I never quite understand is how to pick which printer connection to use. For this printer I currently have these options: Samsung CLP-680 Series (SEC842519116DA6) (Samsung CLP-680 Series) Samsung CLP-680 Series (Samsung CLP-680 Series) Samsung CLP-680 Series (SEC842519116DA6) (Samsung CLP-680 Series) Samsung CLP-680 Series (driverless) (Samsung CLP-680 Series) (Two of which I note are identical.) The driver is "Samsung CLP-680 Series (PS)". Oh, and since I started writing this the job has finally printed the first page and maybe 80% of the second and thrown a memory error (at the printer end). Took maybe 10 minutes to reach that point. The only other option given for this specific model is "Samsung CLP-680 Series, driverless, cups-filters 1.27.4". Switching to that driver sped things up considerably - from print to completion in seconds, as I'd expect from Windows. So that seems like a success to me, but why? I'd be very surprised if I ever picked anything other than defaults when setting up the printer. (Thanks for your help making this printer usable on Linux!) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER