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!)