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n3wu53r

Member

Registered: 2011-09-06

Posts: 12

Samsung printer not detected

I have recently switched to Arch and I am having trouble setting up my printer. A Samsung SCX-4826FN, a monochrome laser printer/scanner. I do have cupsd running and when I plug my printer's usb in, there is no indication of anything happening, but the printer does show up in lsusb as:

Bus 003 Device 006: ID 04e8:3432 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 

The printer does not appear in the cups webui under add printers or find new printers.

I have installed these proprietary drivers which are supplied by samsung and the printer doesn't show up in their config tool either:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44188
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57207

The wiki does mention issues with samsung printers and says I should use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35029 instead of regular cups but the package is flagged out of date and in the comments the issues with samsung printers seem to have been fixed in cups 1.5.2 which is what I am using.

Any ideas on what could be wrong?

@leksey

Member

From: Russia

Registered: 2011-06-24

Posts: 19

Re: Samsung printer not detected

Did you disable usblp module?

cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf 
blacklist usblp

Try to unload usblp:
rmmod usblp

restart cupsd
/etc/rc.d/cupsd restart

and try to find printer in cups' webinterface.

n3wu53r

Member

Registered: 2011-09-06

Posts: 12

Re: Samsung printer not detected

The printer now works but the scanner does not. scanimage -L show no scanners found but a printer very similar to mine, the SCX-4825FN is shown under supported scanners:

http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#Z-SAMSUNG