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alexpe87

Member

Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 12

[CUPS] Printing issues with Samsung SCX 4600 Series printer

Hello everybody!

I followed the guide available here and wasn't able to get my printer up and running.

It is a Samsung SCX 4600 Series bw Multifunction printer, which has already been working ~ 2 years ago with Archlinux. Unfortunately I don't remember what I did back then but some things changed since then, so did CUPS.

What I get so far:

[alex@GANDALF ~]$ lsusb
Bus 004 Device 007: ID 04e8:3433 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 

[alex@GANDALF ~]$ lsmod | grep usb
usblp                  12722  0 
snd_usb_audio         115982  1 
snd_usbmidi_lib        18835  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            18710  1 snd_usbmidi_lib
usbhid                 41466  0 
hid                    88502  3 hid_generic,usbhid,hid_logitech_dj
snd_hwdep               6332  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm                77765  5 cx23885,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd                    58950  24 snd_hda_codec_realtek,cx23885,snd_usb_audio,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
usbcore               177183  8 usblp,snd_usb_audio,uvcvideo,snd_usbmidi_lib,ehci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbhid,xhci_hcd
usb_common              1648  1 usbcore

[alex@GANDALF ~]$ dmesg | grep usb
[28122.946634] usb 4-1.5: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[28123.043060] usblp 4-1.5:1.1: usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3433
[28123.043086] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[30809.425125] usblp2: removed
[30809.426661] usblp 4-1.5:1.1: usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3433
[31016.961798] usblp2: removed
[31016.963032] usblp 4-1.5:1.1: usblp2: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3433

[alex@GANDALF ~]$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb 
DEBUG: list_devices
DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=11
DEBUG2: Printer found with device ID: MFG:Samsung;CMD:SPL,FWV,EXT;MDL:SCX-4600 Series;CLS:PRINTER;MODE:SCN;STATUS:BUSY; Device URI: usb://Samsung/SCX-4600%20Series?serial=Z2VBBFAZ200305T&interface=1
direct usb://Samsung/SCX-4600%20Series?serial=Z2VBBFAZ200305T&interface=1 "Samsung SCX-4600 Series" "Samsung SCX-4600 Series" "MFG:Samsung;CMD:SPL,FWV,EXT;MDL:SCX-4600 Series;CLS:PRINTER;MODE:SCN;STATUS:BUSY;" ""

I don't really get why this is not working. The current PPD / driver file was installed but my printer does not show up in CUPS. Anybody got an idea what could went wrong?
I have absolutely no clue right now...

rscholer

Member

From: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 48

Re: [CUPS] Printing issues with Samsung SCX 4600 Series printer

I'm using a SCX-4200R, but it is probably the same issue:

• Please check whether

  /dev/bus/usb/004/007

  is in the "lp" group. (Please check lsusb to get the correct bus and device number.)

• If it is not, you need to create a new udev rule:

  ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3433", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

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My code on github

alexpe87

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Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 12

Re: [CUPS] Printing issues with Samsung SCX 4600 Series printer

This worked! I got it working again ;-)

Thanks!