Printer problems

[Jim]

On 01/21/2012 08:54 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 01/21/2012 07:57 PM, Jim wrote:
>> On 01/21/2012 06:57 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>>> On 01/21/2012 05:12 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>> Samsung's installer believes CUPS expects to find file
>>>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc , but he is wrong: CUPS 
>>>> expects
>>>> to find those file in /usr/libexec/cups/filter.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a true statement as for Fedora 16 ? does cups look at
>>>> /usr/libexec/cups/filter ? Instead of /usr/lib/cups/filter?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't say for sure about F16 but I do know that I've had trouble
>>> with the Samsung installer failing to install it's filters under root
>>> ownership. Check on that before going to heroic efforts to solve
>>> whatever problems you may be having.
>>>
>> When i install Samsung driver I do a su - in terminal.
>> rasterbtosamsungsplc is shown as being own by root.
>>
>> All I can get is a /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed , the
>> printer is being detected on network or usb:// but all I get is
>> /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosamsungsplc failed , when I try to print
>>
>> There surely is something different in Fedora 16 ,because I used this
>> same Samsung driver in Fedora 13, 14, 15 and there is no updated driver
>> on Samsung driver website. for the CLX3175FN , the driver is CLX3170
>> series.
>>
>> I sent the error log to Samsung and they ack. they received it, but no
>> updates.
>>
>
> One more thing.  Have you tried to install your printer directly 
> through the print manager?  That's how I installed my Samsung ML-1740 
> this last time I did a clean install.  I used the the Samsung 
> installer in the past.
>
If your taking about system-config-printers , that's is how I always do it.