Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"
On Tue 21 Jun 2016 at 16:25:00 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Early this morning you had an M202x series
> > printer; this afternoon you have an ML-2026W.
> > Not only is the ML-2026W not mentioned at the
> > Splix site but Samsung's site doesn't believe
> > it exists and says "We're sorry, your search
> > "ml-2026W" didn't return any results."
>
> Now I have yet another one!
>
> On the printer, it says: Samsung Xpress M2026W.
>
> On the installation guide, it says ditto M202x.
>
> It doesn't say "ML-2026W" anywhere tho :)
>
> > Please connect the printer to a USB port,
> > issue the command
> >
> > /usr/sbin/lpinfo -v
> >
> > and post the line beginning "direct usb://".
>
> direct usb://Samsung/M2020%20Series?serial=08HYB8GGBB029CJ
It's a Samsung M2020 Series printer. You were correct first time round. :)
It uses the Samsung Printer Language (SPL) but, as we have seen, ULD
doesn't support the ARM platform. In other words, patchy Linux support
from Samsung.
Splix doesn't claim support for the printer either. You could try what
comes next (you need the splix package) but I wouldn't build my hopes up
and expect success. But it will give you something to do for the rest of
the afternoon!
1. Get the Samsung_M2020_Series.ppd from the ULD tarball.
2. Edit the *cupsFilters line in it to read
*cupsFilters: "application.vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoqpdl
or
*cupsFilters: "application.vnd.cups-postscript 0 pstoqpdl
3. Put the PPD in /usr/share/ppd.
4. Use localhost:631 to set the print queue up. The M2020 PPD should be
on offer.
Any joy?
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