Samsung M2070FW printer driver in Linux Mint 17
 

Hi. I just did a new install of dual boot with Windows 7 and Linux Mint qinana.
Gnome 3.84 Kernel 3.13.0-24-generic

I have a Samsung M2070FW printer that I'm having trouble installing to Mint, it's OK with Windows. Previously I had Linux Mint and Vista dual boot and had to find the CUPS files and do a few additions to the package manager repositories and the Samsung worked just fine. I can't remember the steps of course!, but have searched on many sites, and it boils down to adding:

"/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertospl"

to my system to enable the driver usage, and I don't know the steps.
This printer is not listed in Open Printing, but I was able to work around this last time by adjusting the repositories. Any help would be appreciated!

Did you try looking at Samsung's website???
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/ow...SL-M2070FW/XAA

Specifically, the Printer & Scan driver, multi-language, for Linux? There's a file in there called "install.sh". Run it.

Thanks for the post. Yes, I've been to that site from the beginning but I guess it's not too clear. When I download the .gz file, then open the uld folder, I see the various files...including the install.sh file. When I click on it, it asks me if i want to RUN it (if I do nothing happens), RUN IN TERMINAL (nothing happens), or DISPLAY, where I get:

#!/bin/sh

SCRIPTS_DIR=$(dirname "$0")/noarch

# load 'scripting' run-time support utility functions
. "${SCRIPTS_DIR}/scripting_utils"
script_log_init $(basename "$0" ".sh")

# load 'package' run-time support utility functions
. "${SCRIPTS_DIR}/package_utils"
environment_init $(basename "$0" ".sh")

if sh "$SCRIPTS_DIR/pre_install.sh" "$@" ; then
if sh "$SCRIPTS_DIR/package_install.sh" "printer-meta" ; then
# CUPS - OK
sh "$SCRIPTS_DIR/package_install.sh" "scanner-meta"
else
# CUPS - NG
show_nls_message_no_nl "**** Do you want to continue to install scan driver ? [y/n] : "
if [ -z "${CONTINUE_INSTALL}" ] ; then
read CONTINUE_INSTALL
fi
if [ "y" = "${CONTINUE_INSTALL}" ] || [ "Y" = "${CONTINUE_INSTALL}" ] ; then
sh "$SCRIPTS_DIR/package_install.sh" "scanner-meta"
fi
fi
sh "$SCRIPTS_DIR/post_install.sh" "$@"
fi

That is when I started looking elsewhere!

Please provide relevant details like this when posting...it would have helped to know that you already visited that site and downloaded what you needed, rather than having to guess.

Go to a terminal window, and change directories to the uld folder. From there, (as ROOT), type in "./install.sh". That's it. From there, you should then be able to go into your printer configuration utility, and set things up, and your printer will show up in the list of supported devices.

I apologize for not listing the 50 steps I had taken prior to my post! I've been using Linux for a few years, but the commands are used so infrequently I lose the concepts as I get older...then can't find my list of "helps".

I downloaded the driver file from Samsung and extracted it.
My commands are between the - marks:

In my terminal I entered -cd uld- to change the directory to where the uld folder was I had downloaded.
In terminal entered -ls- to see what was in that Directory
Then entered -./install-printer.sh- to install the Samsung printer
And finally -./install-scanner.sh- to install the scanner
I don't know if this will enable the wireless capability, but for now this is great.

I did add Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on the system because I'm more familiar with Ubuntu, but the steps were the same for Mint and Ubuntu.

This was a little more detailed than your answer (I shold have told you to "dumb it down", simple steps can be a hurdle)!

Thank you very much, so grateful for this Forum.