{"id":803,"date":"2018-09-01T17:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haos.hopto.org\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2018-09-02T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T13:26:42","slug":"samsung-scx-3405w-in-gentoo-cups-drivers-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haos.hopto.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/01\/samsung-scx-3405w-in-gentoo-cups-drivers-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung SCX-3405W in Gentoo (Cups, drivers etc.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TL;DR – emerge -va\u00a0net-print\/splix<\/strong>\u00a0and use custom ppd<\/strong> file<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time my printer stopped working (of course when I want to print something urgently). The hardware was ok, working and not otherwise broken because connecting it to laptop did the job – I print urgent fliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was weird, is that nothing was changed inside etc\/cups directory. So there must be some other things that changed: \/usr\/libexec\/cups was the natural choice. Specifically my ppd<\/strong> file included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*cupsFilter: \"application\/vnd.cups-raster 0 rastertoqpdl\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
And CUPS test page upon printing returned rastertoqpdl not available: No such file or directory<\/em>. Well, this\u00a0rastertoqpdl was supposed to be somewhere. Let’s look it up inside \/usr\/libexe\/cups\/filter. Nope – nothing, I’ve looked into backups half year back – nope, no such file. Ooo, let’s pick new driver maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately Samsung sold (??) it’s driver support to HP and they had a driver fresh and new for SCX-3400<\/strong> family but it was not working –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unable to open raster pipe raster stream - : Broken pipe<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
that’s what I got from every try to print anything. So driver was new (latest) but not functioning. It was not using rastertoqpdl<\/strong> filter though. Different route maybe? I downgraded cups, cups-filters, and checked with ldd<\/strong> proper binaries linking – nothing. But I know I had working setup with proper ppd file which contained\u00a0rastertoqpdl. So where to get this file?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok, search the net – not much, search backup – none, older driver – same stuff. And after one day of fight (and sleep over with the problem) I stumbled upon\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[I] net-print\/splix<\/strong>Available versions: 2.0.0_p20130826 {+jbig}Installed versions: 2.0.0_p20130826(16:48:17 01.09.2018)(jbig)Homepage: http:\/\/splix.sourceforge.net\/Description: A set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Yup, something for the Samsung from open source? My hope is almost depleted but I will emerge this and see what’s underneath. Woooaa, it has the\u00a0rastertoqpdl which my working ppd is using. Come on, it can’t be. But it was – my printer was working again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BTW. Here’s my PPD file:\u00a0https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ChaosEngine\/65532a1bb837e5adaa067af7670ff2c2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Samsung_SCX-3400_Series.ppd<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TL;DR – emerge -va\u00a0net-print\/splix\u00a0and use custom ppd file Once upon a time my printer stopped working (of course when I want to print something urgently). The hardware was ok, working and not otherwise broken because connecting it to laptop did …<\/p>\n
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