Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3784 mails)

[jk05308 <jk05308@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 October 2001 01:24, Roger L.S. Griffiths BSc (Hons) wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Oct 2001 7:01 pm, jk05308 wrote:
> > Don't.
> > It won't work.
>
> I am not sure about that, read on.
>
> > It is a GDI printer.   It won't work under lpdold, and with CUPS
> > it won't work unless it is listed when you do "gs -h", which list
> > the supported printers in the GhostScript gs_lib file,. I
> > recently returned a Samsung ML4500 for that very reason.
>
> I have a Samsung ML4600 and have it working under Linux fine. YaST
> CUPS Configuration utility provided with SuSE 7.2 has the Samsung
> ML4500 listed despite it being GDI.

YaST2 pulls the mfgr name and model number from the printer bios, but
it fails to recognize the printer regardless.  I, too, am running a fully installed
SuSE 7.2 and when I do a 'gs -h' on GhostScript (where the driver actually
is) the ML4500 is NOT listed.
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/ke_printer-gdi.html


>
> > On Sunday 28 October 2001 11:39, Sean Akers wrote:
> > > I'm on the verge of buying a Samsung ML6060 laser printer. I
> > > can't see any reason why it won't work with Linux but I thought
> > > I'd better check it out for any gotchas before parting with my
> > > cash. So is anyone using one of these and if so, how are you
> > > getting on with it ? I have Suse 7.0 and 7.2 running on my
> > > systems.
>
> If you use YaST CUPS Configuration utility you will notice that it
> supports the ML6000/ML6100, assuming the ML6060 is a member of the
> ML6000 series I would think it is supported. According to the
> Simply Computers catalog the ML6060 is a ML6000 series printer.
>
> TTFN
>
> Roger