{"id":676,"date":"2010-08-01T19:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohanjith.net\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:49:51","slug":"samsung-ml-1640-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/samsung-ml-1640-on-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"Samsung ML-1640 on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my self a shiny new laser printer because the old Lexmark X1110 was getting old and giving little too many paper jams. I went with Samsung ML-1640 mainly because of it&#8217;s initial lower price, lower running costs and good reviews online. I had also read that the printer comes with Linux driver, that was one of the first I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>To much to my surprise as soon as I plugged the printer Ubuntu recognized the printer and installed it, with in few seconds without any clicks or key presses the printer was ready for printing. I never bothered testing on Windows 7 but I&#8217;m sure I would have had to install drivers (Samsung claims it takes only 4 clicks).<\/p>\n<p>However I ran to some trouble sharing the printer with Snow Leopard as the driver selected by Ubuntu needed to be used as a raw printer queue and I could get around how to set it up on Snow Leopard. Instead I flipped around the setup, I shared the printer as a raw printer queue and used the built in driver on Snow Leopard for the printer. I had to do the same for my notebook as well. Everything was working perfectly, finally \ud83d\ude42 . In the process I also figured out that Generic GDI driver works as long as the print job fits the printer memory (8 MB), if you send a larger job it will fail with nothing printed (but the printer receives the job).<\/p>\n<p>For anyone wondering, on Linux the driver used is (automatically selected by Ubuntu) is Samsung ML-1640, <a href=\"http:\/\/splix.ap2c.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SpliX<\/a> V. 2.0.0 , which covers all capabilities of the printer (may be except for toner level).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really happy with the printer, I think it was a very good purchase. I really like the idea the cartridge comes with a handle to push it into place. Then the fact that I can print the demo page by pressing and holding the reset\/cancel button on the printer to get the toner level and other printer details. Only thing I miss is fully duplex printing, but with the lower cost I don&#8217;t mind working upto the printer to feed the paper when the printer is done printing one side of the pages.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-like\" style=\"\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/samsung-ml-1640-on-linux.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=300&amp;action=like&amp;font=&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;locale=en_US\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:300px; height:30px\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my self a shiny new laser printer because the old Lexmark X1110 was getting old and giving little too many paper jams. I went with Samsung ML-1640 mainly because of it&#8217;s initial lower price, lower running costs and good reviews online. I had also read that the printer comes with Linux driver, that &#8230; <a title=\"Samsung ML-1640 on Linux\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/samsung-ml-1640-on-linux.html\" aria-label=\"More on Samsung ML-1640 on Linux\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[274,268,338,266,264,270,272],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-gdi","tag-laser","tag-linux","tag-printing","tag-samsung","tag-spl","tag-splix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lUHm-aU","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohanjith.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}