Common Linux Problems - Samsung Mono Laser Printer User Manual

Common Linux problems

Refer to Mac OS User's Guide that came with your computer for
further information on Mac OS error messages.
CONDITION
• Check if the printer driver is installed in your
The machine does
system. Open Unified Driver Configurator
not print.
and switch to the Printers tab in Printers
configuration window to look at the list of
available printers. Make sure that your
machine is displayed on the list. If not,
please, invoke Add new printer wizard to set
up your device.
• Check if the printer is started. Open Printers
configuration and select your machine on the
printers list. Look at the description in the
Selected printer pane. If its status contains
"(stopped)" string, please, press the Start
button. After that normal operation of the
printer should be restored. The "stopped"
status might be activated when some
problems in printing occurred.
• Check if your application has special print
option such as "-oraw". If "-oraw" is specified
in the command line parameter then remove
it to print properly. For Gimp front-end, select
"print" -> "Setup printer" and edit command
line parameter in the command item.
The problem is solved in AFPL Ghostscript v.
The machine does
8.52 or above. Download the latest version of
not print whole pages
AFPL Ghostscript from http://sourceforge.net/
and its output is half
projects/ghostscript/ and install it to solve this
page printed.
problem.
Please avoid changing print job parameters (via
I encounter error
LPR GUI, for example) while a print job is in
"Unable to open mfp
progress. Known versions of CUPS server
port device file!"
break the print job whenever print options are
when printing a
changed and then try to restart the job from the
document.
beginning. Since Unified Linux Driver locks mfp
port while printing, the abrupt termination of the
driver keeps the port locked and therefore
unavailable for subsequent print jobs. If this
situation occurred, please, try to release the
mfp port.
Refer to Linux User's Guide that came with your computer for further
information on Linux error messages.
41 _Troubleshooting
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