Samsung ML1610 prints garbage in 8.10

[Ben Aceler]

Binary package hint: cups

The bug is for Ubuntu 8.10 only (cups 1.3.9) - not for any older version.

The bug is - when printing any document - from PDF, OpenOffice, Firefox, not matter, KDE or Gnome, printer make a garbage line on the left side of the paper. The rest of the image prints fine. Bug reproduces onto installed system (Ubuntu and kubuntu), LiveCD and x86_64 LiveCD (both - ubuntu).

After loading from 8.04 LiveCD, printer works fine - so this is not a printer problem.

[vinlos (vincenzo-losito)]

I can confirm it.

It's a driver problem.

[vinlos (vincenzo-losito)]

Even if I've updated cups to the newest version, the problem still persists.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

This has most probably to do with the switch to the new 2.0.0 version of SpliX. Therefore I am moving the bug to SpliX now.

Can you go to the following two pages

http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=splix
http://openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=splix2

and download the DEB packages of the two versions of the SpliX driver from there? Take care to download the packages for your system architecture and LSB 3.2.

Then install at first the driver version 2.0.0 rc2 (with "sudo dpkg -i ..."), remove your print queue(s) for your Samsung printer(s) and recreate them, selecting the driver entry in system-config-printer with "OpenPrinting". Now try again to print. Does the problem go away?

If not, try the same thing with version 1.1.1. Does this work?