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I installed samsung-unified-printer-driver over a previously installed original Samsung linux driver and then one by one tried to remove/rename components from the latter, after each step removing and reinstalling the printer (to make sure the problem is not caused on printer configuration time only, which a later test confirmed is not the case: it's a print-time issue). Renaming the uld-samsung link to /opt/samsung/printer/share/ppd in /usr/share/ppd did not make a difference, however subsequently renaming /opt/samsung to /opt/samsung.off did bring up the incorrect color palette, as did renaming/usr/opt/samsung/printer or renaming /opt/smfp-common or /opt/smfp-common/printer or just /opt/smfp-common/printer/lib (the latter just contains a single file, libscmssc.so). Renaming /opt/smfp-common/printer/bin does not have an effect. So it appears that /opt/smfp-common/printer/lib/libscmssc.so as well as /opt/samsung/printer (which essentially contains only share/ppd including share/ppd/cms) are hardcoded somewhere. Indeed a strings on rastertospl yields the first path. (yes, lacking the source code sucks)

@gschwarz Can you try to check what else is different when using the Samsung installer? I'll happily apply a fix if you can isolate what causes the difference in behaviour.

Did so, but it does not make any difference (nor did ln -s suld/cms cms in /usr/share/ppd instead)

@gschwarz Can you try if it works correctly if you move the cms folder directly under /usr/share/ppd:

$ sudo mv /usr/share/ppd/suld/cms /usr/share/ppd/

I tried this package with a Samsung CLP-315 (which is detected as Samsung CLP-310) connected via USB. On the printout black portions look blurred because they apparently have some gray or blue "shadow" printed underneath them. Also magenta looks likely more like red. I directly installed the driver from HP via its INSTALL script: https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software13/printers/SS/SL-C4010ND/uld_V1.00.39_01.17.tar.gz Now things print fine with the correct colors. I did a diff on the pstosecps, rastertospl, ppd and the cts files and found no difference. Nevertheless I suspect that the color profile is not found or not correctly applied (maybe because it is installed in a different location than with Samsung's INSTALL?)

@abd This is an arch linux package for the Samsung Unified Linux Driver for printers and scanners. Not sure if you are trying to connect arch linux to a Samsung smartphone, or print from a Samsung smart phone, but this is not supporting either of those things.

How to more specifically obtain Samsung USB driver intended for connection with all Samsung smartphones ?

Is this really it ?

Can you please give each of your package of your metapackage a distinctive individual $pkgdesc?

E.G.:

• samsung-unified-driver-common → "Unified Linux Driver for Samsung printers and scanners (common files)."
• samsung-unified-driver-printer → "Unified Linux Driver for Samsung printers."
• samsung-unified-driver-scanner → "Unified Linux Driver for Samsung scanners."
• samsung-unified-driver → "Unified Linux Driver for Samsung printers and scanners. (Metapackage)".

Regards!

This works just fine thank you for your contributions!

My Xpress M2020W works perfectly, thanks!!