Hi anyone got a SAMSUNG SCX-4200 PRINTER working with a Mac ?

Hi has anyone managed to get a Samsung scx-4200 printer working with a mac?
2011 driver was the last driver update for mac i hear, downloaded tried a couple but no luck!!!

okay, from what I've read, samsung driver support lies with Apple and not Samsung, so if you can, do a software update
you can try here, apparently, for something that sorta works with your printer
http://www.samsung.com/nl/support/model/SCX-4623FN/SEE
other than that, Gutenprint maybe?
for scanning, I don't know, maybe vuescan
sorry, the crystal ball has gone darkk......
John b

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localhost - - [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] "POST /printers/Samsung-4200 HTTP/1.1" 200 1312 Create-Job successful-ok
localhost - - [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] "POST /printers/Samsung-4200 HTTP/1.1" 200 12353 Send-Document successful-ok
localhost - - [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 310 Set-Job-Attributes successful-ok
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Samsung-4200 9 l33t [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] 1 1 - localhost Untitled A4 -
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E [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Unable to read response header - short read
E [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Unable to open printer (read failure)!
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] The following messages were recorded from 20:37:12 to 20:37:12
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Adding start banner page "none".
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Queued on "Samsung-4200" by "l33t".
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] File of type application/pdf queued by "l33t".
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Setting job-hold-until to no-hold
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Adding end banner page "none".
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Job released by user.
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] job-sheets=none,none
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[0]="Samsung-4200"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[1]="9"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[2]="l33t"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[3]="Untitled"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[4]="1"
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D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] argv[6]="/private/var/spool/cups/d00009-001"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[0]="<CFProcessPath>"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[1]="CUPS_CACHEDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/cache"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[2]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[3]="CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/doc/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[4]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[5]="CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/private/var/spool/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/libexec/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[7]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/private/etc/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[8]="CUPS_STATEDIR=/private/etc/cups"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[9]="HOME=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[10]="PATH=/usr/libexec/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[11]="[email protected]"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[12]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.6"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[13]="TMPDIR=/private/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[14]="USER=root"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[15]="CUPS_SERVER=/private/var/run/cupsd"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[16]="CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[17]="IPP_PORT=631"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[18]="CHARSET=utf-8"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[19]="LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[20]="APPLE_LANGUAGE=en-US"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[21]="PPD=/private/etc/cups/ppd/Samsung-4200.ppd"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[22]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[23]="CONTENT_TYPE=application/pdf"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[24]="DEVICE_URI=dnssd://Samsung%20SCX-4200%20Series._riousbprint._tcp.loca l."
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[25]="PRINTER_INFO=Samsung-scx4200"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[26]="PRINTER_LOCATION=printer123"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[27]="PRINTER=Samsung-4200"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[28]="CUPS_FILETYPE=document"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] envp[29]="FINAL_CONTENT_TYPE=printer/Samsung-4200"
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D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Started filter /Library/Printers/Samsung/SCX-4200/rastertosec (PID 1760)
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D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] STATE: +connecting-to-device
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Resolving "Samsung SCX-4200 Series", regtype="_riousbprint._tcp", domain="local."...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Looking for printer...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] `/private/var/spool/cups/d00009-001' has 1 pages.
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] cgpdftoraster - opened PPD file "/private/etc/cups/ppd/Samsung-4200.ppd"...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] cgpdftoraster: size->width = 595, size->length = 842, size->top = 829.5, size->bottom = 12.5, size->left = 12.5, size->right = 582.5
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D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] cgpdftoraster - languageLevel = 3, mediaBox.size.width = 595, mediaBox.size.height = 842
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] skipBytesPerRow = 2
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] band width = 4750, bytesPerRow = 4752, band height = 2206, height = 6808
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] context width = 4750, height = 2206, bitsPerComponent = 8, bitsPerPixel = 8, bytesPerRow = 4752, bitmapInfo = 0, resolution = (600.000000, 600.000000)
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] NOT using display list
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] PAGE: 1 1
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 0% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 7% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 14% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 22% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 29% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 36% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 44% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 51% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 58% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 66% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 73% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 80% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 88% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printing page 1, 95% complete...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] cgpdftoraster: bytes written for sheet 1 = 32338000
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Ready to print.
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Resolved as "riousbprint://Time-Capsule-d99f2b.local.:10000/Samsung%20SCX-4200%20Series%208 T66BACPB13615P."...
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D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Executing backend "/usr/libexec/cups/backend/riousbprint"...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] STATE: +connecting-to-device
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Looking up "Time-Capsule-d99f2b.local."...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Connecting to Time-Capsule-d99f2b.local.:10000
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Connecting to printer...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Connected to 0.0.0.6:10000 (IPv4)...
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Set job-printer-state-message to "Unable to read response header - short read", current level=ERROR
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Backend returned status 1 (failed)
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] Printer stopped due to backend errors; please consult the error_log file for details.
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] End of messages
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] printer-state=5(stopped)
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] printer-state-message="Unable to open printer (read failure)!"
D [30/May/2011:20:37:12 +0300] [Job 9] printer-state-reasons=paused

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Hi,
Some months ago I got a Samsung SCX-3200 mono multifunction printer. I installed samsung unified driver from AUR I think it was v3 and printer worked.
After the driver got updated to v4 I think my problems started. Sometimes when printing a document I only got pages with garbage characters in the first line on the whole page. Recently I am unable to print anything, always getting the same result, smileys, hearts etc on the first line. printing test page is the same.
I installed windows to another HDD in my desktop computer and no printing issue occurred. Also I installed samsung unified driver to another computer (running Arch), used the same USB cable, but garbage text was all I got.
Then I tried the official samsung package / installer and everything was the same.
Unfortunately there's no samsung unified driver 3 package in AUR anymore.
Please help me get my printer back.
Last edited by siriusb (2012-09-09 09:55:51)

Hi,
test if the following PKGBUILD works for you. You need the files 99_smfpautoconf.rules and samsungUDC.desktop from the aur package samsung-unified-driver.
pkgname=samsung-unified-driver
pkgver=3.00.90
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Unified Linux Driver for Samsung printers and scanners."
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.samsung.com"
license=('custom:samsung')
depends=('libstdc++5' 'libtiff' 'cups' 'ghostscript' 'sane')
conflicts=samsungmfp-configurator-qt4
options=(!strip)
source=("http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/UnifiedLinuxDriver-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
'99_smfpautoconf.rules' 'samsungUDC.desktop')
sha1sums=('95de115a32399392cf3e50837c445f277cb3fdb6'
'29ee51d7bcb2541967f34c36c72ac62ecc621a1e'
'e2e337d2e22cab41071e5af585f04dcf9e779c7b')
if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
CARCHCUSTOM="x86_64"
LIBDIRCUSTOM="lib64"
else
CARCHCUSTOM="i386"
LIBDIRCUSTOM="lib"
fi
build() {
# mpf
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib"
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
install -d "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/"
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/libmfp.so.1.0.1" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libmfp.so.1.0.1"
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/opt/smfp-common/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/libnetsnmp.so.10.0.2" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libnetsnmp.so.10.0.2"
install -m 644 "${srcdir}/99_smfpautoconf.rules" "${pkgdir}/etc/udev/rules.d/99_smfpautoconf.rules"
# cups
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter"
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/backend/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/etc/cups/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/samsung/cms"
install -m 444 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/samsung/cms/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/cms/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/ppd/*.ppd
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/cups/backend/mfp" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/backend/mfp"
install -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/cups/filter/*
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/cups/filter/smfpautoconf" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/smfpautoconf"
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/etc/cups/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_root/etc/cups/*
# sane
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sane/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/etc/sane.d/dll.d"
install -m 644 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_root/etc/sane.d/smfp.conf" "${pkgdir}/etc/sane.d/smfp.conf"
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1" \
"${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sane/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/"
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_opt/bin/netdiscovery" "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/netdiscovery"
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/"
install -m 755 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/at_root/usr/sbin/smfpd" "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin/smfpd"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/"
install -m 644 "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/OEM.ini" "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/OEM.ini"
#create symbolic links
# mpf
cd "${pkgdir}/usr/lib"
ln -s ./libmfp.so.1.0.1 ./libmfp.so.1
ln -s ./libmfp.so.1.0.1 ./libmfp.so
cd "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sane"
ln -s ./libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 ./libsane-smfp.so.1
ln -s ./libsane-smfp.so.1 ./libsane-smfp.so
echo "smfp" >> "${pkgdir}/etc/sane.d/dll.d/smfp"
chmod 644 "${pkgdir}/etc/sane.d/dll.d/smfp"
# samsungmfp-configurator-qt4
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/help/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/images/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/tr/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/ui/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/utils/"
install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
install -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/qt4/at_opt/bin/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/qt4/at_opt/lib/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/eula.htm
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Common_LINUX
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Common_LINUX_Script
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Printer_LINUX
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Printer_LINUX-Script
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Scanner_LINUX
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/VERSION-Scanner_LINUX-Script
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/help/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/help/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/images/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/images/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/utils/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_opt/share/utils/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/tr/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/qt4/at_opt/share/tr/*
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/share/ui/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/qt4/at_opt/share/ui/*
install -m 644 "${startdir}/samsungUDC.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/samsungUDC.desktop"
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/" ${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/${CARCHCUSTOM}/qt4/at_root/opt/smfp-common/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/*
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/Configurator" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/SamsungConfigurator"
chmod 555 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/SamsungConfigurator"
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/ImageManager" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/SamsungImageManager"
chmod 555 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/SamsungImageManager"
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/Samsung/mfp/bin/smfpscan" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/smfpscan"
chmod 555 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/smfpscan"
mkdir -p "${srcdir}/libtiff/"
tar xzf "${srcdir}/cdroot/Linux/noarch/libtiff-3-${CARCHCUSTOM}.tar.gz" -C "${srcdir}/libtiff"
install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/opt/Samsung/mfp/lib/" ${srcdir}/libtiff/usr/${LIBDIRCUSTOM}/*

Looking for a samsung scx 4200 driver

I'm looking for a printer/scanner driver for the samsung scx 4200...
Looked at the samsung website and downloaded the driver from their site but still did not work..
Tried to contact samsung on many occasions but they have not been the best of help..
The drivers say they install correctly, but then when i go to print get the error that there was an installation error..
Thanks in advance
.

HI,
This may be a problem. That model is not listed here. Mac OS X v10.6: Printer and scanner software
Nor is there a GIMP available. http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/pSupportedPrinters.php
Try here. Mac OS X v10.6: Mac 101 - Printing - Troubleshooting
I noticed on the Samsung site they offer a Universal Driver but only for Windows. Not Mac friendly for sure.
Carolyn

Hi anyone got a SAMSUNG SCX-4200 PRINTER working with a Mac ?

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