[SOLVED] Samsung SCX-4600 multifunction scanner

Question

Hi everyone,
anybody could make this (or a similiar) scanner work under Arch? I've tried almost everything following previous messages here and there (ubuntu) but no luck, always the same bad result: sane-find-scanned detects my scanner model (installed last sane-dev from AUR) but "scanimage -L" never finds a single thing...
Any help is greatly appreciated...
UPDATE: Ok, finally is working, here are the steps performed, may can be helpful for someone else (soon may be I'll update the package to do this automatically, I asume that sane is already installed:
Download  Samsung Linux Unified Driver, untar
Copy cdroot/Linux/<my-arch>/at_root/usr/lib<my-arch>/libmfp.so.1.0.1 to /usr/lib and cdroot/Linux/<my-arch>/at_root/usr/lib<my-arch>/libsane-smfp.so.1.0.1 to /usr/lib/sane
Symlink both libraries in their own directory as <lib>.so and <lib>.so.1
Copy cdroot/Linux/noarch/at_root/etc/sane.d/smfp.conf to /etc/sane.d, add the word smfp as a last line of /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
Install libstdc++5
Edit /lib/udev/rules.d/53-sane.rules and add an entry for the printer, then restart, near the other Samsung printers is a good place:
# Samsung SCX-4600 (single line)
ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3433", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"
At this point, the scanner should appear with "scanimage -L" (as root), to make it work for every user add them to the lp group, you can ignore the scanner group
Lesson learned remembered: ldd is your friend
Last edited by RkG (2010-10-29 20:59:31)

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for the above link.
My issue is that I can't get anything to physically print. My Macbook can find the printer, it seems to send data to it ok, even the printer itself says that its receiving data and sounds like its warming up to start printing - but then it just stops and lists the job as completed, even though nothing has actually been printed. I also can't see where the ScanThru scanning software.
I can print/scan fine from my old PC laptop - how do I get this to work on my Mac?
Thanks (from an inexperienced Mac user)