I bought a Samsung ml-1410 (in europe) because it was cheap(140€) and rated perfect at linuxprinting.org. However, the printer receives jobs and prints them out but everything is in really bad quality. I've tried the ppd available at linuxprinting.org under SUSE 9. I've also tried Mandrake 10 with the new foomatics that is supposed to support this printer with the same results.

Being listed as perfect, I'd think someone has gotten this thing working. There is also a "driver" provided by Samsung for linux on the disk. I couldn't get that to work, though.

Has anyone had any luck with the new line of cheap Samsung laser printers? I know that the GDI printers are flaky but it according to linuxprinting it should work.

Thanks,
Chris

What is going on with what is printed? spaced pixelation, wrong characters being printed, what?

You should retry to reset page properties and in Linux usually the print quality is set to low, until you change that.

It basically looks as if everything is printed in Draft quality. When I print using the draft mode it gets even worse.

Do you mean resetting page properties in a program or CUPS. I've tried every combination of settings that is available in CUPS.

Chris

Just installed an ML1410 Samsung printer on my debian 3.0 Woody.
The installation program on the Driver CD from Samsung did not work.

After following the installation instructions from www.linuxprinting.org using CUPS, it worked,
but I received very poor quality of the printouts.

When printing from Windows operating system, the quality was better.

Reason in my case was that the 'ppd' - file for the printer (under Linux) was somehow broken.
I have no idea why.
The line length inside the file was limited to 72 characters.
All lines longer than 72 characters ended with &&.
After manual repair , I had more options in the configuration setup for the printer.
Now I could change the toner density and some other options, which have been missing before.

This improved the quality of the printouts.


Meinrad