We recently bougth a new printer (Samsung CLP-510) which is connected to a Windows computer. Now, although Linux is officially "supported" by Samsung the drivers are real crap (I can only print in color, printing is really slow, ...). The driver was a real pain in the ass to install but somehow I managed to get the printer working in Gnome applications and OpenOffice but when I print from applications like leafpad (GTK+) or JBuilder (Java) , all pages end up empty. This is probably some stupid configuration issue, but it's the first time I've connected my Linux box to a printer so I have no idea where to look for this. Could someone please help me out with this one?

You might try checking out linuxprinting.org/. They might have some good information on this. Is this a CUPS printer?

slight

I feel your pain, Akuji!

About 1.5 years ago I was in an office that purchased a CLP-500 (against my recommendation of a cheaper HP laser grr). I almost went bald trying to get this printer to play nice (both with Linux and Windows). I cannot remember precisely how I got it working -- and I'm not sure I want to remember , but you may try finding the .ppd file for the printer. It should be located somewhere under the installation directory for the Samsung driver. Copy that to /etc/cups/ppd/. You can then use the KDE control centre to install a new printer, specifying a specific .ppd file (don't believe this is possible in the CUPS web interface).

It seems the thread over at linuxprinting.org for the CLP-500 has been added to since I last read it, you may find some of the comments there useful.

Good luck (you'll need it!), I'll grep my long-term memory...

Cheers,

odevans