DebianAMD64 and Samsung ML1740 (or othere printers)

Today, M. Aurélien Croc, the author of Splix, informed me that a new version of Splix, 0.0.2, is now usable in 64-bit.

Of course I am happy because now I am no longer limited to submitting 4294967296 documents to the spooler; now I can submit 18446744073709551616 documents at a time. I mean why else would you even bother running a spooler in a 64-bit environment? (I kid).

Packages needed:

libcupsys2-dev
libcupsimage2-dev



/tmp/splix-0.0.2 $ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/src'
g++ -O2 `cups-config --cflags` -I../include -c -o rastertospl2.o rastertospl2.cpp
g++ -O2 `cups-config --cflags` -I../include -c -o raster.o raster.cpp
g++ `cups-config --ldflags` -lcups -lcupsimage -o rastertospl2 spl2.o printer.o band.o compress.o rastertospl2.o raster.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/ppd'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/ppd'


/tmp/splix-0.0.2 $ sudo make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/src'
install -m 755 -s rastertospl2 `cups-config --serverbin`/filter
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/ppd'
install -d -m 755 `cups-config --datadir`/model/samsung
for filename in ml1510 ml1520 ml1610 ml1710 ml1740 ml1750 ml2010 ml2150 ml2250 ml2550; do \
install -m 644 $filename.ppd `cups-config --datadir`/model/samsung;\
for lang in fr it de; do \
install -m 644 $filename$lang.ppd `cups-config --datadir`/model/samsung;\
done; \
done \

make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/splix-0.0.2/ppd'

--- Everything is done! Have fun ---





The files installed are:


/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertospl2
/usr/share/cups/model/samsung/*.ppd (among them is ml1740.ppd)


We can add the printer from cups's web interface (typically found at http://localhost:631). When prompted for printer model, just provide the ppd (in my case it is /usr/share/cups/model/samsung/ml1740.ppd).


(originally from http://microjet.ath.cx/WebWiki/2006.11.17_DebianAMD64_and_SamsungML1740_Part2.html)