[cups.general] Samsung CLP-325W printer under Fedora-18

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Fri Feb 15 01:24:45 PST 2013


Hello,

On Feb 14 16:25 Timothy Murphy wrote (excerpt):
> My Samsung CLP-325W printer is not working under Fedora-18 at the moment.
> I'm not clear if I have to install the Samsung Unified Driver on my laptop,
> or if it is sufficient just to locate and use an appropriate PPD file?

Regarding "is it sufficient just to use an appropriate PPD file" see
http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing

PostScript printers need only a PPD file which matches the particular model.

Other printers (i.e. non-PostScript printers) need printer driver software
plus a PPD file which matches exactly the particular driver.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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