{"id":3092,"date":"2022-04-11T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:46:40","slug":"samsung-m2820-dw-laser-printer-install-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/blog\/samsung-m2820-dw-laser-printer-install-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung M2820-DW Laser Printer Install on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I first got my wireless printer from Samsung, it had no problems on Windows.  Ubuntu Linux 18 and 20 auto-discovered the printer, but when I tried to print a simple page on it, reams of paper came out, with just a few garbage characters on each page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The procedure outlined below worked for me.  I don&#8217;t even know whether they are optimum or not.  Would similar steps work for other printers, or even other Samsungs?  I don&#8217;t know, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"463\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3096\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung1.png 960w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung1-300x145.png 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung1-100x48.png 100w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung1-768x370.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Open Ubuntu Settings, and go to Devices -&gt; Printers.  Click the green <strong>Add<\/strong> button.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"447\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3095\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung2.png 447w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung2-287x300.png 287w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung2-96x100.png 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><figcaption>There might a a lot of printers auto-detected, or there might be only one.  Choose the one that looks like a serial number follwed by .local.  Click the green <strong>Add<\/strong> button.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"706\" height=\"579\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3094\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung3.png 706w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung3-300x246.png 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung3-100x82.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><figcaption>If the driver isn&#8217;t already on the system, this box may pop up.  Click <strong>Apply<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"506\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4-1024x506.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3093\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4-1024x506.png 1024w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4-300x148.png 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4-100x49.png 100w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4-768x380.png 768w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Samsung4.png 1094w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Point a browser at <strong>localhost:631<\/strong> , and choose the <strong>Printer<\/strong> tab.  Note that the driver reports itself as &#8220;driverless, cups-filters 1.20.2&#8221;.  On the Ubuntu 20 system, the filter version was 1.27.4.  The last printer on the list above is Raw.  It came up automatically, and is the one that prints garbage when things are sent to it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first got my wireless printer from Samsung, it had no problems on Windows. Ubuntu Linux 18 and 20 auto-discovered the printer, but when I tried to print a simple page on it, reams of paper came out, with just a few garbage characters on each page. The procedure outlined below worked for me. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/blog\/samsung-m2820-dw-laser-printer-install-on-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samsung M2820-DW Laser Printer Install on Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[149,355,354,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}