Hiya Till, thanks for your help so far. In the process of checking my PC according to the link you provided I figured out why my machine behaved in such an erratic way. My Sophos AV scanner blocked printer detection; after I deactivated Sophos the printer installed perfectly fine.
You need the Samsung ULD to install the printer under Ubuntu. Printing is still not possible -- I verified the symptoms on a different PC. Here is the output you requested. Cheers, Chris ** Attachment added: "usb_printer.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1584367/+attachment/4690243/+files/usb_printer.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584367 Title: Samsung printer automatically diabled; cannot print Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Samsung ML-1660 laser printer is found and installed, but cannot print as it is automatically disabled. CUPS error log is filled with the following: E [21/May/2016:10:55:13 -0600] [cups-deviced] PID 26623 (gutenprint52+usb) stopped with status 1! This behaviour is new in Xenial, it worked fine in Trusty. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1584367/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
