I just tried again with a fresh install of Precise with my 620ND. By default the foomatic driver is picked and it defaults to monochrome. I tried printing this bug page as my test. I don't know if the blame is with Chrome or the driver, but it behaves as though the top and bottom margins are 0 but I did get the output. system-config-printer shows a red exclamation mark and claims a media jam even though there isn't one. If I switch to colour mode then the printer machinery whirs a lot, the display says "Ready" and nothing comes out.
I went to change the driver. Only foo2qpdl is listed for this model and the ones around it. printer-driver-splix is installed and its package description claims "... and color (CLP-5xx, CLP-6xx) models are supported". I went to the 660ND selection in the printer driver selector and picked the pxlcolor option. The page took an extraordinary amount of time to print (many minutes) from Chrome. eog was relatively instant but bizarrely it printed on the back of the paper so the printer printed a blank page, sucked it back in through the duplexer and then printed it. Libreoffice didn't have the delay issues either. In the generic driver section there is also Gutenprint offered for PCL 6, but that did not support colour. The firmware bugs that result in botched large single colour text being the wrong colour or coming out white are still exposed when using PCL 6, but not present when using PCL 5c. The final conclusion is that to use this printer you need to choose PCL 5c or PCL 6. PCL 5c: Prints large coloured text fine, but takes a long time to print images (and possibly lower quality too) PCL 6: Messes up large coloured text, prints images quickly Also you will always have an icon indicating there is a paper jam even though there isn't. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898986 Title: Printing does not work on Samsung CLP-610ND To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foo2zjs/+bug/898986/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
