7 Using Your Printer in Linux
You can use your machine in a Linux environment.
Installing the MFP Driver
System Requirements
This chapter includes:
•Getting Started
•Installing the MFP Driver
•Using the MFP Configurator
•Configuring Printer Properties
•Printing a Document
•Scanning a Document
Supported OS
•Redhat 7.1 and above
•Linux Mandrake 8.0 and above
•SuSE 7.1 and above
•Caldera OpenLinux 3.1 and above
•Turbo Linux 7.0 and above
•Slackware 8.1 and above
Recommended Hardware Requirements
•Pentium IV 1 GHz or higher
•RAM 256 MB or higher
•HDD 1 GB or higher
Getting Started
The supplied
Samsung’s MFP driver package contains printer and scanner drivers, providing the ability to print documents and scan images. The package also delivers powerful applications for configuring your machine and further processing of the scanned documents.
NOTES:
•It’s also necessary to claim swap partition of 300 MB or larger for working with large scanned images.
•The Linux scanner driver supports the optical resolution at maximum. Please refer to the scanner and copy section of Specifications in your Printer User’s Guide.
•You can check your printer name in the supplied CD- ROM.
After the driver is installed on your Linux system, the driver package allows you to monitor a number of MFP devices via fast ECP parallel ports and USB simultaneously. The acquired documents can then be edited, printed on the same local MFP or network printers, sent by
The MFP driver package is supplied with a smart and flexible installation program. You don't need to search for additional components that might be necessary for the MFP software: all required packages will be carried onto your system and installed automatically; this is possible on a wide set of the most popular Linux clones.
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Using Your Printer in Linux
Software
•Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher
•Glibc 2.2 or higher
•CUPS
•SANE
