My Samsung SCX-4200 MFP now working

Posted on April 26, 2009 | Category: Printers & Scanners, SCX-4200

I managed to get my Samsung SCX-4200 MFP running…. (see previous post)
The key was to gksudo nautilus to change permissions (press Alt-F2 and type gksudo nautilus), so I could uninstall the Samsung driver.
Then I re-installed it over splix2 (see here)
The scanner was now producing root-free scans, but the printer didn’t work. At least the Samsung Configurator was available.
I had another look at Administration/Printing, then took the plunge and
deleted the printer there, the clp-300, then clicked add new printer, found the scx-4200 driver on Ubuntu’s printer list, and hey presto, I’ve a fully working machine.

So simple when you know how.

The Configurator looks a bit clunky in comparison to the Windows version, and as I mentioned before, does not include ocr, as does the windows version. I’ll be coming back to the question of ocr shortly.

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One Response to “My Samsung SCX-4200 MFP now working”

1. Tamas Dobozy Says:
   July 14th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

   Hi–

   I’m having the same problem. Is there any way you could spell out your post a little more step-by-step? For instance, I go gksudo nautilus, and get a bunch of files in a window, but then what? I really need this printer/scanner to work.

   Thanks,
   Tamas Dobozy

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