[sclug] Samsung ML1510 printer and Debian

[John Stumbles]

I'm going crazy here. My Samsung ML 1510 printer Just Worked (tm) with 
whatever distro I was using when I first got it, and has gone on Just 
Working through changes of machine, distro (I think) and version. I'm on 
whatever is currently stable (Lenny?).

Yesterday I fiddled with the settings in kde control panel to try to 
make the printer accessible over the LAN to my sprog's windoze (<ptui!>) 
machine and borked printing locally. Attempting to get things working 
again I planned to delete and reinstall the printer ... well the first 
bit went OK but the gui add-printer wizard doesn't see any 
locally-attached printer. http://localhost:631/ doesn't see any local 
printers either.

A bit of STFW suggested installing printconf, which says:

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Configuring Samsung ML-1510 on usb:/dev/usb/lp0 with splix driver as 
queue "ml1510".

There is neither a custom PPD file nor the driver database entry 
contains sufficient data to build a PPD file.
	
Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
If printconf was unable to install all of your printers, please visit 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for printer information and support from
fellow users.

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find -xdev / -name '*.ppd*'
finds a load of drivers in
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-QL-5100A-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2151NPS-Postscript.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2150PS-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-7000N-lj5gray.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-85-ljet4.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-7300-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-85-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2150-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2151N-ljet4d.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1750-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1450PS-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2151NPS-ljet4d.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-4500-gdi.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2150PS-ljet4d.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-7300N-ljet4.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2010-gdi.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-7000-lj5gray.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-4600-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-QL-5100A-ljet4.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1430-gdi.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2551N-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2150PS-Postscript.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1250-lj5gray.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2152W-pxlmono.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-4600-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-2550-lj4dith.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1000-gdi.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1010-gdi.ppd.gz
/usr/share/ppd/foomatic-rip/openprinting-gs-builtin/Samsung/Samsung-ML-6000-ljet4.ppd.gz

  - note, no 1510 - so how did it ever work?

There's this splix driver, but no indication how to configure and use this.

I am completely out of my depth here! Any help?


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John Stumbles                                       http://yaph.org.uk
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