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Use copy/paste to transfer the following command to the terminal:Ĭd Downloads & tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/uld*.tar.gzĤ. Usually the downloaded compressed file has landed in the folder Downloads. Hewlett Packard! That's probably because in 2017, HP has bought the Samsung printer division.ģ.

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But if that version doesn't suffice, for example because your printer is too new, then you can install the driver as follows:ĭownload the compressed Linux driver from the website of. Usually it isn't necessary to install it, because Linux Mint already contains a version of it. Samsung has produced a fine Linux driver for all its printers (including multifunctionals with a scanner feature): the Unified Linux Driver. A proprietary driver will probably be the solution.

First remove any current instance of your printer in the application Printers. In Linux Mint this has changed: you'll see asterisks when you type.

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Please note that in Ubuntu the password will remain invisible, not even asterisks will show when you type it, which is normal. Copy/paste the following command line into the terminal: (You can launch a terminal window like this: *Click*)ī. So in order to try a driver instead, you first need to remove IPP support from your computer. Is your printer/scanner not working (well)? The default driverless IPP takes priority as long as it’s installed drivers won’t be used. But sometimes you've got to do the following, in order to get your printer/scanner to work (properly):ġ. No drivers are needed installed drivers are not being used. Communication with the printer/scanner is being done through a standard protocol called IPP. Printers and scanners are detected and added automatically. Starting with version 21, Linux Mint features driverless printing and scanning. Doesn't it work (well)? Then read on.ĭefault: driverless printing/scanning with IPP You can do it like this:Ĭonnect your printer to your computer by means of a USB cable (even when you intend to use it as a network printer later on: for initial installation a USB cable is often needed). From there, you can crop and/or clean up the pages more before you save it to PDF.Nowadays, it's easy to install a Samsung printer, scanner or multifunctional in Linux Mint. Once you tweak your settings to your liking, click Scan and you will have all your pages loaded in the app. You might want to play with the white and black threshold filters depending on what you are scanning: Then navigate to Optional Equipment and set ADF Mode to Duplex and make sure ADF Auto Scan is checked:Īfter that, it has some nice post-processing options provided via unpaper and tesseract: In order to get duplex scanning working properly, I had to make sure the following settings were set under Page Options:

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Run the following to get the app installed with its dependencies: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr sudo apt-get install unpaper WorkflowĪfter opening gscan2pdf, click the Scan button which opens a scan dialog very similar to the one Adobe Acrobat uses. In order to get past this bug, I had to make sure I was using gscan2pdf’s PPA in order to get the latest version. Under the covers, it uses unpaper and tesseract for cleaning up and OCRing the scans respectively. I’ve been using gscan2pdf to replace my Acrobat workflow.

If the scanner still doesn’t show up, you may have to reboot.

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Go back to the original search results page and download the “iscan plugin package.” Accept the agreement and download and run the esci-interpreter-gt-s80_0.2.1-1_b package.Īfter that, you should be able to use any scanner application with your scanner. This was the part I missed on my first go around. If you try to run the packaged scanner software, Image Scan!, now, it will give you the error:Ĭould not send command to scanner. The FAQ (link at bottom of that page) states you need to install the data package first and then the core package (libltdl7 for Ubuntu >= 8.10). From there, accept the agreement and download and run the following in order: Search GT-S50 and download the “core package & data package” first. I’ve outlined the steps below.Įpson provides a linux driver for the scanner that you need to install.

This thread helped me out the most when I was trying to get this working. It just took me a little bit to get my workflow setup with a different set of software. Turn scanner on, load document, click scan in Acrobat - out pops a nice optimized OCRd PDF. Back when I was using Windows, I used to use Adobe Acrobat to scan all my documents into PDF. I’m a bit anal when it comes to digitizing all of my important paperwork.