Installing a Samsung ML-2525W on Linux

by Martin Monperrus
I've just successfully installed a printer Samsung ML-2525W on two Linux machines (Debian and Ubuntu). Here is what I did.

  1. Connect the printer to a router with an Ethernet cable
  2. Found its DHCP IP with avahi-discover
  3. Set up the wireless using the web interface of the printer
  4. Download the printer driver UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.92.tar.gz at http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/ML-2525W/XAA
  5. Extract the driver: $ tar xvzf UnifiedLinuxDriver_0.92.tar.gz
  6. Run install.sh: $ cd cdroot/Linux && sh install.sh
  7. Follow the graphical installation process (see screenshots at http://goo.gl/JHPxb)
On one of the installations, the graphical process of install.sh failed at the end (no driver proposed). However, setting up the printer with the standard CUPS interface at http://localhost:631 was OK, the driver was actually installed in CUPS.

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