When installing a Samsung printer, there are a number of sources for the driver.
1. Puppy comes with Gutenprint drivers for a few Samsung models.
2. Some older models can be installed using a built-in Ghostscript driver. See the example here.
3. Samsung has released the next generation of their Linux driver. I have converted this into a PET that supports both the mono and colour models. Download the samsung_print-uld.1.0.29.pet here. Click the small green DOWNLOAD box.
Samsung colour laser printers have an optional CMS colour correction database from here.. This is a large package. But once your printer is installed, go to /usr/share/cups/model/uld-samsung/cms and delete all the files that do not apply to your model.
FeodorF has tested this driver with a CLP-365, which worked properly without CMS. However, Feodor reports significant improvement in colour quality when using CMS.
This driver requires more testing with colour models. PLEASE provide feedback - either success or failure.
4. Some Samsung colour laser printers can be installed using the foo2xxx driver package from here. But based on limited testing, it appears that the driver in #3 is superior.
5. Samsung provides a Unified Driver package on their website. Some versions do not work properly in Puppy and some old ones break CUPS!
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The Samsung Linux driver also has scanner support. I have packaged the scanner components here. Click the small green DOWNLOAD box. It should work with all USB models in both Xsane and PeasyScan.
At powerup, make sure that you give the scanner enough time to initialize. Otherwise it may not work properly.
This scanner driver also works with Samsung networked units and has been tested successfully by smokey01 with a C1860 Series model. It requires the printer's IP address. From the command line, run
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xsane "smfp:net;aaa.bbb.cc.dd"
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export URI="smfp:net;aaa.bbb.cc.dd"