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Installing Samsung Multifunction Printer


Ubuntu 11.10
Posted on April 3, 2012 by Leo Gaggl
Getting Multifunction Printers to scan under Linux can be a bit of a pain. The Samsung SCX-3400 I had
to install recently was no exception.
Here are the necessary steps I had to perform:
1. Ignore all Samsung Provided CDs and downloads. They do not work under Oneiric Ocelot (11.10)
2. Add Samsung Unified Driver repository http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/smfpv3.html
3. Install Samsung drivers and libsane-extras
4. Edit sane configuration files
vim /etc/apt/sources.list
#add the Samsung Unified Driver Repo
deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra

wget http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suldr.gpg
apt-key add suldr.gpg
apt-get update
apt-get install samsungmfp-data samsungmfp-driver samsungmfp-network samsungmfp-scanner samsungmf

The following sane config files need to be modified (add lines)


/etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf
# Samsung SCX-3400
usb 0x04e8 0x344f

/lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules
# Samsung SCX-3400

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ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="344f", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

The entries above are for the SCX-3400 model. To find the USB IDs for other models use
sane-find-scanner

Thanks to the following Ubuntu Forum participants for providing some the tips:
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/installation-samsung-scx/

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guest
View April 3, 2012
thanks, worked perfectly

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guest1
View May 2, 2012
yeahhhh works perfect, thx

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guest guest
View June 14, 2012
Worked just fine ! thanks

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Lucas Cambuim
View June 24, 2012
very nice!

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Monfraide
View July 1, 2012
Parfait !!! Merci beaucoup !!!

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hatti
View July 13, 2012
thank you very much.
scanner used to work on karmic koala without any tinkering,but there was a problem on lucid lynx.
now its fine!

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Rafael
View July 22, 2012
Thanks, worked perfectly!

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yves
View August 24, 2012
Un grand merci !

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Sergei
View September 12, 2012
Works great with scx-3405 Thanks a lot !

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Pat120
View October 2, 2012
Merci beaucoup cest parfait ! Trs bien dcrit

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vin
View October 27, 2012
Thank you very much!
It works fine with my new scx-3405fw.
Vin

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Gabriela
View December 17, 2012
Thank you very much !!! You really help me out as hell !! I almost thought about my purchase was
in vain. Thanks a lotreally! :D
*The happiest girl at this moment! Scanner recognize! Yuppieeee!
-> Ubuntu 12.4 user
-> Printer Multifunctional Samsung SCX-3405W

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Reiner
View February 4, 2013
Mnchen, 03.02.2013
Thank you very much!!!

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jan-Olof
View February 9, 2013
Hello!
If you have a Samsung CLX 3305 this works perfect as well. Only change cxs 3400 to clx 3300 and
344f to 3456
BR

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jan-Olof
View February 9, 2013
One more comment; I used Ubuntu 12.04.

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Simon
View April 4, 2013
Thanks, works!

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Reiner
View April 29, 2013
29.04.2013
Thanks you very much
Worked super

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alvaro hypolito
View May 26, 2013
does it work for ubuntu 10.04 and samsung scx-3405w?

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Leo Gaggl
View May 27, 2013
Not sure havent used 10.04 for a long time. All of my systems are on 12.04 or 13.04.

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View May 29, 2013


probado en ubuntu 12.04 y funciona ok

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Edwar Salazar
View May 29, 2013
funciona en ubuntu 12.04.2 impresora y scaner scx 3405w

25. Pasqualino Imbemba


View May 30, 2013
I did follow your procedure (using ubuntu 12.04 64 bit and Samsung SCX-3400) but have a partial
success: test page prints, as well as pure text documents. JPegs and documents containing
pictures however are not printed. I see the jobs ending in queue, but then they vanish and the
printer doesnt react.

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Pieter
View August 28, 2013
Just got Samsung SCX-3405W working on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Works great. Thank you so much for
this excellent post!

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George Pligor
View October 2, 2013
thanks it worked well so far. Really appreciate for sharing!

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Felix
View October 23, 2013
Thanks!

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Daniel
View November 1, 2013
Its an awesome easy to use guide. Worked first time.

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Marius
View November 19, 2013

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You are the man! Had to edit the sane configuration files to get it working. Great guide! Thank you
very much for saving me a ton of frustration.

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calogero
View December 23, 2013
Hello Sears
i installed Samsung SCX 3400 as these instructions, but the printer doesnt work when it is turn
on!
if i do a print when it is turn off, then i turn on the printer i get the prints
tha scanner works nicely
Can You help me?

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jhyfisher
View 11 months ago
Thanks, just what I needed, worked perfectly

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Giovanni
View 11 months ago
Great! Now my samsung printer work perfectly! greetings from Lecce!

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Bernd Adamowicz
View 9 months ago
Thanks a lot! Works great!

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bilka
View 8 months ago
thx ! worked on 12.04 too

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Soeldner
View 7 months ago
works Mint 17, thx

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Alisson
View 6 months ago
thanks, worked perfectly!
obrigado amigo, funcionou perfeitamente. Me salvou.

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Kees
View 1 month ago
Thanks for this guide, it allowed me to install my SCX-3400w printer flawlessly.

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