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Installing driver over the network

You must install the printer driver software for printing. The software includes drivers, applications, and other support programs.

Make sure that the network setup for your machine is completed. All applications should be closed on your computer before beginning installation.

Windows

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to the network and powered on. Also, your machine’s IP address should have been set.

  2. Insert the supplied software CD into your CD-ROM drive.

    If the installation window does not appear, click Start > All programs > Accessories > Run.

    X:\Setup.exe replacing “X” with the letter, which represents your CD-ROM drive and click OK.

    • For Windows 8

      If the installation window does not appear, from Charms, select Search > Apps and search for Run. Type in X:\Setup.exe, replacing “X” with the letter that represents your CD-ROM drive and click OK.

      If “Tap to choose what happens with this disc.” pop-up window appears, click the window and select Run Setup.exe.

    • For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

      If the installation window does not appear, type in X:\Setup.exe in Search input area from task bar, replacing “X” with the letter that represents your CD-ROM drive and press the Enter key.

  3. Review and accept the installation agreements in the installation window. Then, click Next.

  4. Select Network on the Printer Connection Type screen. Then, click Next.

  5. Follow the instructions in the installation window.

From the Windows 8 Start Screen

[Note]

  • The V4 driver is automatically downloaded from the Windows Update if your computer is connected to the Internet. Or you can manually download the V4 driver from Samsung website, www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or downloads.

  • You can download Samsung Printer Experience app from the Windows Store. You need have a Microsoft account to use the Windows Store.

    1. From Charms, select Search.

    2. Click Store.

    3. Search and click Samsung Printer Experience.

    4. Click Install.

  • If you install the driver using the supplied software CD, V4 driver is not installed. If you want to use the V4 driver in the Desktop screen, you can download from the Samsung website, www.samsung.com >find your product > Support or downloads.

  • If you want to install Samsung’s printer management tools, you need to install them using the supplied software CD.

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to the network and powered on. Also, your machine’s IP address should have been set.

  2. From Charms, select Settings > Change PC settings > Devices.

    [Note]

    For Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016

    From task bar, type in Devices and Printers in Search input area. Press the Enter key.

    OR

    From the Start () icon, select Settings > Devices > Devices and Printers.

  3. Click Add a device.

    Discovered machines will be shown on the screen.

  4. Click the model name or host name you wish to use.

    [Note]

    You can print a Network Configuration Report from the machine’s control panel that will show the current machine’s host name.

  5. The driver is automatically installed from the Windows Update.

Silent installation Mode

Silent installation mode is an installation method that does not require any user intervention. Once you start the installation, the machine driver and software are automatically installed on your computer. You can start the silent installation by typing /s or /S in the command window.

Command-line Parameters

Following table shows commands that can be used in the command window.

[Note]

Following command-line are effective and operated when command is used with /s or /S. But /h, /H or /? are exceptional commands that can be operated solely.

Command- line

Definition

Description

/s or/S

Starts silent installation.

Installs machine drivers without prompting any UIs or user intervention.

/p”<port name>” or/P”<port name>”

Specifies printer port.

[Note]

Network Port will be created by use of Standard TCP/IP Port monitor. For local port, this port must exist on system before being specified by command.

Printer port name can be specified as IP address, hostname, USB local port name, IEEE1284 port name or network path.

For example:

  • /p”xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” in where, “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” means IP address for network printer. /p”USB001”, /P”LPT1:”, /p”hostname”

  • /p"\\computer_name\shared_printer" or "\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shared_printer" in where, "\\computer_name\shared_printer" or "\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shared_printer" means the network path to the printer by entering two slashes, the computer name or local IP address of the PC sharing the printer, and then the share name of the printer.

/a”<dest_path>” or/A”<dest_path>”

Specifies destination path for installation.

[Note]

The destination path should be a fully qualified path.

Since machine drivers should be installed on the OS specific location, this command applies to only application software.

/n”<Printer name>” or/N”<Printer name>”

Specifies printer name. Printer instance shall be created as specified printer name.

With this parameter, you can add printer instances as your wishes.

/nd or/ND

Commands not to set the installed driver as a default machine driver.

It indicates installed machine driver will not be the default machine driver on your system if there are one or more printer drivers installed. If there is no installed machine driver on your system, then this option won’t be applied because Windows OS will set installed printer driver as a default machine driver.

/x or/X

Uses existing machine driver files to create printer instance if it is already installed.

This command provides a way to install a printer instance that uses installed printer driver files without installing an additional driver.

/up”<printer name>” or/UP”<printer name>”

Removes only specified printer instance and not the driver files.

This command provides a way to remove only specified printer instance from your system without effecting other printer drivers. It will not remove printer driver files from your system.

/d or/D

Uninstalls all device drivers and applications from your system.

This command will remove all installed device drivers and application software from your system.

/v”<share name>” or/V”<share name>”

Shares installed machine and add other available platform drivers for Point & Print.

It will install all supported Windows OS platform’s machine drivers to system and share it with specified <share name> for point and print.

/o or /O

Opens Printers and Faxes folder after installation.

This command will open Printers and Faxes folder after the silent installation.

/h, /H or /?

Shows Command-line Usage.

Mac

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your computer and powered on.

  2. Insert the supplied software CD into your CD-ROM drive.

  3. Select the CD-ROM volume that appears on Finder.

  4. Double-click the Install Software icon.

  5. Read the license agreement and check installation agreement button.

  6. Click Next.

  7. Select Network on the Printer Connection Type.

  8. Click Next.

  9. Follow the instructions in the installation window.

Linux

You need to download Linux software packages from the Samsung website to install the printer software (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

  1. Make sure that the machine is connected to your network and powered on. Also, your machine’s IP address should have been set.

  2. Copy Unified Linux Driver package to your system.

  3. Open Terminal program and go to the folder that you copied thepackage to.

  4. Extract the package.

  5. Move to uld folder.

  6. Execute ” ./install.sh“ command (If you are not logged in as root,execute the command with “sudo” as “sudo ./install.sh”).

  7. Proceed with installation.

  8. When installation finished, launch Printing utility (Go to System > Administration > Printing or execute “system-config-printer“ command in Terminal program).

  9. Click Add button.

  10. Select AppSocket/HP JetDirect and enter your machine’s IP address.

  11. Click Forward button and add it to your system.

Add a network printer

  1. Double-click the Unified Driver Configurator.

  2. Click Add Printer.

  3. The Add printer wizard window opens. Click Next.

  4. Select Network printer and click the Search button.

  5. The printer’s IP address and model name appears on list field.

  6. Select your machine and click Next.

  7. Enter the printer description and click Next.

  8. After the machine is added, click Finish.

UNIX

[Note]

  • Make sure your machine supports the UNIX operating system before installing the UNIX printer driver (see Operating System).

  • The commands are marked with “”, when typing the commands, do not type “”.

  • Some features and optional goods may not be available depending on model or country (see Operating System).

To use the UNIX printer driver, you have to install the UNIX printer driver package first, then setup the printer. You can download the UNIX printer driver package from the Samsung website (http://www.samsung.com > find your product > Support or Downloads).

Installing the UNIX printer driver package

The installation procedure is common for all variants of UNIX OS mentioned.

  1. From the Samsung website, download and unpack the UNIX Printer Driver package to your computer.

  2. Acquire root privileges.

    “su -”

  3. Copy the appropriate driver archive to the target UNIX computer.

    [Note]

    See administration guide of your UNIX OS for details.

  4. Unpack the UNIX printer driver package.

    For example, on IBM AIX, use the following commands.

    “gzip -d < enter the package name | tar xf -”

  5. the unpacked directory.

  6. Run the install script.

    “./install –i”

    install is the installer script file which is used to install or uninstall the UNIX Printer Driver package.

    Use “chmod 755 install” command to give the permission to the installer script.

  7. Execute the “. /install –c” command to verify installation results.

  8. Run “installprinter” from the command line. This will bring up the Add Printer Wizard window. Setup the printer in this window referring to the following procedures.

    [Note]

    On some UNIX OS, for example on Solaris 10, just added printers may not be enabled and/or may not accept jobs. In this case run the following two commands on the root terminal:

    “accept <printer_name>”

    “enable <printer_name>”

Uninstalling the printer driver package

[Note]

The utility should be used to delete the printer installed in the system.

  1. Run “uninstallprinter” command from the terminal.

    It will open the Uninstall Printer Wizard.

    The installed printers are listed in the drop-down list.

  2. Select the printer to be deleted.

  3. Click Delete to delete the printer from the system.

  4. Execute the “. /install –d” command to uninstall the whole package.

  5. To verify removal results, execute the “. /install –c” command.

To re-install it, use the command “. /install –i” to reinstall the binaries.

Setting up the printer

To add the printer to your UNIX system, run ‘installprinter’ from the command line. This will bring up the Add Printer Wizard window. Setup the printer in this window according to the following steps:

  1. Type the name of the printer.

  2. Select the appropriate printer model from the model list.

  3. Enter any description corresponding to the type of the printer in the Type field. This is optional.

  4. Specify any printer description in the Description field. This is optional.

  5. Specify the printer location in the Location field.

  6. Type the IP address or DNS name of the printer in the Device textbox for network-connected printers. On IBM AIX with jetdirect Queue type, only the DNS name is possible-numeric IP address is not allowed.

  7. Queue type shows the connection as lpd or jetdirect in the corresponding list box. Additionally, usb type is available on Sun Solaris OS.

  8. Select Copies to set the number of copies.

  9. Check the Collate option to receive copies already sorted.

  10. Check the Reverse Order option to receive copies in the reverse order.

  11. Check the Make Default option to set this printer as default.

  12. Click OK to add the printer.