SAMSUNG ML-2160 Series / Modell SAMSUNG ML-2165

Support Printers
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I am new at manjaro and I am impressed by the user friendlyness, but I cannot print on my “SAMSUNG ML-2160 Series”, is there a chance to find out which one of the available drinter-driver are compatible to this printer?

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The following may work

→ AUR (en) - samsung-ml2160

Please note the use of custom packages is unsupported.

→ Arch User Repository - ArchWiki
→ Arch User Repository - Manjaro
→ [Need-To-Know] About Manjaro and AUR

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It seems like a rebranded HP Multifunction device. There is a linux “driver” on the downloads page from HP, but such closed source stuff should be used as a last resort because it is usually made for ubuntu or not tested enough on arch and can mess the package management and your system.

The above listed AUR package should do the job cleanly, and despite the general warning about AUR, should be safe and minimally invasive - it just adds 1 config file to the system. The kind of universal download one could expect from a sensible manufacturer, instead of bunch of executable files.

Also note, that the above mentioned AUR takes care or the printer part. No idea about the scanner. Maybe it just works? Test with simple scan program.

Alternatively to the above, you can also try the samsung-unified-driver, which covers the scan part too, BUT i am not sure it is suitable, because in your case you actually have a HP device.

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It seems to be supported:

https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/supported.html

There is only one way to know for sure, though…

Edit:

Also, according to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1dcth1g/comment/l80o1zv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Samsung printers division now belongs to hp.

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@linux-aarhus
I have also found the link that you mentioned
But it was useless for me (I did not know what to do with it :frowning:

Thanks also for the other immediate response :slight_smile:
Here is what solved the issue for me (kernel: 6.9.12-3-MANJARO):
1.) If yay is not installed, you install under Manjaro via:

pacman -S --needed git base-devel yay

2.)

yay -S samsung-unified-driver-printer

3.)

yay -S cups system-config-printer

4.)

sudo systemctl enable cups

P.S.:
Source of information: “How to install Samsung ML-2160 in Arch Linux”
by AntonFriberg on github (I was not allowed to add this in form of a link :frowning: ).

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You will probably want the samsung-unified-driver-scanner too.

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