Installing Samsung Multifunction Printer – Ubuntu 11.10

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 CD’s 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 samsungmfp-configurator-data samsungmfp-configurator-qt4 libsane-extras

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

The entries above are for the SCX-3400 model. To find the USB ID’s 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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Leo Gaggl

ict business owner specialising in mobile learning systems. interests: sustainability, internet of things, ict for development, open innovation, agriculture

This Post Has 39 Comments

  1. guest 3 Apr 2012

    thanks, worked perfectly

  2. guest1 2 May 2012

    yeahhhh works perfect, thx

  3. guest guest 14 Jun 2012

    Worked just fine ! thanks

  4. Lucas Cambuim 24 Jun 2012

    very nice!

  5. Monfraide 1 Jul 2012

    Parfait !!! Merci beaucoup !!!

  6. hatti 13 Jul 2012

    thank you very much.

    scanner used to work on karmic koala without any tinkering,but there was a problem on lucid lynx.
    now it’s fine!

  7. Rafael 22 Jul 2012

    Thanks, worked perfectly!

  9. yves 24 Aug 2012

    Un grand merci !

  11. Sergei 12 Sep 2012

    Works great with scx-3405 – Thanks a lot !

  12. Pat120 2 Oct 2012

    Merci beaucoup c’est parfait ! Très bien décrit

  13. vin 27 Oct 2012

    Thank you very much!
    It works fine with my new scx-3405fw.
    Vin

  14. Gabriela 17 Dec 2012

    Thank you very much !!! You really help me out as hell !! I almost thought about my purchase was in vain. Thanks a lot…really! ‘:D
    *The happiest girl at this moment! Scanner recognize! Yuppieeee!

    -> Ubuntu 12.4 user
    -> Printer Multifunctional Samsung SCX-3405W

  16. Reiner 4 Feb 2013

    München, 03.02.2013

    Thank you very much!!!

  17. jan-Olof 9 Feb 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

  18. jan-Olof 9 Feb 2013

    One more comment; I used Ubuntu 12.04.

  19. Simon 4 Apr 2013

    Thanks, works!

  20. Reiner 29 Apr 2013

    29.04.2013
    Thanks you very much
    Worked super

  21. alvaro hypolito 26 May 2013

    does it work for ubuntu 10.04 and samsung scx-3405w?

  22. Leo Gaggl 27 May 2013

    Not sure – haven’t used 10.04 for a long time. All of my systems are on 12.04 or 13.04.

  23. Edwar Salazar 29 May 2013

    probado en ubuntu 12.04 y funciona ok

  24. Edwar Salazar 29 May 2013

    funciona en ubuntu 12.04.2 impresora y scaner scx 3405w

  25. Pasqualino Imbemba 30 May 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 doesn’t react.

  26. Pieter 28 Aug 2013

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

  27. George Pligor 2 Oct 2013

    thanks it worked well so far. Really appreciate for sharing!

  28. Felix 23 Oct 2013

    Thanks!

  29. Daniel 1 Nov 2013

    Its an awesome easy to use guide. Worked first time.

  30. Marius 19 Nov 2013

    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.

  31. calogero 23 Dec 2013

    Hello Sears
    i installed Samsung SCX 3400 as these instructions, but the printer doesn’t 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?

  32. jhyfisher 4 Mar 2014

    Thanks, just what I needed, worked perfectly

  33. Giovanni 27 Mar 2014

    Great! Now my samsung printer work perfectly! greetings from Lecce!

  35. bilka 8 Jun 2014

    thx ! worked on 12.04 too

  36. Soeldner 27 Jul 2014

    works Mint 17, thx

  37. Alisson 18 Aug 2014

    thanks, worked perfectly!
    obrigado amigo, funcionou perfeitamente. Me salvou.

  38. Kees 21 Jan 2015

    Thanks for this guide, it allowed me to install my SCX-3400w printer flawlessly.

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