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As you may have gathered from my earlier post about Safari, my wife has a new iBook. Before the new computer, everything on our network handled my printserver-hosted Samsung ML-1430 laser printer just fine. Now, I am having trouble installing it on the new iBook.

The biggest problem I am having is that I can't remember where the various installers are supposed to stick the files I need. I have a Ghostscript and a CUPS installer downloaded, and I've run them both, but when I go to the Print Center to add the printer for network printing, I can't find where they put the Samsung support files.

The printer works fine via USB, by the way, it's just not terribly convenient to walk the iBook across the room (or the house) to print.

I'm either losing my mine (quite possible here lately!), or those files are going somewhere I just am not thinking to look.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

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Ok, I got it working! And I feel extremely foolish about why I didn't get it working earlier.

I had installed the CUPS drivers for my Samsung printer (I have an ML-1430, but the 1220 driver works fine), but I couldn't find Samsung listed in Print Center. Here's what I did wrong. Network printing in OS X takes three modules, one is generic for all non-PostScript printers, and the other two are model specific. The model specific parts are in the CUPS installation software, which I ran and which seemed to install correctly. The third part is the problem.

In order for the CUPS drivers to install correctly, I needed an EPS Ghostscript translator. I thought I had installed that package, but obviously I hadn't. So when I ran the CUPS drivers, they couldn't find the EPS files they depended on, and nothing worked. Of course they could have told me that there was a problem, but what fun would that have been?

Anyway, here's a link to Linux Printing.org that explains the issue (and helped me regain what sanity I had before this problem came up).