Samsung laser suddenly printing garbage

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Samsung laser suddenly printing garbage

I've been using a Samsung ML 2250 successfully for a couple of years with my Imac with the Gutenprint drivers. But suddenly, perhaps after my last software update, it began to print garbage on page after page after page. The first page starts out "%1PS-Adobe-3.0"
Is this related to an update of my OS? I've reset the printer system, reinstalled, but same problem.
Any suggestions?

2.16 GGz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.7), 20 "" display, USB keyboard and mouse

Posted on May 18, 2009 7:11 PM

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croshaven Author

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May 18, 2009 7:26 PM in response to croshaven

Partial success--this thread helped: (Thanks to Matt Broughton)
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3442464
I installed the HPJIS driver found at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs.

It doesn't support the ML 2250 but it does support the ML 2150. I installed it as that and it printed a page correctly.

I'm still not sure what happened to the Gutenprint driver...

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croshaven Author

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May 18, 2009 7:28 PM in response to croshaven

I posted the solution in the thread. Thanks to Matt Broughton for pointing in the right direction.

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croshaven Author

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May 19, 2009 8:27 PM in response to croshaven

Was only a partial solution. I can't print in landscape mode.

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croshaven Author

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May 19, 2009 8:29 PM in response to croshaven

It was only a partial solution. I can print in portrait mode but not in landscape. The ML 2150 printer driver is probably different than the ML 2250 driver for landscape mode.

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