Samsung CLP-300 Rastertosec failed.

Hi All:
I upgraded to Snow Leopard V 10.6.1 and had problems with printing with my Samsung CLP 300 via airport extreme. I called up apple and here is the fix that works:
Go to "http://support.apple.com/kb/DL905" download the latest driver for Samsung,install it, and
remove the old drivers that existed prior to the upgrade.
Now try the new driver, and it works fine. If the printer chokes, turn it off and on a couple of times, and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

Hi nanda-mac,

Thanks for your suggestion, but I have already tried that.

Out of curiosity, did you start having problems with the printer after upgrading from 10.6 to 10.6.1? Where you getting the same error message (i.e. rastertosec quit unexpectedly)?

Based on a suggestion on another thread, I have fixed my problem.

Samsung has recently released a new file for their drivers that covers 10.3 to 10.6 in a single file (which I got from the website). I uninstalled the old drivers and reinstalled theses, and now everything works perfectly. Don't be fooled by the fact that the version number for the driver hasn't changed from version 3. This is a new file, which works perfectly.

In my case this wasn't enough to get printing going again.

After running full system cleanup using ONYX ( http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11582) - my issue was fixed. I was able to install Samsung printer and it performs beautifully again.

I did everything suggested in this thread (also the Onyx tip), as I have the same problem, with the same versions etc.

Now everything works fine in my main account. but in my other account, it still gives this error. Very, very annoying.

so I redid all the steps, ereased everything that has something to do with Samsung or printer drivers, and in my main account it all works fine, but not in the other account...

Any new ideas on what the problem can be?

Log out that user, remove all of the files start with "com.apple.print." in that user's preference folder (/Library/Preferences, and /Library/Preferences/ByHost), then try again.

In case this might be helpful to someone out there, I'd like to share my experiences with this issue.

On upgrading to Snow Leopard, I started to have the same problems as everybody else trying to print from my MacBook to a Samsung CLP 300 connected to an AirPort Express: The "rastertosec" executable would crash with a segmentation fault (EXC BADACCESS).

I tried out nearly all suggestions in this thread to fix the problem, to no avail. I did not find a 10.3 to 10.6 integrated driver for the CLP 300 at the Samsung site, but the rastertosec programm nicked from the one for the ML 2510 didn't make a difference either.

I finally managed to avoid the crash by forcibly removing the 64bit code from the rastertosec program installed in /Library/Printers/Samsung/Filters/ by the most recent (as of 2009-10-13) drivers downloaded automatically from Apple:

sudo mv rastertosec rastertosec.bak
sudo ditto -arch i386 rastertosec.bak rastertosec

This forces the operating system to use the 32bit code, which happens to work just fine. Together with the remaining evidence this seems to indicate that there's a programming error in the rastertosec code that manifests itself if compiled as 64bit code (not exactly an unheard of thing to happen...) and may or may not be triggered depending on the exact data and options the filter is given. Of course, one could only be sure by carefully analyzing the source code, which is not available...

OMG Tim, thank you so much! I had tried everything to get my Samsung CLX-2160N working but still ended up with that rastertosec failed error. After trying your 32bit forcing manoeuvre, it's working perfectly!

Genius!!!

I was having this issue printing to Samsung CLP-300 from a FileMaker runtime? solution. Tried pengtao's suggestion and I'm back printing.

BTW, has anybody who is having this problem NOT installed the Printer Support from Optional Installs on the 10.6 disk???

I'd tried everything else suggested on here - not knowing about this optional install.

Everything is absolutely fine & dandy now!

November 21st 2009- Updated to 10.6.2. - Tried to print the PDF file of my E-Ticket.
Got the same "rastosec" failed error.

I have tried every single solutions proposed below. None has worked.
After 5 hours of clean install, re-install, drivers install, I feel like being back in the Windows world.... of the 1990s.

Apple is being completely irresponsible. I pay 30$ for an update (10.6) and I can't do the very simple task of pinting a PDF to a Samsung CLP300 printer.

Is anyone as a fast, reliable, solution? Please...

Excellent! Thanks for the info. It worked for me. Now I can print again.

Excellent, thank you! A word of advice though for those who tried this apparently with no luck. Have you checked the toner? When the toner is run down, the printer just stops working!

Thanks Tim, your suggestion worked.

Hi Tim,

I would like to try what you have done but am not sure how to do this? Do I need to open the rastertosec file with an application and delete the lines of code you have stated?

Please can you explain a little further as it seems others have joy from you method.

Thanks