Yosemite samsung clx 3180 printer driver issue

Are you using the current driver? How is the printer set up? Have you tried USB, if possible?

Are there any messages in /Utilities/Console about Sandbox? Any other suspicious messages related to the print jobs?

Thank you for your detailed reply. Did you also check the /var/log/cups/error_log(s) in Console? It's possible the error messages, if any, didn't make it to the All Messages log.

The best way to tell Apple about this issue is to use:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

if you haven't done so already.

I dont know if this will help you...

But make sure your computer is connected to the same wifi-network as your printer.

I.e. if you have two wifi networks, or a wifi hotspot enhancer.. You need to connect to the exact same router/access point with your macbook pro and printer. in order to print

No there is a general problem with Samsungs printer drivers and Cups 2.0 which is the new printing system in Yosemite. One workaround is, if you have an AirPrint enabled Samsung printer, to switch to the AirPrint driver which comes with OS X (Simply add another printer take the Bonjour printer and use the driver AirPrint instead of the Samsung drivers. This works at least for me, I even get full duplex and the toner fill status that way. So good enough not to bother with the original driver for now. However if you don't have AirPrint on your printer then you have to wait for Samsung to fix that issue. This is clearly a problem of their drivers and Linux in the future also will be affected since it also uses Cups. So the best bet is to notify Samsung about it. They are pretty quick in fixing those issues once their driver department gets the bug report (there was a similar issue with AirPrint and IOS 8 which was fixed within two weeks after they got the message by releasing a new firmware)

I would not count on Apple to fix that issue, since from their POV probably everything is alright. I am not even sure if Cups 2.0 is backwards compatible driver wise. Best bet really is to call up samsung and notify then about the issue.

First of all you have to have an AirPrint enabled printer. What I did simply was to use system settings -> printer -> + (Add printer). Then my printer was on the list of possible printers to be added (Bonjour Printer Samsung M2875FW). Then I simply chose the driver AirPrint and that was it.

After that printing worked. My printer however needed to be on the latest Samsung firmware since this one fixed a severe AirPrint issue with IOS 8 and possibly also Yosemite.

Not sure if the Samsung clx 3180 is AirPrint enabled. If yes make sure you have upgraded to the latest firmware which should have been released around 10.10.2014.

If your printer is not an AirPrint printer, then you have to wait for Samsung to release a new driver.

Ok another workaround, I found out that my printer also is a generic PCL printer. I simply can choose generic PCL printer as driver and printing also works.

PCL is a generic printing language understood by many printers. You could give the generic PCL driver a shot which comes with Yosemite, chances are high that your printer understands it.

Your printer is not an AirPrint printer. If you'd like, please send me the files from /var/logs/cups and I'll see if I can find out what the problem is. (You can use /Applications/Terminal and type "open /var/logs/cups" and drag those files into an email message.) My email is jblancha@mac.com.

And just to double-check, what is the version number of the driver you are using? Thank you.

Ok I have additional information, the original driver seems to work as well on my printer, it just takes very long from printing to sending the printed document to the printer with the message looking for printer (1-2 Minutes). I also checked the cups logs there is no error whatsoever.

However what definitely is broken is the fill status indicator on the driver (which works with the apple supplied drivers). So far I dont think the problem is with Cups I am still convinced the problem lies with the Samsung driver which does non standard things.