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6Using Smart Panel
Smart Panel is a program that monitors and informs you of the 
status of the printer, and allows you to customize the printer’s 
settings. 
Smart Panel is installed automatically when you 
install the printer software.
NOTES:
• To use this program, you need:
- To check for Operating System(s) that are compatible with 
your printer, refer to Printer Specifications in your Printer 
User’s Guide.
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
- Linux. To check for Linux systems that are compatible with 
your printer, refer to Printer Specifications in your Printer 
User’s Guide.
- Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher for flash animation 
in HTML Help.
• If you need to know the exact name of your printer, you can 
check the supplied CD-ROM.
Understanding Smart Panel
If an error occurs while printing, Smart Panel appears 
automatically, showing the error.
You can also launch Smart Panel manually. Double-click the 
Smart Panel icon on the Windows task bar (in Windows), or 
Notification Area (in Linux). You can also click it on the status 
bar (in Mac OS X).
Double-click this icon in Windows.
Click this icon in Mac OS X.
Click this icon in Linux.
If you are a Windows user, from the Start menu, select 
Programs or All Programs  → your printer driver name → 
Smart Panel.
NOTES: 
• If you have already installed more than one Samsung 
printer, first select the printer model you want in order to 
use the corresponding Smart Panel. Right-click (in Windows 
or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the Smart Panel icon and 
select 
your printer name.
• The Smart Panel window and its contents shown in this 
Software User’s Guide may differ depending on the printer or 
Operating System in use.
The Smart Panel program displays the current status of the 
printer, the level of toner remaining in the toner cartridge(s) 
and various other information. You can also change settings.
Toner Level
You can view the level of toner remaining in the toner 
cartridge(s). The printer and the number of toner cartridge(s) 
shown in the above window may differ depending on the printer in 
use. Any printers do not have this feature.
Buy Now
You can order replacement toner cartridge(s) online.
Troubleshooting Guide
You can view Help to solve problems.
Printer Setting
You can configure various printer settings in the Printer Settings 
Utility window. Any printers do not have this feature.
NOTE: If your printer is connected to a network, the 
SyncThru Web Service window appears instead of the 
Printer Settings Utility window.
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Driver Setting (Only for Windows)
You can use the printer properties window, which allows you to 
access all of the printer options you need for using your 
printer.
 For details, See “Printer Settings” on page 13.
Opening the Troubleshooting 
Guide
Using the troubleshooting guide, you can view solutions for 
error status problems.
Right-click (in Windows or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the 
Smart Panel icon and select 
Troubleshooting Guide.
Using Printer Settings Utility
Using the Printer Settings Utility, you can configure and check 
print settings. 
1Right-click (in Windows or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the 
Smart Panel icon and select 
Printer Setting.
2Change the settings. 
3To send the changes to the printer, click the Apply button.
NOTES: If your printer is connected to a network, the 
SyncThru Web Service window appears instead of the 
Printer Settings Utility window.
Using Onscreen Help File
For more information about Printer Settings Utility, click   . 
Changing the Smart Panel 
Program Settings
Right-click (in Windows or Linux) or click (in Mac OS X) the 
Smart Panel icon and select 
Options. Select the settings you 
want from the 
Options window.
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7Using Your Printer in 
Linux 
You can use your machine in a Linux environment. 
This chapter includes:
• Getting Started
• Installing the Unified Linux Driver
• Using the Unified Driver Configurator
• Configuring Printer Properties
• Printing a Document
• Scanning a Document
Getting Started
You need to download Linux software package from the 
Samsung website (www.samsung.com/printer) to install the 
printer softwares.
Samsung’s Unified Linux Driver package contains printer and 
scanner drivers, providing the ability to print documents and 
scan images. The package also delivers powerful applications 
for configuring your machine and further processing of the 
scanned documents.
After the driver is installed on your Linux system, the driver 
package allows you to monitor a number of machine devices via 
fast ECP parallel ports and USB simultaneously. The acquired 
documents can then be edited, printed on the same local or 
network machine devices, sent by e-mail, uploaded to an FTP 
site, or transferred to an external OCR system.
The Unified Linux Driver package is supplied with a smart and 
flexible installation program. You dont need to search for 
additional components that might be necessary for the Unified 
Linux Driver software: all required packages will be carried onto 
your system and installed automatically; this is possible on a 
wide set of the most popular Linux clones.
Installing the Unified Linux 
Driver
Installing the Unified Linux Driver
1Make sure that you connect your machine to your 
computer. Turn both the computer and the machine on.
2When the Administrator Login window appears, type in 
root in the Login field and enter the system password.
NOTE: You must log in as a super user (root) to install the 
printer software. If you are not a super user, ask your system 
administrator.
3From the Samsung website, download and unpack the 
Unified Linux Driver package to your computer.
4Click the   icon at the bottom of the desktop. When the 
Terminal screen appears, type in:
[root@localhost root]#tar zxf [FilePath]/
UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz[root@localhost root]#cd 
[FilePath]/cdroot/Linux[root@localhost Linux]#./
install.sh
NOTE:  If you do not use the graphical interface and failed to 
install the software, you have to use the driver in the text 
mode. Follow the steps 3 to 4, and then follow the instructions 
on the terminal screen.
5When the welcome screen appears, click Next.
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6When the installation is complete, click Finish.
The installation program has added the Unified Driver 
Configurator desktop icon and Samsung Unified Driver 
group to the system menu for your convenience. If you 
have any difficulties, consult the onscreen help that is 
available through your system menu or can otherwise be 
called from the driver package windows applications, 
such as 
Unified Driver Configurator or Image 
Manager
.
NOTE: Installing the driver in the text mode:
• If you do not use the graphical interface or have failed the 
driver installation, you have to use the driver in the text 
mode.
• Follow the step 1 to 3, then type [root@localhost Linux]# ./
install.sh, than follow the instruction on the terminal screen. 
Then the installation completes.
• When you wan to uninstall the driver, follow the installation 
instruction above, but type [root@localhost Linux]# ./
uninstall.sh on the terminal screen.
Uninstalling the Unified Linux Driver
1When the Administrator Login window appears, type in 
root in the Login field and enter the system password.
NOTE: You must log in as a super user (root) to install the 
printer software. If you are not a super user, ask your system 
administrator.
2Click the   icon at the bottom of the desktop. When the 
Terminal screen appears, type in: 
[root@localhost root]#cd /opt/Samsung/mfp/uninstall/
[root@localhost uninstall]#./uninstall.sh
NOTE: The installation program runs automatically if you 
have an autorun software package installed and configured.
3Click Uninstall.
4Click Next. 
5Click Finish.
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Using the Unified Driver 
Configurator
Unified Linux Driver Configurator is a tool primarily intended for 
configuring Printer or MFP devices. Since an MFP device 
combines the printer and scanner, the Unified Linux Driver 
Configurator provides options logically grouped for printer and 
scanner functions. There is also a special MFP port option 
responsible for the regulation of access to an MFP printer and 
scanner via a single I/O channel.
After installing the Unified Linux driver, the Unified Linux Driver 
Configurator icon will automatically be created on your desktop.
Opening the Unified Driver 
Configurator
1Double-click Unified Driver Configurator on the 
desktop.
You can also click the Startup Menu icon and select 
Samsung Unified Driver and then Unified Driver 
Configurator
.
2Press each button on the Modules pane to switch to the 
corresponding configuration window.   
You can use the onscreen help by clicking 
Help.
3After changing the configurations, click Exit to close the 
Unified Driver Configurator.
Printers Configuration button
Scanners Configuration button
Ports Configuration button
Printers Configuration
Printers configuration has the two tabs: Printers and Classes. 
Printers Tab
You can see the current system’s printer configuration by 
clicking on the printer icon button on the left side of the Unified 
Driver Configurator window.
You can use the following printer control buttons:
•Refresh: renews the available printers list.
•
Add Printer: allows you to add a new printer.
•
Remove Printer: removes the selected printer.
•
Set as Default: sets the current printer as a default 
printer.
•
Stop/Start: stops/starts the printer.
•
Test: allows you to print a test page to check if the 
machine is working properly.
•
Properties: allows you to view and change the printer 
properties. For details, see page 33.
Shows all of the 
installed printer.
Switches to Printer 
configuration.
Shows the status, 
model name and 
URI of your printer.
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Classes Tab
The Classes tab shows a list of available printer classes.
•Refresh : Renews the classes list.
•
Add Class... : Allows you to add a new printer class.
•
Remove Class : Removes the selected printer class.
Scanners Configuration
In this window, you can monitor the activity of scanner devices, 
view a list of installed Samsung MFP devices, change device 
properties, and scan images.
•Properties... : Allows you to change the scan properties 
and scan a document. See page 34.
•
Drivers... : Allows you to monitor the activity of the scan drivers.
Shows the status of the 
class and the number of 
printers in the class.
Shows all of the 
printer classes.
Switches to 
Scanners 
configuration.
Shows all of the 
installed scanners.
Shows the vendor, 
model name and type 
of your scanner. 
Ports Configuration
In this window, you can view the list of available ports, check 
the status of each port and release a port that is stalled in busy 
state when its owner is terminated for any reason.
•Refresh : Renews the available ports list.
•
Release port : Releases the selected port.
Sharing Ports Between Printers and Scanners 
Your machine may be connected to a host computer via the 
parallel port or USB port. Since the MFP device contains more 
than one device (printer and scanner), it is necessary to 
organize proper access of “consumer” applications to these 
devices via the single I/O port.
The Samsung Unified Linux Driver package provides an 
appropriate port sharing mechanism that is used by Samsung 
printer and scanner drivers. The drivers address their devices 
via so-called MFP ports. The current status of any MFP port can 
be viewed via the Ports Configuration. The port sharing 
prevents you from accessing one functional block of the MFP 
device, while another block is in use.
When you install a new MFP device onto your system, it is 
strongly recommended you do this with the assistance of an 
Unified Driver Configurator. In this case you will be asked to 
choose I/O port for the new device. This choice will provide the 
most suitable configuration for MFP’s functionality. For MFP 
scanners I/O ports are being chosen by scanner drivers 
automatically, so proper settings are applied by default.
Switches to 
ports 
configuration.
Shows the port type, 
device connected to 
the port and status
Shows all of the 
available ports.
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Configuring Printer Properties
Using the properties window provided by the Printers 
configuration, you can change the various properties for your 
machine as a printer.
1Open the Unified Driver Configurator.
If necessary, switch to Printers configuration.
2Select your machine on the available printers list and click 
Properties.
3The Printer Properties window opens.
The following five tabs display at the top of the window:
•
General: allows you to change the printer location and 
name. The name entered in this tab displays on the 
printer list in Printers configuration.
•
Connection: allows you to view or select another port. If 
you change the printer port from USB to parallel or vice 
versa while in use, you must re-configure the printer port 
in this tab.
•
Driver: allows you to view or select another printer 
driver. By clicking 
Options, you can set the default 
device options.
•
Jobs: shows the list of print jobs. Click Cancel job to 
cancel the selected job and select the 
Show completed 
jobs
 check box to see previous jobs on the job list.
•
Classes: shows the class that your printer is in. Click 
Add to Class to add your printer to a specific class or 
click 
Remove from Class to remove the printer from the 
selected class.
4Click OK to apply the changes and close the Printer 
Properties Window.
Printing a Document
Printing from Applications
There are a lot of Linux applications that you are allowed to 
print from using Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). You 
can print on your machine from any such application.
1From the application you are using, select Print from the 
File menu.
2Select Print directly using lpr.
3In the LPR GUI window, select the model name of your 
machine from the Printer list and click 
Properties.
4Change the printer and print job properties.
Click.
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The following four tabs display at the top of the window.
•
General - allows you to change the paper size, the paper 
type, and the orientation of the documents, enables the 
duplex feature, adds start and end banners, and changes 
the number of pages per sheet.
•
Text - allows you to specify the page margins and set the 
text options, such as spacing or columns.
•
Graphics - allows you to set image options that are used 
when printing images/files, such as color options, image 
size, or image position.
•
Device: allows you to set the print resolution, paper 
source, and destination.
5Click Apply to apply the changes and close the Properties 
window. 
6Click OK in the LPR GUI window to start printing.
7The Printing window appears, allowing you to monitor the 
status of your print job.
To abort the current job, click 
Cancel.
Printing Files
You can print many different types of files on the Samsung 
machine device using the standard CUPS way - directly from 
the command line interface. The CUPS lpr utility allows you do 
that. But the drivers package replaces the standard lpr tool by 
a much more user-friendly LPR GUI program.
To print any document file:
1Ty p e  lpr  from the Linux shell command 
line and press 
Enter. The LPR GUI window appears.
When you type only 
lpr and press Enter, the Select 
file(s) to print window appears first. Just select any files 
you want to print and click 
Open. 
2In the LPR GUI window, select your printer from the list, 
and change the printer and print job properties.
For details about the properties window, see page 33.
3Click OK to start printing.
Scanning a Document
You can scan a document using the Unified Driver Configurator 
window.
1Double-click the Unified Driver Configurator on your 
desktop.
2Click the   button to switch to Scanners Configuration.
3Select the scanner on the list. 
When you have only one MFP device and it is connected 
to the computer and turned on, your scanner appears on 
the list and is automatically selected.
If you have two or more scanners attached to your 
computer, you can select any scanner to work at any 
time. For example, while acquisition is in progress on the 
first scanner, you may select the second scanner, set the 
device options and start the image acquisition 
simultaneously.
4Click Properties.
5Load the document to be scanned face up into the ADF 
(Automatic Document Feeder) or face down on the 
document glass.
6Click Preview in the Scanner Properties window.
Click your 
scanner.
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The document is scanned and the image preview appears 
in the Preview Pane.
7Change the scan options in the Image Quality and Scan 
Area sections.
•
Image Quality: allows you to select the color 
composition and the scan resolution for the image.
•
Scan Area: allows you to select the page size. The 
Advanced button enables you to set the page size 
manually.
If you want to use one of the preset scan option settings, 
select from the Job Type drop-down list. For details about 
the preset Job Type settings, see page 35.
You can restore the default setting for the scan options 
by clicking 
Default.
8When you have finished, click Scan to start scanning.
The status bar appears on the bottom left of the window 
to show you the progress of the scan. To cancel scanning, 
click 
Cancel.
9The scanned image appears in the new Image Manager 
tab.
If you want to edit the scanned image, use the toolbar. 
For further details about editing an image, see page 35.
Drag the pointer to 
set the image area 
to be scanned.
10When you are finished, click Save on the toolbar.
11Select the file directory where you want to save the image 
and enter the file name. 
12Click Save.
Adding Job Type Settings
You can save your scan option settings to retrieve for a later 
scanning.
To save a new Job Type setting:
1Change the options from the Scanner Properties window.
2Click Save As.
3Enter the name for your setting.
4Click OK. 
Your setting is added to the Saved Settings drop-down 
list.
To save a Job Type setting for the next scan job:
1Select the setting you want to use from the Job Type drop-
down list.
2The next time you open the Scanner Properties window, 
the saved setting is automatically selected for the scan 
job.
To delete a Job Type setting:
1Select the setting you want to delete from the Job Type 
drop-down list.
2Click Delete.
The setting is deleted from the list
Using the Image Manager
The Image Manager application provides you with menu 
commands and tools to edit your scanned image.
Use these tools to 
edit the image.
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You can use the following tools to edit the image:
For further details about the Image Manager application, refer 
to the onscreen help.
ToolsFunction
Saves the image.
Cancels your last action.
Restores the action you canceled.
Allows you to scroll through the image.
Crops the selected image area.
Zooms the image out.
Zooms the image in.
Allows you to scale the image size; you can 
enter the size manually, or set the rate to 
scale proportionally, vertically, or 
horizontally.
Allows you to rotate the image; you can 
select the number of degrees from the drop-
down list.
Allows you to flip the image vertically or 
horizontally. 
Allows you to adjust the brightness or 
contrast of the image, or to invert the 
image.
Shows the properties of the image.
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