Linux Mint 13 (Maya) and CLP-315W works great - thank you

[oleboyredw]

I followed the instructions on the intro.

In summary:
1: added the repository and key via the Synaptic Package Manager application on Mint.
2: installed the software
3: created the printer and made any changes I needed
4: test prints and some real ones ran great.

Installation was easy.

The only thing I fell over was selecting the correct driver from CUPS. 
Using the CLP-315 definitions my printer jammed, however I tried using the Samsung CLP310 Series (SPL-C) definition and it works great.

[oleboyredw]

Well,  It was successful, however, what I'd not spotted until the last few days is that the print is high on the page.  Printing was good until I moved to Mint 13 (from Suse).  Windows 7 still prints OK (from my laptop) but printing anything from Linux results in the print being too high.  Only references I could find to this type of scenario was for Brother printers and that was, in general debugged to the device driver.

To be clear - printing works great APART from being too high on page.

When I look in the Unified Driver Configurator I see I'm using the Samsung CLP-310 Series (SPL-C) driver.  I seem to be unable to change this with the configurator.

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[oleboyredw]

Fixed, went through the setup again and from CUPS changed the driver to Samsung CLP-315 Foomatic/foo2qpdl (recommended) (color, 2-sided printing).

Now sorted out the misalignment I'd managed to get.

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[bchemnet]

Your solution implies that you actually don't need the Samsung driver at all - the one you have selected is the foomatic one available through the normal repositories.

[totally-king]

bchemnet is right of course. However you should benchmark if the open source foomatic driver really gives you good printing results.

This page is pretty informative: It's German but the main point is to assess the printing quality (Druck-Qualität) of different drivers (Treiber) ... And that's about all German you need to know to understand the pictures. ;) They used the CLP-300 for their tests. I recommend you closely compare foomatic results to Windows and Unified Linux Driver and then consider which one is best.

One main issue seems to be printing black (text) in color mode where some drivers (especially the Unified Driver???) print black as a combination of CMY but do not use K, which of course gives horrible results ...

EDIT: fixed link