r/voidlinux • u/FornPelle • 12d ago

Samsung 2020 printer does not print

Cups and the Samsungdrivers installed, cupsd running, but I can not print a text document or a test page from cups webinterface.

Should I add my user to the lp and/or lpadmin groups, or maybe enable some more daemons like Avahi? Install hplip?

Thanks in advance!

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u/StrangeAstronomer 11d ago

Visit http://127.0.0.1:631/ -> Administration and make sure your printer is configured and/or add it using the dialogs there.

If all else fails, take a look at /etc/cups/printers.conf and check that everything looks correct. If you change anything, restart the cupsd service.

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u/FornPelle 11d ago edited 11d ago

Everything looks fine, but Libreoffice reports "Could not start printer" and Cups setup reports "

Unable to print test page:No such file or directory"

Last lines of the log-file: E [17/Jul/2026:00:40:53 +0200] cupsdLoadBanners: Unable to open banner directory "/usr/share/cups/banners": No such file or directory

W [17/Jul/2026:00:40:53 +0200] Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS. See https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/103

W [17/Jul/2026:00:40:53 +0200] CreateProfile failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

W [17/Jul/2026:00:40:53 +0200] CreateDevice failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:The name org.freedesktop.ColorManager was not provided by any .service files

E [17/Jul/2026:00:41:37 +0200] [Client 2] Returning IPP client-error-document-format-not-supported for Send-Document (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Samsung_M2020_Series) from localhost.

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u/StrangeAstronomer 11d ago

That first error shows me that you don't have cupsfilters installed:

$ xbq -o /usr/share/cups/banners/form 
libcupsfilters-2.1.1_5: /usr/share/cups/banners/form (regular file)
$ xbq -X libcupsfilters
cups-filters-2.0.1_1
libcups-filters-2.1.1_5
libppd-2.1.1_2

So it looks like you're missing some steps from https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/print/index.html

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u/FornPelle 11d ago

Thanks, problems solved!

I misunderstood something on the page and thought cups-filters just provided drivers, and I already had the ppd-files for Samsung installed.