{"id":10746,"date":"2019-09-05T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T13:48:50","slug":"my-chromebook-and-my-samsung-scx-4623-printer-connected-through-jetdirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2019\/09\/05\/my-chromebook-and-my-samsung-scx-4623-printer-connected-through-jetdirect\/","title":{"rendered":"my Chromebook and my Samsung SCX-4623 printer: &#8220;File is in the wrong format. Check the PPD file and try again.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That printer is connected USB-wise to my router, a FRITZ!Box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is how my Macs and Windowses connect to my printer (according to router manufacturer&#8217;s instructions): The protocol is JetDirect on port 9100:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JetDirect\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JetDirect<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The manufacturer&#8217;s instructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/knowledge-base\/publication\/show\/12_Setting-up-a-USB-printer-connected-to-FRITZ-Box-as-a-network-printer\/\">https:\/\/en.avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/knowledge-base\/publication\/show\/12_Setting-up-a-USB-printer-connected-to-FRITZ-Box-as-a-network-printer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/wissensdatenbank\/publication\/show\/12_USB-Drucker-an-FRITZ-Box-als-Netzwerkdrucker-einrichten\/\">https:\/\/avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/wissensdatenbank\/publication\/show\/12_USB-Drucker-an-FRITZ-Box-als-Netzwerkdrucker-einrichten\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried for a while to connect through fritz.box:9100 and provide a PPD, but the Chromebook&#8217;s printer set-up kept complaining:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">File is in the wrong format. Check the PPD file and try again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where I got the PPD from: Apparently Samsung&#8217;s printer business got moved to HP, and  from their support site I downloaded a TAR file (uld_V1.00.39_01.17.tar.gz) containing a nice PPD file (uld\/noarch\/share\/ppd\/Samsung_SCX-4623_Series.ppd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did not help \u2013 I got to move on anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For the time being&#8221; I activated &#8220;printer sharing&#8221; on my Mac mini. After that the Chromebook found the device automatically, and the set-up suggested through IPPS etc, and everything is fine (just that another server is involved) (and presumably the Chromebook does not need a PPD):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Printing_Protocol\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Printing_Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This did not work out for me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dfarq.homeip.net\/how-to-print-from-a-chromebook-to-an-hp-printer\/\">https:\/\/dfarq.homeip.net\/how-to-print-from-a-chromebook-to-an-hp-printer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>FUTURE: If I will ever have to use this printer again with my Chromebooks, I will first attach the printer usb-wise to the Chromebook, so the Chromebook will have the right driver already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That printer is connected USB-wise to my router, a FRITZ!Box. This is how my Macs and Windowses connect to my printer (according to router manufacturer&#8217;s instructions): The protocol is JetDirect on port 9100: The manufacturer&#8217;s instructions: https:\/\/en.avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/knowledge-base\/publication\/show\/12_Setting-up-a-USB-printer-connected-to-FRITZ-Box-as-a-network-printer\/ https:\/\/avm.de\/service\/fritzbox\/fritzbox-7590\/wissensdatenbank\/publication\/show\/12_USB-Drucker-an-FRITZ-Box-als-Netzwerkdrucker-einrichten\/ I tried for a while to connect through fritz.box:9100 and provide a PPD, but the Chromebook&#8217;s printer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1431,519],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chromebook","category-samsung-scx-4623f"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2Nk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12447,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}