my Samsung "Color Laser Printer" CLP-315

its US-English web-page.

its German web-page.

The printing quality got worse a couple of months ago – low-colour stripes, where I expected bright colour.

I called support yesterday.
He told me to take everything out (all 4 cartridges, the waster toner (box) (in Geman: Resttonerbehälter), and the other beast (I will tell you its name, once I remember)).
I should shake the cartridges a little.
I should clean "it" (that glass area, where the pictures are captured) with something fluff-free and a little wet.
I should let it dry for a couple of hours.
I should also open and close the cover a couple of times, as that would activate a cleaning mechanism.
I actually went for the dry variant, and I was rather successful. I am rather satisfied now.

how to print from my Mac OS X machine through a Netgear print server

A Netgear knowledge base article named Recommended Unix printer configuration for PS110 explains, why it's good to use the LPD printing method.

Now my Mac is the UNIX-ish machine on my LAN with the richest printing capabilities:

• It can print through a 7270 AVM FRITZ!Box (my router++) on a Samsung CLP-315 colour laser printer attached via USB.
• It can also print through a Netgear PS110 (my print server) on a HP LJ1100A and a HP LJ4L, both pretty ancient but functional b&w laser printers, attached through parallel cables.

What is still missing in the team is my Canon PIXMA MX310, a combi device that I mostly use for batch scanning enterprise documents and for sending documents by fax. That device is attached via USB to a rather simple (and fanless) machine (a NEO) running WinXP, running through pretty all of the year.


Just for the completeness of the presentation: Incoming fax documents get received by that FRITZ!Box, and that lovely devices creates PDF-s from them and forwards them as e-mail attachments to one of my IMAP mail boxes out there.