SpliX: port request

[Lewis Rosenthal]

SpliX is a set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers.

From ​OpenPrinting:

Note that the original author of the driver, Aurelien Croc, doe not have time any more to do further development and maintenance on the driver. Currently user-supplied patches and fixes are applied by Till Kamppeter to the Subversion repository of the driver and there were no releases and web site updates in the last two years. If you are packaging the driver for a Linux distribution, it is highly recommended to use a Subversion snapshot and not the 2.0.0 release.

When printing from CUPS to a Samsung printer, SpliX is a requirement to get full, native support from such a device.

Suggested sources:

​https://gitlab.com/ScumCoder/splix

(includes patches added by third parties through February 5, 2015).

Sourceforge page (for reference):

​https://sourceforge.net/projects/splix/

Additional info:

While SpliX is GPL, it does utilize JBIG, which was patented by IBM, Mitsubishi, and AT&T. The last of those expired in the US in 2012. SpliX does not appear to utilize JBIG2, so it should be unencumbered by any remaining software patents.

[Silvan Scherrer]

are you able to test this at all? as I have neither a samsung nor any other of the supported devices.
with r2000 the port should be functional, but still. rpm will be available as test soon.

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Thanks!

I've made a request on the testers' list for people with Samsung printers to test. If nobody steps up, I'll pick a printer and procure one myself.

[Silvan Scherrer]

rpm is up btw. but not much tested. so closing this, as if it doesn't work, we need a new ticket anyway.