Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
by vetinari on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:39AM
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It does not have to be ancient printer; I present you Samsung SL-M2070W, which HP is still selling under some other designation.
I can print in MacOS, but I cannot scan. It used to work, but color scanning was broken few years ago, and about two years ago b/w scanning was broken too - Preview or Image Capture will just produce something malformed.
There used to be a workaround using Samsung scanning utility, but it doesn't work since Catalina, due to the utility being 32-bit app.
So what I do? RDP into other machine that does not have such problems (either Linux or Windows) and then transfer the scanned file.
I can print in MacOS, but I cannot scan. It used to work, but color scanning was broken few years ago, and about two years ago b/w scanning was broken too - Preview or Image Capture will just produce something malformed.
There used to be a workaround using Samsung scanning utility, but it doesn't work since Catalina, due to the utility being 32-bit app.
So what I do? RDP into other machine that does not have such problems (either Linux or Windows) and then transfer the scanned file.
So much for "just works".