Problems with Samsung SCX-4100

Yesterday I purchased a brand new Samsung SCX-4100 multifunction printer/scanner/copier. Its a cheap one, with a little bit annoying Russian language set by default. Buttons are also titled in Russian. another rather unconfortable thing is that there is no printed User’s guide – only digital one in the CD. Machine supports both, LPT and USB connection, but only the LPT cabble is included to the package. So I had no choice but to use this one to connect the printer to my PC.
And here the show begins. Copier works just fine, as it is processed internaly, but PC scanning is not working. Machine starts scanning and then displays a message “Port is disabled”. Hmm, interesting… What about printing? If we print plain text, it is alright, but when we come to more complex tasks, such as tables or pictures, strange things begin. Instead of a picture printer prints such message:

INTERNAL ERROR – FALSE
positionL 0x7d06f (512111)
system: h6fw/xl_image
line: 476
version: qpdl 1.22 12-02-2003

Quite informative, huh? Anyway, we have Google Almight at our hand, don’t we? Let’s give it a try – “Samsung SCX-4100 WinXP install problems”. No good… Lets take another look… And another.. And another… No good. After a long evening and quite a pile of paper ruined I found a site where similar error is mentioned. Cool!!! Just one problem – they write in Italian there Anyway, Altavista’s Babelfish gives me a hand in this case. Just to find out that nothing useful is written there…
This morning i took my last shoot – bought an USB cable. And you know what? It works