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10 December 2005, 0:06 UTC in software

Reverse Engineering the Samsung ML-2010 laser printer


Ingrid recently bought a Samsung ML-2010 laser printer. The price was attractive, and it seems to be a good printer. However, there is either the choice of a an open-source driver for a different printer model, one which doesn't support the 1200x600DPI mode, or a closed-source driver which comes on the included CDROM.

I'm going to try to reverse engineer the new format, which is called "SPL II" in the GUI and "QPDL" in the generated file (@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = QPDL). My approach is to print a postscript file using the binary driver, saving the result to a local file. At no time do I plan to disassemble the binary software provided by Samsung.

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