After many and many, many, … tests, I finally got a working configuration for my MultiFunction Samsung Printer (SCX 3405W) with “Scan to PC” button.
This button allow a direct scan to a configured computer (Mac or Windows, even if the config in Windows is really simple and automatic) from your printer: you can remain on your printer (scanner), change as many document as you want, and go back to your computer just in the end with all documents saved in the desired format.
First of all you need to install “Samsung Easy Printer Manager” software on your Mac, start it, and go to Advanced Mode.
Here you a have to select a folder where you want to put the scanned documents. But, in any manual I found information that images are sent using the samba protocol. This means you should allow sharing on that folder in read/write mode!!
Then you have just to select “Enable” radio button at the top of the advanced windows in Easy Printer Manager and click save (if you want, before saving you can change all other parameters you want).
When you click save you have a window asking you for an ID to use to identify the computer. With my computer (Italian language with French Keyboard) when I tried to type anything in the textbox I got a message saying that the input was not allowed (?!!?).
Here again I finally found that you can just add and use the USA keyboard layout and you can type your ID!
If all worked well you should have a popup message saying that all parameters were correctly saved! Then you can go to your printer, click on “Scan to” button and magically found your PDF/JPEG/… on the selected folder!
That’s all!
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Florian Schneider
12/12/2012 at 08:43 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Thank you very much for your instructions to get the “Scan to PC”-Button work.
Greetings from Regensburg, Germany
Florian
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mmornati Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 08:44
You’re welcome Florian. Greetings to you too.
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Tom
07/01/2013 at 22:44 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hi Marko!
you are the best!! It works!
Thanks from Berlin, Germany!
Tom
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Marc
19/01/2013 at 17:10 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Hats off!!
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Philotech
12/04/2013 at 02:46 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Still doesn’t work for me. I can’t type anything into the ID field (and several others). Always get the ‘language not allowed’ error message, even though I’ve tried all English and US keyboard layouts. PLEASE HELP! What else have you set
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Philotech
12/04/2013 at 03:07 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Got it to work now. I had to change the main system language to US English too. Just the keyboard language was not sufficient in my case.
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Philotech
12/04/2013 at 08:38 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
@Marco:
Now that I got some sleep, thanks so much for this post! I would have given up trying to mess with languages to make this work after switching to US didn’t work for me. I think your post is the single only one on the ‘net covering this bug. It’s a mystery to my why noone else has stumbled upon this. Nobody outsinde the US using Macs?
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Marco Mornati
15/04/2013 at 09:58 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
@Pilotech:
Hi, good to ear that you fixed your problem. And yes, is the same thing that I thought: how samsung could provide a software that works only with USA Mac?! I think all over the world there are people using it!!
I wrote to Samsung for this but no response received :S
Marco
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Philotech
15/04/2013 at 10:39 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Marco,
please let me know when you hear back from Samsung. I’d love to hear their explanation (or better even see their bug fix).
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wolle Reply:
May 3rd, 2013 at 20:29
What is the “scan-id”, where can I find it?
i can enter (no problems with the language issue after switsching to english) in the field, but the scan-to button gets deactivated, when i try to save.
Maybe I´m stupid, tried everything from computer-name to macadress….
Help would be great.
wo
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Philotech
03/05/2013 at 21:19 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
The scan ID is just a name for your computer that you can choose. I’m not quite sure what does not work for you.
As a separate matter: I have upgraded my Samsung Xpress M2875FW with the latest firmware from Samsung’s website, and suddenly it couldn’t register any longer with Google Cloud Print. Samsung and their German local service partner have just confirmed to me that the latest firmware breaks Google Cloud Print, so DON’T INSTALL IT if you are using GCP!
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wolle Reply:
May 4th, 2013 at 20:20
Thank you for the answer,
in the following description there might be some language inconsistencies, because i use the german version:
in “samsung easy printer manager” i open the page with “scan via pc”, the first line has two checkboxes, the left one: “use the scan-to funktion”, on the right: “deaktivate”
i change to checked the left one, i choose “save” down right, then the window to enter the scan-ID opens. i can enter whatever i want in the scan-id enterfield, the checkbox for passwordusage and the fields for entering the password stay gray, deaktivated. No way to enter something there. After hitting the OK button, the scan/to checkbox at the top of the page turns unchecked and the button deaktivate is checked again.
No idea how to get further, created a new user and gave them read&write privileges for the desired folder, gave everybody read&write privileges, enabled filesharing, turned off the littlesnitch, tried this username, nothing.
wo
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Philotech
04/05/2013 at 23:13 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
Strange. Appears you can’t save changes on the MFP.
A side note: The password issue is irrelevant however: This is just if you want people scanning from the M2875 to enter a password first. Pretty much a business feature only.
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Jonas
26/05/2013 at 17:27 (UTC 2) Link to this comment
I followed the post but when I press “Save” the button goes back to “Disable” from the previously chosen “Enable Scan from Device Panel”, what did I do wrong??
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Marco Reply:
May 26th, 2013 at 21:34
Hi, is your destination folder shared with the samba protocol? Is it public (no password required for connection)?
Marco
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