Is there any way to my Samsung ML-1660 printer working with *Ubuntu 16.04 LTS????!!!

[Bas G. Roufs - in English]

Hello Everybody.

When working with Kubuntu 14.04 and some previous versions, the system 
recognised my Samsung ML-1660 right away or after a few quick tweaks. However, 
at Kubuntu 16.04 LTS, the printer is even not being recognised - not via CUPS, 
also not via the printer settings at SYSTEM SETTINGS, not even via the command 
line command lsusb. Now, I am working at a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04. 
Splix, a package with drivers for amongst others my printer, has been 
installed there by default - however, this does not help. The latest version 
of the "unified driver" from Samsung itself is from 2013 - I do not dare any 
more to use that one. 

At 14.04 and in previous versions, it was possible to manually install a ppd-
file of such a Splix driver for Samsung ML-1660. Both at CUPS and at SYSTEM 
SETTINGS > printers, an online list of many printer drivers showed up after a 
few clicks; here at *Ubuntu Xenial, this list does not show up any more. 

At "Ask Ubuntu" and various other websites, I have seen that several others 
have problems to get their printers and scanners started via *Ubuntu 16.04. - 
this applies for any flavour of Ubuntu and for several models of printers and 
scanners that work out of the box in other versions of *Ubuntu. However, so 
far, I did not find any remedy that has helped me.

Is there any way to get my printer working again????!!!  Do I need to upgrade 
to 16.10 or to install again 14.04? Or is there any other measure you can 
recommend?

Yours,
Bas G. Roufs.

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