It seems that at least some copies of this printer have a firmware
bug which results in problems with the PostScript and PCL-XL modes.
In these modes the first job after turning on the printer is printer
correctly but subsequent jobs come out as garbage characters in text
mode, as if the printer did not get the beginning of the file and
then prints the rest as text. Turning off the printer and turning it
on again allows one correct PostScript or PCL-XL job again. The
printer works reliably in PCL-5e mode though. Therefore the
"hpijs-pcl5e" driver is the recommended driver. So if your printer
has the described problem, switch to the hpijs-pcl5e driver and
turn it off and on again. See this
Ubuntu bug report.
Bug in Samsung-supplied PPD-file: OpenOffice.org 2.0 seems to
have a problem with the ML-2570ps-ppd driver - it only prints in
the top right-hand quarter of the page. OOo works fine with the
generic PCL6 driver (pxlmono) and Postscript driver. No other
applications known to have any problems with the ML-2570ps.ppd
driver. This can be fixed by editing the ML-2570ps.ppd-file, which
has a bug. Simply delete or edit the first line after
"*DefaultPaperDimension: A4". It is saying something
like *PaperDimension A4/A4: "842 1191", which is
defining the paper size of A3. The correct entries for A4 are some
lines below. So either delete this line or replace it by
*PaperDimension A3/A3: "842 1191"
Foomatic entry made by PPDtoXML T/G 0.20 on 2008-09-07
Driver for Samsung SPL2 (ML-1710, ...) and SPLc (CLP-500, ...) laser
printers
Supplier: SpliX project License: GPL (free software, show license text) This driver contains algorithms which are (possibly) patented (See license text).
