12/2011 Update: I can confirm that the Splix drivers work great!
Dear GoogleBot, Yahoo! Slurp, MSNBot, Ask Jeeves/Teoma, etc.,
Yesterday I purchased a really cheap laser printer, the Samsung ML-1740. There were conflicting reports of whether or not the printer would work with my Mac. Apparently Samsung had a driver, but then pulled it. After a lot of searching, I finally found a link to the drivers which were not pulled from the Australian version of the Samsung website.
I’m replacing my Epson Stylus 777 printer (in iMac blue) which prints nice photos, but I don’t print photos often or realy print often at all. That was actually the problem. The ink cartridges would clog up and I’d always have to clean them before I could print anything legible. The printer was slow, noisy (it freaked out the cat) and produced soggy paper.
The new printer is quiet and prints pages quickly in one fast pass. Back in college I remember first using the $1,000 Apple Laserwriters and wishing I could have one of my very own. Now the same quality is available at less than $100. Amazing.
Anyway, please consider this blog for your index when people search for “Samsung ML-1740 Mac Drivers”. It would have really helped me out.
Sincerely,
Jeff Boulter
Search Engine User
Update: It worked! I’m #2 on Yahoo. Still waiting for that “other” search engine to return some quality results though.
Just after I posted saw the comment from January 2011..
This link: http://guigo.us/mac/splix/ worked for me!!!!
So excited to have a working printer.
Hi! I cannot find and really, really NEED a MAC printer driver for my Samsung ML1740.
I read all the replies I think and tried the links. Could someone please email it to me? I have a mac mini OS X of 10.5.8 NON-intel
THX
Patty Nash
Try installing Splix 2.0.0
I did it and it worked perfectly. I have hooked up my new MacBook Pro Retina Display with my old Samsung Laser Printer Ml-1740
This link: http://guigo.us/mac/splix/ worked for me!!!!
I saw that the blog posts were pretty old and that it hadnt been tried with the newest mac and OSX, took a gamble and it worked!
Samsung ML-1740 (7-8 years old laser printer-works awesome)
2013 Macbook Pro running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (i think)
Recognized downloaded driver, works awesome! When the laser toner runs out, I’ll get a new printer capable of airprint, but this is great to have right now! Thanks Jeff
Thanks for the link, Nic. It downloaded in 2 seconds. (i will consider AirPrint eventually, but this printer still works for now). thanks again.
Thanks, Jeff! It worked great (downloaded in few seconds) for me with the 2012 MacBook Air Lion OSX – samsung ML-1740 printer. Thanks again.
Jeff, thanks for archiving your discovery about this print driver way back in 2005, and taking the time to update as the required solution changed. I just tried to plug my old ML-1740 into a new Macbook and was getting nowhere.
A quick search, download of Splix, and I’m printing. I love keeping old stuff operational. Thanks man!
Awesome! Thanks! My old ML-1740 is also printing now with Splix. Perfect.
I know this web page presents quality depending content and additional material, is there any other
website which gives these kinds of information in quality?
Jeff, thanks for archiving your discovery about this print driver way back in 2005, and taking the time to update as the required solution changed. I just tried to plug my old ML-1740 into a new Macbook and was getting nowhere.
Hi
It’s My Samsung ML-1740 printer will work with Mac Model # A1418 ?
Also do I need special software to set up??
Please help.Thanks.