Samsung ML-1740 Printer Drivers for Macs
8/10/2007 Update: a new driver from Samsung is available. I haven’t tried it.
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. They’ll eventually remove them from there too, so I’ve uploaded a copy of the drivers to my site.
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.
June 14th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Now if I could only get MY printer to work from my laptop.
June 17th, 2005 at 9:12 am
Do not buy Epson inkjet printers. Someone should start a class action lawsuit. There is clearly a design flaw that causes the heads to clog.
June 23rd, 2005 at 8:29 pm
Found your post by searching for “ML-1740″ Mac on Google. It was exactly what I was looking for.
July 3rd, 2005 at 8:44 am
Thanks! I wasn’t sure whether or not to buy this printer but now I’m sold
July 10th, 2005 at 10:51 am
The download link is not working, 404.
The link from the external site to the Australian Samsung site worked just fine. It says “U.S.A. Mac OS not supported” next to the download link.
Thanx for the info.
July 17th, 2005 at 6:30 pm
What happened to your local copy?
July 17th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
Fixed. I can’t spell.
July 17th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
Thanks Jeff! I was just trying to do this today myself.
July 25th, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Thanks a ton! Your page came up first on Google for the Mac OS X drivers for the printer! Thanks for uploading them since Samsung pulled the drivers.
August 2nd, 2005 at 5:52 pm
Thanks for the driver support. Samsung is a huge company to be making a mistake in its hardware support that is this big. They are retarded for not having the drivers. I am downloading it now.
Best,
Robert
August 4th, 2005 at 6:18 am
I downloaded the drivers from Samsung’s Australian Web site (they were still there as of 8/3/05). Everything worked perfectly the first time I installed them. I bought this printer for $35 (after an $80 rebate) and it was an amazingly good deal. It is fast, quiet, compact and the print quality is very good. I suspect they are trying to blow these out the door before introducing a USB 2.0 version or perhaps a network compatible version. I normally don’t do much printing at home. I have a Brother multifunction inkjet printer (printer/fax/copier/scanner). It’s works well, but is an unbelievable ink hog. It seems to go through periodic cleaning of the print heads that literally pours ink from the cartridge. It’s asking me to replace color cartridges after 3 months when I haven’t printed anything in color. Anyway, I bought the Samsung to use as my primary home printer (I prefer to print photos online). If it continues to work this well, I may give it my personal “Deal of the Year” award.
August 28th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
I bought this printer today for my son’s little computer for fourth grade reports. Problem is his CD drive is not functioning so I’m not able to load the driver. Does anyone know of a compatible driver that might work to connect the printer?
August 31st, 2005 at 10:06 am
Sorry for the (possibly) incongruent message. I just wanted to thank Jeff for the ML-1740 driver for my MAC. I was gonna buy a new printer (that I used with a PC). I’m so glad I can use it with my new MAC.
Thanks a ton!
mikethesam
September 1st, 2005 at 11:22 am
Like you, I bought a cheap Samsung Laser Printer (ML-1610) - no Mac driver! After hours of frustration with S’s “customer support” my daughter told me to search the Web. I did & found you! Thanks a bundle. This did in seconds what S couldn’t do in hours.
Roy
September 12th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
I struggled with and even hired a Mac technician to install the driver for a Samsung ML-1740 on my iBook G4. No luck. Then I threw away the USB to parallel port cable and purchased an A to B USB cable, hooked it to my eMac G4 and installed the driver from your site. It works perfectly and prints 15-20 copies a minute. Sweet little printer. Thanks!
September 13th, 2005 at 8:59 am
Thanks much for posting this driver!
September 17th, 2005 at 5:24 am
A true lifesaver. When I bought my ML-1610, I knew that there was no official Mac support, but it said something about Linux compatibility, so I figured I should get it to work using the Linux .ppds. Sadly, this method did not work. I was about to give up when I found your site.
Thanks again.
September 21st, 2005 at 10:21 pm
When I got my ml 1610 i just presumed it was mac compatible.. i just discovered when I loaded the cd driver that came with it that it wasn’t mac compatible… i couldn’t believe it considering were in the year 2005 and how samsung could be so obsolete.. now thanks to your website or else i could have disposed my ml 1610…
September 27th, 2005 at 10:38 am
The new Samsung ML-2010 is pretty much an exact replica of the Dell 1100, so we have to figure the OSX driver for the ML-2010 on Samsung’s web site would work on the 1100. I don’t have a Mac (yet), so I can’t confirm, but it looks like it’s worth a try…
September 28th, 2005 at 6:53 am
Jeff,
I purchased my ML-1740 about a year ago and recently got a new Mac. I found that I couldn’t find the driver until I did a search and found your site. You’re a lifesaver. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
October 1st, 2005 at 12:32 pm
With this driver, will a ML-1610 work with airport express?
October 4th, 2005 at 10:22 am
We got a couple of Dell 1100 lasers the other day, tried installing the ML-2010 driver, but it didn’t work. The “Print” button in the print dialog doesn’t work while the printer is setup, and you can’t “save as PDF” or preview either. Deleting the printer in the Printer Setup Utility fixes the issue, I can print to other printers now. But it looks like I might have to send this printer back and get one from a company that actually tries to make products that work with Macs.
October 5th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Thanks Jeff for putting up the drivers. Otherwise i had to take back my samsung 1610 laserprinter to the store.
The greatest thing however that is also works with airport express!!
October 28th, 2005 at 6:10 pm
Thanks Jeff this really helped!
I brought this low end printer in for a MAC user and low and behold there were no drivers or support for his Mac
I searched and searched and finally found yoru Blog.
You rescued me an him
thanks again
October 31st, 2005 at 6:54 am
I got the ML-1740 for $49 after rebate, and have been using it with the PCs at myhouse. Then I got a Mac Mini and Linda got an iBook. Thanks to your site we were able to get both of them working with the Samsung with little trouble.
I agree with all the other posts saying how much better a laser printer is than an inkjet. We suffered through a series of Epson, Canon, HP inkjets, all of which had at least one ink cartridge empty most of the time (”didn’t we just buy a cartridge?”). We are still on the 1000 page starter toner cartridge on the Samsung. I figure the regular 3000 page replacement cartridge will last us for years.
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:55 pm
I need help. I am new to Apple and just purchased an Imac G5. The Samsung has been a great printer for my windows machine, but am having trouble installing the driver on my new Apple.
Once downloaded, the driver will not launch without me choosing the correct application. Please advise on how to install driver once it has been downloaded.
Any assistance is appreciated.
November 10th, 2005 at 5:13 am
Todd: you have to have Stuffit expander to uncompress the file. Go to Versiontracker.com under Mac OSX and look for the free stuffit application.
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I bought an ML-1610 yesterday because the Canadian Samsung website said it’s Mac Compatible. Lucky I found this site or I’d be only able to test pages!
November 14th, 2005 at 12:33 am
Thank you for this. You have saved me from feeling an idiot!
Bought this printer for my Mum & Dad because I had the previous model happily running on my mac. Then find out that there isn’t a driver. So, thanks to you & thanks to Google for helping me find you.
Malcolm
November 28th, 2005 at 7:26 am
I see the drivers work with the 1740, but do they work with the 1610 or not? I want one but not if it doesn’t work with the mac. Tanks!
December 1st, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Thanks for the help with the driver. I hope No one will end this support. Perhaps Samsung will fix this oversight??
December 1st, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Hello - please help!!! I bought a Dell 1100 printer and i’m trying to find a driver that’s compatible with my Apple Powerbook.
If you can find one, please email me the link (shaynacp1@yahoo.com)
thanks,
shayna
December 17th, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Thx, this wat i’m looking for~~~
December 22nd, 2005 at 3:23 pm
For miracles, I don’t believe in God, but I trust the Mac community !
Thank you very much, Jeff, for this tip.
I bought a ML-1610 printer labelled “Mac compatible” in the store.
But nothing for Mac in the CD of the printer box.
I asked the french Samsung customer service :
they told me there was no Samsung mac driver for this printer !
I downloaded today the Mac 2.5 driver installer from the australian Samsung website
( it is the same driver for several models of laser printers ).
It created a SAMSUNG folder in the library/printers folder.
Then in the “add” dialog box of the printing center of my Mac OS,
“Samsung SPL2.5″ appears as a valid driver for my ML-1610 USB printer.
And it works !
December 30th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Does anyone know if I can get the ML-1610 to work
using Mac OS 9.2?
I tried installing the ML-1740 driver using the installer herein,
but it won’t install…
anyone have a workaround, or can suggest a different
model of printer to use with OS 9?
thanks!
January 10th, 2006 at 9:05 am
YUSSS! thanks brohammer
January 11th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
I have a Samsung ML-1740 and am using OS-X Tiger (10.4). I can’t find a driver to make the printer work. The Australian Samsung website appears not to work.
Can anyone help?
January 15th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Jeff,
I have a Samsung ML1430. I got it about 4 years ago, slipped the “install” disk into an iMac, using system 9, and it worked fine. Subsequently I tried the same with another–I thought identical–Imac, and every time I tried to print the computer froze.
I have lost that disc, and am now using System X 10.4. Any ideas on where I might find the program to make the Samsung M:L-430 work with it?? Or should I even risk it, in your view??
Many thanks,
Dave Mayo
January 16th, 2006 at 6:57 am
Hi Jeff,
I found your printer driver through a google search of “Samsung printer drivers + mac” and you came up 6th.
Cheers and Thanks
Dan
January 20th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
who needs MAC anyway
LOL
Switch to linux, if you don’t have a driver, make it!
January 24th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
It seems the australian site has another version available… confusing since it’s numbered SPL2 (as opposed to 2.5) and says “Mac OS X 10.2.4 or higher, Mac OS X 10.4″ but the driver you posted sometimes gets wacked out and requires a reinstall. This other one doesn’t have that problem it seems.
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/productsupport/download/Model_Select.aspx?type=Printer&typecode=15&subtype=Laser+Printer&cmssubtypecode=1501&model=ML-1740&filetype=DR&language=
cheers,
dave
January 31st, 2006 at 2:18 pm
This driver works for ML-1210 on OSX.4. Thanks for publishing this life-saver! I’ve posted a link to your site in the Mac forums. JP
February 4th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Hi, I was going to buy one of those printers tomorrow after reading the rave reviews. I was thinking about the ml 1740. But I’m not fussy
Does anyone know if it will be compatible with an imac, using os 9.2.2? Or if there is a more compatible Samsung model for this system?
Many thanks
Thomas
February 10th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Like they all say above, thanks for making me not feel so foolish for listening to a salesman’s schmooze when I bought an ML-1610 thinking it would work with OS X. Much appreciated!
February 11th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
samsung ml-1740 driver osx for me
February 13th, 2006 at 4:25 am
I’m a lifelong Mac user. I just got the ML-1610 without knowing it did not support Mac. I downloaded the driver, but every time I try to open it all it does is open word but shows nothing. Any help would be appreciated.
February 13th, 2006 at 6:45 am
Fantastic Jeff, thanks for that. I had of course been lied to in the shop that sold me the printer, however it is nowworking fine thanks to your website…
February 15th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Jeff, I want to thank you for this driver. It works perfectly with my ML-1430 Samsung. I could not get it to syncronize with my PC network printer before. After installing this, it found it and made it the default printer. You have done a wonderful service to the mac-impaired users like me. God bless you!
February 20th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Jeff or anyone else,
I have an ML-1740, very happy with the quality. This is the same very sturdy print engine in most Samsung fax machines and I am looking forward to having this printer a while. It prints from both my Mac and my wife’s PC via the dual input (USB and RS-232) but from my Mac it prints stuff last page first in reverse order so that the last page printed is actually the first one in the document.
Its not the printer per se as my wife’s computer prints normally.
Any suggestions?
February 20th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
hey, i downloaded the driver for my samsung ml-1740. but where do i put it in after i download?
March 1st, 2006 at 1:26 am
Jim, In the print window select “paper handling” then either check or uncheck the “reverse page order ” box, then save this in your preset.
March 1st, 2006 at 1:32 am
Has anyone been able to get the 1610 to work with a USB printserver? I’m trying to use an IOGEAR GPSU01. I can print when connected to my usb port, but none of the drivers work with the printserver.
Anyone?
March 7th, 2006 at 6:58 am
It seems the org.downloadcenter.samsung.com is down, (regardless of the country of origin). It’s been down since last night around 9pm…
March 19th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I can confirm that as of March 19th I was still able to download the Samsung driver’s using the link David Donovan provided:
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/productsupport/download/Model_Select.aspx?type=Printer&typecode=15&subtype=Laser+Printer&cmssubtypecode=1501&model=ML-1740&filetype=DR&language=
I’m off to test these drivers with a Samsung ML-1430, Mac OSX 10.4.5, iMac G5.
I’ll report back on compatibility and speed.
Huge thanks Jeff!
March 19th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
OK, I seems that Samsung has created a Global Download Center that hosts Mac drivers for all their printers regardless of whether those printers are supported in your country. Why they wouldn’t support Mac drivers in the US I can’t understand but at least they now seem to make the drivers available!
You should be able to find any driver you need by going to:
http://www.samsung.com/download/index.aspx?agreement=y
I found this page thanks to this thread on http://www.macfixitforums.com (scroll down to Madhatter’s post):
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum39&Number=718246&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=31&fpart=
April 14th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
I just got a Mac and was delighted to find your website. Very happy with my samsung ML-1740. But I was having printing problems when I switched back to the samsung from another printer and couldn’t print. so i had to remove it and tried to add it back with the download I already had from you. that didn’t work so i tried to download the drivers again. But nothing happens when i click on the download. did you remove those. any way to get a copy??? Desperate woudl would be grateful.
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:32 pm
FANTASTIC!!! THANK YOU! 1610 works like a charm now on my mac!
May 7th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Hi - I was wondering if anyone has been able to get the ML-1430 to work with the Airport Express and OS X? Thanks!
Shaun
May 9th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
a useful printer software
http://www.yaodownload.com/utilites/printers/ned-image-printer-driver-2000-source-code/
May 24th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Hello,
I’m very glad that I found this site. I switched from PC to MAC this month. I’m using a Macbookpro now and I’m enjoying it thoug I’m not an experienced MAC user. But there is a little problem. I still have a DELL 1100 Laserprinter which I used with my PC. I would like to keep this good printer and get it working on my macbook pro. Does anybody knows a solution? I’ve tried to install that ML-1740 driver, Stuffit opens it but nothing will happen.
Thank you in advance for your help.
regards,
Jeroen
May 28th, 2006 at 9:27 am
Hello,
I’ve solved the problem jet, it was due my lack of Macintosh experience…
So forget the upper message.
Anyway, thanks and good luck with this usefull site.
Regards,
Jeroen
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:36 am
Does this information apply equally to Intel-based Macs? Some manufacturers (e.g. Oki) have drivers which although fine for OSX 10.4 only actually work on Power-based machines.
If anyone has an ML1610 working on OSX 10.4.6 on an Intel-based machine I’d be delighted to hear about it.
Many thanks,
Tony
June 11th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Thanks all works fine with your driver ml-170 i buy a ml-1610 because the box says os x compatible.
Thanks !!!!
June 19th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Thanks Jeff, I got my Samsung ML-1610 working with the drivers that you had posted.
June 24th, 2006 at 12:46 am
My Dear Jeff
Got the ML-1610 free with a 17″ LCD monitor here in India.
Got a shock when I realised that it was not MAC compatible.
Would have dumped the printer had I not got onto your site via Google.
Bless YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 25th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Jeff,
A life saver you are for making this available!
A tip for those of you with Intel based Macs (MacBook Pro, MacBook, Mini, iMac, …):
First, instal the driver as normal. If you try to add the printer at this time with “Printer Setup Utility” you won’t find the driver you just installed. To make it work, simply open “Get Info” for “Printer Setup Utility” (which lives in the “Utilities” folder) and check the “Open using Rosetta” box (found under the “General:” heading). Then run “Printer Setup Utility” and it should automatically find the driver. Done!
Thanks again Jeff!
June 26th, 2006 at 4:29 am
Thanks Jeff and Jason.
Trying to hook my MacBook Pro up to a Samsung ML-1610 at a place where I do some work a couple of days a week was proving a nightmare until I found this page. Works great in MS-Word, etc, but for some reason haven’t succeeded in printing a pdf via Preview yet. Ideas anyone?
June 27th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Thanks for maintaining a critical resource. I ran a USB A to B from my Powerbook G4 to the ML-1740, installed your driver, and achieved instant success. Profound thanks. -Pete
June 27th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I must be the biggest moron in the world because I still cant figure this out.
I have a MAC OS X.
I downloaded the driver. I unstuffed it and it went through an installation and
then it told me that I had to restart the computer. I restarted the computer.
Now, what do I do? I tried printing but the only printer is LaserWriter and when
I try to print with that, it errors out. I cant find the Samsung printer anywhere
even though it looked like it installed.
July 1st, 2006 at 9:29 pm
searched for “samsung ml1740 mac osx driver” with google.com.
you are a life saver
July 3rd, 2006 at 8:17 am
thanks!
(oh, erich: after that you say print, in that dialogue you can “add printer” and in the next dialogue it will find the “samsung”. select it, and you are ready. )
July 5th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
I already owned this printer but had lost my driver disk. This is a great service, thank you. Oh, and to make everyone feel bad, I recently saw this printer (or a similar model) on sale at Office Depot for $29 after rebate. Amazing.
-Chet
July 9th, 2006 at 5:09 am
Samsung ML-1610 and mac osx driver.
Stumbled across this thread is search of a solution. Now have my Samsung ML-1610 up and running on Mac OS X 10.3.9 . Used the following driver found on the Samsung international site:
http://www.samsung.com/download/FileView.aspx?cttfileid=483777&type=Printer&typecode=15&subtype=Laser+Printer&subtypecode=1501&model=ML-1615&filetype=DR&language=
Works perfectly - on boot up usb printer instantly recognised. Also have used the driver to set up access to printer via a Netgear PS1 USB Print Server. Again worked first time.
July 10th, 2006 at 5:49 am
Bart,
I added a printer and it printed webpages and text from a program called TextEditor.
I have MS Office installed and tried printing via Ms Word. When I do, it says that I must
first select a printer from Chooser. So I click on Chooser and I see 3-things; FaxPrinter,
AppleTalk and LaserWriter. I dont see Samsung under Chooser. Everytime I print via
Excel or Word, I always have LaserWriter selected and consequently it doesnt print.
Is there any way to make the Samsung add to the list of printers under Chooser (so
that I can choose it)?
If I can get it print using Word, I will dance with joy!!
-Erich
July 25th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
I have no problems installing the drivers posted by Jeff or on Samsung’s site when the printer is DIRECTLY connected to my Macbook Intel.
However, the Samsung printers are NOT available in the drop-down menus when I tried to add some of these Samsung printers that are hooked up to and shared by Windows PCs.
OS X’s “Add Printer Utility” has no problem browsing to the Windows Network, finding these PCs that have the Samsungs connected to them, but the utility just won’t LIST the Samsung drivers when I try to add the same printers over the Windows Network.
Any thoughts or ideas on this? HELP is required and appreciated!!
August 1st, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Hi. I just wanted to say a huge thanks for the driver you have hosted. I did a google search and you came up. The driver has installed flawlessly in mac osx (10.1). I will be linking to you through my own blog.
August 1st, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Jeff, it really is good of you to maintain these drivers. I found them on the australian site about a year ago when I was trying to network my wife’s g4 tower to the ML-1430 through my Dell. It has worked fine. Now I’ve bought a MacBook, and I’m having the exact same problem OP is having two posts above this. I can, incidentally, print wirelessly from my MacBook by connecting to my wife’s computer’s drivers (so the data goes wirelessly from my laptop to her desktop and then through cable to the dell…which is ok, I guess, but I hate to have 3 computers burning constantly. It was bad enough that the Dell had to be on all the time as an ersatz printer server. If anybody can finds a solution for OP’s question, that would help me, too.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 am
Hello Jeff,
I thought I should leave this message… I just got the driver (ML-1740) from the Australian site, installed on my Intel Based Mac G5 and it printed. The bad news is that now, it is taking almost 3 minutes to boot my machine.
Perhaps, the driver affects other parts of OSX. Do you have any suggestions?
THANKS!
August 4th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Jeff and community…
Never mind… After two days, I found out that I had a dead hard drive slowing down my boot!
Everything works just fine.
Thanks for the tip.
August 6th, 2006 at 5:04 am
Morning,
First, thanks for this website - truly. I wouldn’t have bought the Samsung 1610 if I had not found your solution to the driver problem. I remain amazed and encouraged that there are so may people that volunteer their time helping others through the Internet.
Now on to the challenge. So far I have not found a way to darken the printing. It is acceptable but on the light side. Any help is appreciated.
August 11th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
I was having so much trouble installing my boyfriend’s printer on my mac I was worried I’d have to buy another one. thanks so much !
August 13th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Hi guys, i’m using PowerBook G4 with MacOS 10.4.7 installed. Recently my friend bought a ML 1610 and we are supposed to share it through LAN. The printer is installed on his laptop and i have to access his printer through the network.
After installing the 2.5 driver, getting my computer to recognise the printer is fine but I can’t find the proper model for the printer and it falls under the “Generic PostScript Printer” instead. Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance!
August 16th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Hi sorry to be really dim but I want to buy a Samsung ML-1610 so are you all saying the ML-1740 driver will work on it? I have an iMac G5 with OSX 10.3
Sorry not very good with this sort of thing.
August 25th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Thanks for this, I got the ML-1610 working with my Mac without a problem.
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:16 pm
Okay I am farely new to the whole branch of Apple computers. I have a MacBook MacOSX 10.4.7 I have the Samsung ML-1740 & my router is setup to use the Netgear PS101… Somehow everyone here seems to have gotten it ready & going, yet no one has typed out a detail install process? Like I have no clue how to install a driver? When I double clicked the file I downloaded here it tried opening with my Office 2004 for MAC…??? Anyone have a site or DOC file that has a good way of installing & getting to print via Router?
September 5th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Nice! Got my samsung ML-1610 going on OSX, thanks Jeff.
September 5th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Hi:
When I try to run the installer, i get this message:
The application “Samsung Printer Driver” could not be launched because of a shared library error: “ ”
Does somebody knows what’s wrong? Or maybe where can I get the files for /Library/Printers/SAMSUNG.
Don’t know if this is needed, but I have an iBook G4 running OSX 10.4.7.
September 5th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Jeff,
Thanks Man! This helped a lot although I still had a problem because of my Intel-based MacBook.
I followed Jason’s advice which I also quoted below and it works great! I got mine for $45 CDN.
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A tip for those of you with Intel based Macs (MacBook Pro, MacBook, Mini, iMac, …):
First, instal the driver as normal. If you try to add the printer at this time with “Printer Setup Utility” you won’t find the driver you just installed. To make it work, simply open “Get Info” for “Printer Setup Utility” (which lives in the “Utilities” folder) and check the “Open using Rosetta” box (found under the “General:” heading). Then run “Printer Setup Utility” and it should automatically find the driver. Done!
September 7th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Nope, can’t get it to work. Have an Intel Mac Mini, installed the driver, specified “Open using Rosetta”, and it still can’t see my *Ethernet network based* ML-1740 at all. I also can’t figure out the IP address of the printer either: is there some trick for figuring that out? Other thoughts or suggestions?
September 7th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Uh, um, ignore that last comment. Somehow it completely escaped my memory that the ML-1740 is a *USB-based* printer, not an Ethernet printer like so many of my others. Hooked it all up correctly and indeed, it works like a charm. Thanks, Jeff & Jason!
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Hi
Installed your driver - thanks. The MAC sees the printer, but I am unable to print! Help!!
September 24th, 2006 at 2:47 am
Hi Jeff
Spent the last weekend trying to find a driver for my ML-1610 - tried everything ghost, samsung gdi, gimp and many more without success - until i came across ure site, went to the australian samsung downloaded the all mac version - resetted my mac and there is was ML - 1740 - selected it and suddenly my ML-1610 came to life!
Thank you so much - i was even considering buying a new printer!
October 1st, 2006 at 10:05 am
I’m on an Intel MacBook running 10.4.8 with an ML-1430 printer. I can install the SPL drivers and my printer is recognized, but it will only print blank pages. Does anyone have any ideas?
I love this printer, and it works perfectly. Hate to not be able to use it.
October 1st, 2006 at 3:57 pm
[...] To google I went and found another of pages. Some saying that this printer was not supported!! Sadly the internet tells lies and a few links later I found this. Great tried it and didn’t work but clicked the link through and read this post even after playing with setttings, rossetta there was no hope. [...]
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I have an Intel Macbook and an ML-1430 printer, and when I follow the link in the post above this, and set my printer to use the ML-1210 Foomatic +GDI drivers… IT WORKS!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Thanks to your site, I found the Australian Samsung site for a mac driver for my Samsung ML-1740. It works great!
October 6th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Here’s the Samsung Australia download site: http://www.samsung.com/au/support/productsupport/download/
November 6th, 2006 at 11:31 am
HI JEFF, I READ YOUR ABOVE “THANK YOU LETTERS”
I HAVE A SAMSUNG ML-1430, I WOULD LIKE IT TO PRINT ON MY INTEL POWER BOOK. CAN YOU HELP?
IT RECOGNIZES THE PRINTER, BUT CAN’T FIND THE DRIVER!!
THANK YOU!
November 16th, 2006 at 7:48 am
man thanks so much for posting the driver! i have been searching forever to find it for my new mac, thanks!
November 19th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
I have a Samsung ML-1740 trying to connect to a new iMac desktop that I bought a few days ago.
I found you website and downloaded the driver.
How do I get it to install on the iMac?
Is there a list of steps to follow?
Does it have to be unzipped? If so, how to unzip?
Can we just have a check-off list of what to do from the time we download the driver?
Thank you!
Fred
December 13th, 2006 at 9:58 pm
Elsewehere on the web I found instructions for making a Dell 1100 work with a Macintosh.
Go here http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/samsung-gdi/ and get both files. Make sure the printer is connected and on. Install both open source files. (I installed the top one first. I don’t know if it matters.) Immediately add the printer in the usual way. It shows up as “Laser Printer 1100″. I printed one page. Let’s hope it all works.
December 19th, 2006 at 7:35 am
Thanks alot. I was going to give up on my Dell 1100 laser I purchased with my Dell laptop since I now use a Macbook and my wife has the Dell. Saved me some coin. I appreciate your efforts. Glad to have switched. Wish I had alot sooner.
Thanks Again
Terry.
December 25th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Thanks so much for posting these! It is ridiculous that Samsung doesn’t have the Mac drivers anywhere on their web site. I’m thrilled that I can now print from my new Mac.
December 26th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Thanks so much for posting this. We love our little Samsung, but I had despaired ever getting it to run on my new Mini Intel in 10.4. We were a little tired of the “paperless workstation”! I am a big Samsung advocate, but I have to rethink it if they are not going to make any effort to support the Mac user better than this! Thanks again to Jeff and everyone else for their advice. My kids now think I am a genius.
Scott
January 11th, 2007 at 6:59 am
any chance you still have thisdriver arond The links don’t seem to load anything?
January 12th, 2007 at 8:19 am
[...] To google I went and found another of pages. Some saying that this printer was not supported!! Sadly the internet tells lies and a few links later I found this. Great tried it and didn’t work but clicked the link through and read this post even after playing with setttings, rossetta there was no hope. [...]
January 18th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Hey I tried to download the file you have, but it doesnt seem to open. I was wondering if anyone could help me with driver for Samsung ML-1430
January 25th, 2007 at 8:26 am
[...] A few recent Mac switchers have been having problems getting their Samsung laser printers working, specifically an ML-1610 and an ML-1430. The drivers I found here aren’t available from Samsung themselves, but seem to work. I’ve mirrored them here: repackaged ZIP file, original SIT file. [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Samsung UK have a new version of the driver available, tried it with a ML 1610 via a belkin printer server and can report it works perfectly
March 15th, 2007 at 11:46 am
I’ve just bought the ML1610 and can’t get it working with my mac. I’ve tried downloading drivers for the 1210 and the 1740 like various websites advised but nothing. I’m pretty technophobic so I’m sure I’m going wrong somewhere but I don’t have a clue where. Does anyone know where I can find some step-by-step instructions for a computer amateur like me to understand?
April 18th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Thanks for the driver!!!!!
May 4th, 2007 at 6:33 am
I AM NIT THE DRAIVER FOUR THIS PRINTERS
May 7th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Hi Jeff!
So I have an ML-1430– and after hours of searching– your site is the only one that begins to help..however– everytime I try to download a driver, or even your file, classic 09 tries to open. Do you have any advice?
Leah
May 16th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
me parece bien
May 28th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Your prescience is a gift that keeps on giving. Thanks for making Samsung’s hard-to-find driver available for download!
June 4th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Used the installer and still not working… is there anything else I have to do that I’m not realizing? When I click the ‘+’ to add new printer, the comp still won’t find the driver on its own. I have ML-1740 and OS X 10.4.9.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!
June 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Jeff - Many thanks. You saved me from having to buy a new printer when I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro from my PC. Works like a charm!!!
June 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Congrats! You’re number one on Google now! Haven’t tried the drivers yet but I am confident they will work on my MacBook.
June 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I tried using the installer and it’s not working on my OS 10.4.9. What am I doing wrong. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
July 4th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Thanks Jeff, cheers
July 11th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Good News! I can confirm that I’m using the driver from the Australian site (v2.5) on 10.5 Leopard Beta and it works perfectly!
July 20th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Thanks for making this driver available, Jeff! I was able to get our Samsung ML-1740 to work on my MacBook Pro running 10.4.10
- Kent
July 28th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Hello Deane C. click on the next link and dowload zip file (just click on it)….
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/productsupport/download/FileView.aspx?cttfileid=196408&type=Printer&typecode=15&subtype=Laser+Printer&subtypecode=&cmssubtypecode=1501&model=ML-1740&filetype=DR&language=
then try to print any document, go to add printer and follow instructions…it works like a charm..
Thank you Jeff B. and David D.
Cheers
July 31st, 2007 at 7:25 am
Thanks for providing these drivers! I had to format and reinstall, and forgot to backup my copy of the drivers. Google helped me find your links so now I’ll be able to print again! yay!
July 31st, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
August 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am
confirmed that the latest SPL2 driver from Samsung Australia site works for Dell 1110, which is suppose to be a rebranded Samsung ML-1610.
August 12th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I just bought a Samsung ML-1610R in Korea.
Unfortunately, there is no driver for Mac in the package.
I tried 8/10/2007 Update: a new driver from Samsung is available link (see on top).
I installed the package and re-launched system preferences –> print and fax. Now, the brand name Samsung shows up in the list and I chose ML-1740.
It just worked fine, printing is good.
August 12th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
The link solved my problems with a Samsung ML-1740, thanks so much. Sadly, though, OS X 10.4.10 seems to have broken the printing capability via my Intel iMac, whether I’m networked or connecting directly to the machine. Setting Printer Setup Utility to run under Rosetta makes no difference.
The Samsung will still work on the network with our non-Intel Macs running 10.4.10. I’m so tired of seeing “server-error-service-unavailable”; I’ve been trying to resolve this for weeks now.
August 19th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Latest driver (Samsung SPL v0.97) worked like a dream with our 2-year-old ML-1740 connected to an AirPort Express setup as a wireless print server.
Upgraded the printer sharing host (Rev A iMac G5) to OS X 10.4.10 today, and lost the printer function somehow. Downloaded the v0.97 driver and installed on all the client Macs (MacBook Pros and the iMac, all now running 10.4.10) and it works fine.
Tips: Run the installer and then open the printer utility from the Preferences screen. Delete any previous instances of the ML-1740 and then create a new printer. Be sure and select the Bonjour version of the printer - if any other machines on your network have printer sharing turned on, you will see their shares as well, even if these machines’ printer settings are broken. If the installer ran correctly, the SPL 2.5 driver should AutoSelect. If not, you’ll have to browse for it.
Good Luck!
September 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
Thanks a lot fo this thread everyone! Finally got my Dell 1110 laser printer to work after 10 months, with the ML-1740 Samsung driver.
Merci!
September 28th, 2007 at 1:24 am
the link you have to drivers on your site didn’t work for me. I got some kind of Word .sit file. The link a few comments up to the Samsung site worked like a charm.
THANKS!!!
October 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Thank you very much for the information provided.
The download from the Australian site finaly worked for me.
cheers,
Thomas
November 12th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
[...] to Jeff Boulter’s Blog for the 2007 update of a 2005 post concerning a driver for the Samsung 1740 laser printer. I love this printer, had it for years because of its Linux all-calm just-go driver. [...]
November 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Happy to find your site but can’t find the drivers. Link keeps downloading a file that opens up my Office Mac. ? Help!
December 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Thanks Jeff! I successfully installed on my G4.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Just got my dell 1110 working on osx 10.5 finally complicated latex symbols print as well!
Thanks!
December 18th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Thank you! I got a “previously-returned” close-out at Sam’s Club for the ML-1710 a few years back. I remember that it was all marked for Windows, but mentioned *nix compatibility. No drivers in the box. I had to download from the French site at the time.
December 27th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Made a software update on my iMac G4 and afterwards I can no longer print. I found your blog by searching Google. I’ve tried downloading the new link for the drivers for my ML-1740 Samsung printer, but the drivers are not recognized and it still won’t let me add this printer. I think I deleted all the old Samsung folders and drivers before downloading the new file. I also tried the older link but that doesn’t work for me either. I’m no great tech person so any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
January 6th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
To confirm Tom’s suggestiong (above) The Samsung ML-2010 printer driver for Mac OS works for the Dell 1100 printer. For
ML-2010 driver go to website: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/download/supportDown.do?model_nm=ML-2010/XIP&mType=DR&vType=L
January 8th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
AWESOME!!! I was about to give up and buy a new printer. The newest driver loaded 8/10/07 at the top of the page works on my system, and even as a shared printer over my Airport Extreme Base Station… THANKS 256!
January 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I just wanted to join in the chorus of thanks you’re receiving. I bought the ML-1740 Samsung to replace a Lexmark inkjet printer for my Dell laptop, a behemoth that guzzled $80 ink cartridges like they were champagne. The Samsung, on the other hand, has worked beautifully - even though I’ve used it quite a lot these past three years, I’ve yet to change the laser cartridge.
Recently, I purchased a MacBook Pro, and I discovered that Samsung didn’t have any drivers for the Mac. But a quick Google search brought your website up on top, and after a quick download and installation, my Samsung is now printing perfectly on my Mac. Thank you so much for making these drivers available like this.
January 21st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
With the help from the Apple sales guy, located your download for the Samsung 1740 and installed it on my new Leopard. With a little bit of trial and error, got the right directions and voila! We have hardcopy.
Thanks, hate to throw out a good printer.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
thanks Jeff and also Jason for the tip about checking “open with rosetta” in the printer utility. i am on an intel macbook and the ml-1740 was not showing up on my list until i used your tricky. thx guys!!!
February 27th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Hi
I ported the free Splix driver (which supports the ML1610 among a lot of other printers) to mac os x. I haven’t tested it on Tiger, but it should work too. You can download it at http://www.guigo.us/mac/splix
Feedback is welcome! thanks
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Dear Jeff,
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
–CJ
March 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Thanks for information….!
March 24th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Hi
Thanks much for the .sit file that you kept away. I just bought a Samsung ML-1610 and wanted to sync it with my Mac Laptop. Otherwise, its connected to a Windows powered desktop. Interestingly, the India site of Samsung gives Linux support.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Hi, Jeff,
Thanks for the Samsung ML-1740 driver! Bet you thought you wouldn’t STILL be receiving gratitude as late as April, 2008… No, wait, I see that there are other die-hard keepers of “legacy” printers out there
Regards,
Alan
April 30th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi, Jeff,
Thanks for the Samsung ML-1740 driver, I have been looking for this for years! I agree with Alan Paul, there are other die-hard keepers of “legacy” printers out there
Regards,
Steve B
May 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Thanks for the driver! My brother bought this printer as a present for my mom over two years ago. When she couldn’t get it working, it got dumped on me and it’s been gathering dust since then. I, too, tried working with Samsung for drivers but to no avail. THANK YOU!!!
May 31st, 2008 at 8:01 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I dusted off my old Samsung ML-1740 printer to use with my new Macbook and went to the expense of ordering a replacement toner on amazon and a usb/parallel port adapter so I could make it work on my Macbook. After all this I start reading that the printer won’t work with a Mac! After a goodle search and a little fiddling around with your driver link, I got it to work just like everyone else! So thanks for saving me some money and keeping this printer out of some landfill somewhere…
June 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
dude! You’re amazing, I’m reading comments here from four years ago and you’re still getting rave reviews! Thanks for doing this!
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 am
Hi there,
I found your website via Google search, but noticed that the installer you had for download was quite old. I went to the Samsung Australia site, and it looks like they have newer drivers, that work well with OS X 10.4-10.5 (and not require restarting, either). I installed the one for 10.5 via the link at http://www.samsung.com/au/support/download/supportDown.do?group=printer%2C%20multifunction%20%26amp%3B%20fax&type=printer%2C%20multifunction%20%26amp%3B%20fax&subtype=mono%20laser%20printer&model_nm=ML-1740&disp_nm=ML-1740&language=&cate_type=all&dType=D&mType=DR&vType=L&prd_ia_cd=06010400 and after installation, plugged in the printer and it was recognized perfectly and printed without any issues whatsoever.
Thanks for the post!
-matias
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
Oops, just noticed the update notice at the top of the post, pointing to that new driver. Oh well.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hey Jeff, OSX 10.5 don’t like the newest posted driver, but the old one works just fine.
Just fyi..
July 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Thankyou it’s wonderful,