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.
Now if I could only get MY printer to work from my laptop. 🙁
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.
Found your post by searching for “ML-1740” Mac on Google. It was exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks! I wasn’t sure whether or not to buy this printer but now I’m sold 🙂
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.
What happened to your local copy?
Fixed. I can’t spell.
Thanks Jeff! I was just trying to do this today myself. 🙂
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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
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!
Thanks much for posting this driver!
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.
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…
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…
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.
With this driver, will a ML-1610 work with airport express?
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.
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!!
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
Thanks for the help with the driver. I hope No one will end this support. Perhaps Samsung will fix this oversight??
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 ([email protected])
thanks,
shayna
Thx, this wat i’m looking for~~~
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 !
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!
YUSSS! thanks brohammer
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?
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
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
who needs MAC anyway 🙂 LOL
Switch to linux, if you don’t have a driver, make it! 🙂
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
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
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
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!
samsung ml-1740 driver osx for me
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.
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…
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!
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?
hey, i downloaded the driver for my samsung ml-1740. but where do i put it in after i download?
Jim, In the print window select “paper handling” then either check or uncheck the “reverse page order ” box, then save this in your preset.