Samsung ML-1740 Printer Drivers for Macs

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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.

211 Comments

  1. 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?

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  3. 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!

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  4. 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=

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  5. 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.

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  9. 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

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  11. 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

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  14. 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  15. 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!

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  16. 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?

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  18. 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.

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  20. 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. )

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  21. 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

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  22. 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.

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  23. 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

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  24. 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!! 🙂

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  26. 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.

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  27. 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!

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  29. 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.

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  31. 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!

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  32. 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.

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  34. 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?

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  36. 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.

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  37. 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.

    _________________________________________________________________________________

    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!

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  38. 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?

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  39. 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!

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  41. 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!

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  42. 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.

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  47. 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!

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  49. 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

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