Old Samsung printer drivers
In our post Christmas attic clear out I was ordered to quell the rising tide of ancient computer equipment, there is a classic Mac, Old hard disks, CD writers and power supplies - just in case. Tonnes of defunct applications, downloaded CD etc.
Well one of the things I had to justify keeping was an old laser printer a Samsung ML-1750. So on the box it says it's compatible with mac. I plug it in and start printer setup dialog it knows on the USB bus but the drivers weren't available.
To be honest I could be culpable for that, I do remember on a spring cleaning exercise recently I did decide to blow out a bunch of drivers I decided I didn't need in the printers folder.
I inserted the CD that was supplied the 6 years ago with my laser and found that the installer wouldn't run on this system I'm assuming it's a driver / rosetta / intel issue.
As always google is your friend and after sliding around the cyber ooze for while I discovered a great little installer. Not directly from Samsung, but from free-driver-download.com what is weird the next page that starts the download appears to contact product.samsung.com
The install looks pretty samsung like to...
Well I ran that, and it had to reboot which I hate and had forgotten how common it was on Windows compared to how unusual it is on Mac. None the less after the reboot the add printer tool, when I clicked the USB connected printer knew what driver to use. Hoorar.
Now I've just go to put it back in the box and leave it up in the attic for another 2 years.
Well one of the things I had to justify keeping was an old laser printer a Samsung ML-1750. So on the box it says it's compatible with mac. I plug it in and start printer setup dialog it knows on the USB bus but the drivers weren't available.
To be honest I could be culpable for that, I do remember on a spring cleaning exercise recently I did decide to blow out a bunch of drivers I decided I didn't need in the printers folder.
I inserted the CD that was supplied the 6 years ago with my laser and found that the installer wouldn't run on this system I'm assuming it's a driver / rosetta / intel issue.
As always google is your friend and after sliding around the cyber ooze for while I discovered a great little installer. Not directly from Samsung, but from free-driver-download.com what is weird the next page that starts the download appears to contact product.samsung.com
The install looks pretty samsung like to...
Well I ran that, and it had to reboot which I hate and had forgotten how common it was on Windows compared to how unusual it is on Mac. None the less after the reboot the add printer tool, when I clicked the USB connected printer knew what driver to use. Hoorar.
Now I've just go to put it back in the box and leave it up in the attic for another 2 years.
posted by M at 8:10 PM
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