I cant install my printer after the 11.01 macos Big Sur

Apple decided to make the laser printer Samsung CLP 360 series dysfunctional over a night. No drivers provided for this model that can work with macos Big Sur anymore. In HP they admit that they are unable to find drivers for my product https://support.hp.com/ie-en/drivers/selfservice/samsung-clp-360-color-laser-printer-series/17156859

CLP-360_Series_Mac_PrinterDriver_V5.02.00 were working fine with macos X 10.15 during the installation through Bonjour. But now they are not available anymore. I installed them by myself but the system can't detect them. So the printer is not working.

Any kind of help it will be more than welcome.

Posted on Nov 13, 2020 9:42 AM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2021 6:14 AM

It finally worked on my MacBook Air M1! I had to first install Samsung printer drivers for Catalina from Apple, but it's not enough. One needs to manually copy several folders and files from an older computer where the printer already works (ML-1630W in my case) from /Library/Printers/Samsung/ and /Library/Printers/PPDs/ that are not in the same path as the newer Catalina drivers AND at the same time correct the owners and permissions (I used BatchMod to go faster). For the correct path you can, on the older Mac, uncompress /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/name_of_your_printer.gz, then open the file in a raw text editor and see what are the paths that differ from the newer Catalina driver, and copy these files at the right place on your M1 Mac (I used Airdrop to go faster). You need to first open permissions and propagate them to included items, otherwise files won't copy properly. Then reassign correct owner & permissions on the target Mac. It eventually worked, but what a mess!

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Feb 15, 2021 1:48 AM in response to -ixen-

HI! You can try something about this (may be helpfull):

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It means, that you need to install Samsung SL-M2070 driver on your mac.

(Samsung Universal Print DriverV3.93.01 19.7 MB Feb 11, 2021)

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Solve "Defender installation problem" with Instruction above using terminal.app

After that, install MAC_Printer > Printer driver.pkg and MAC_ICDM > ICDM.pkg

Than you can add Samsung SCX-3405W via USB cable (System preferences > Printers & scanners, +add)

Good luck and enjoy this solution! I hope U be HAPPY! Cheers!


PS: Also you can use VueScan app for a better and faster scanning"


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Dec 15, 2020 5:16 PM in response to rbogdanovic

Hi to all of you Mac geeks in Apple land. Big Sur update did nothing for the Mac Pro. (i movie update) Same problems. Mac Pro will not recognize Epson printer. Sometimes when shutting down, Mail opens and U have to force quit?. When we power up, the trash has (old news ) recovered files in it which are empty files. Photo quits unexpectedly?. Still NO

improvement. Big Sur bugs passed on from Catalina. Come on Apple fix it. Cupertino geeks should be replaced? Mr. Cook

Help us long time customers, Now not later, not tomorrow, not next week...Now Merry Christmas!


JosephJ.

Dec 16, 2020 7:24 AM in response to Ronasara

I have the same issue and can't use my printer with M1 silicon Macbook Air. It is a shame, printing technology is very old in IT and should not be an issue to have driver compatible at a time where we can execute any technology on any platform with such easy way. Special red lanterne to HP where you can't even open an incident ticket since first step is to give HP serial driver (but it is a Samsung printer bought by HP). HP also don't have such forum/blog like Apple. Apple did help me and tried to fix it over the phone (almost 2 hours).

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