Driver CUPS PPD for Samsung ML-1865W printer

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Driver CUPS PPD for Samsung ML-1865W printer

I have a Samsung ML-1865W printer, which was working, with Catalina, using a PPD file. The manufacturer does not offer 64-bit drivers.

I downloaded the file at:

https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Samsung/Samsung-ML-1865W

It happens that the file from the link above is corrupted, with zero bytes, and when formatting my system, I lost the file that was working.

Does anyone know where to find another file that works on the Mac?

The ppd of the linux printer driver did not work, I already tried to extract it.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 14, 2020 7:28 AM

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Jan Hedlund

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Nov 14, 2020 10:20 PM in response to ghiberti

Hi,

The printer is in the current list in article About AirPrint - Apple Support as HP ML-1865W. Mentioned as Samsung ML-1865W in an older edition of the article (modified Dec 10, 2015).

According to the article Add a printer on Mac - Apple Support: "If your printer is AirPrint-enabled, it’s compatible with macOS."

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Jan Hedlund

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Nov 14, 2020 11:24 PM in response to ghiberti

OK. The only basic Mac drivers (V5.00) at the HP Support site are for OS X 10.10 Yosemite and earlier. There are Linux drivers too (e.g. Ubuntu V1.00.39_01:17). I guess that you have checked all these already, as well as HP and older Samsung downloads from Apple, for anything of interest.

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/samsung-ml-1865-laser-printer-series/19134664

HP Printer Drivers v5.1 for OS X

Samsung Printer Drivers v2.6 for OS X

Sometimes, it can be worth looking for drivers for similar printer models from the same manufacturer.

Good luck!

If your HP printer doesn't work and you see a warning that HP software '...will damage your computer' - Apple Support

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Nov 14, 2020 10:30 PM in response to Jan Hedlund

Hi,

Wen I used AirPrint driver, only pdf and image files are printed correctly. Texts from office and other files, print a lot of meaningless characteres.

So I look for the CUPS driver, which I used before formatting, because it makes the printer work normally with any type of file.

Tks!

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Jan Hedlund

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Nov 20, 2020 11:06 AM in response to ghiberti

Hello again,

The PPD that you mentioned appears to have been part of the then Samsung unified driver for Linux. If you go to HP's support page https://support.hp.com/gb-en/product/samsung-ml-1865-laser-printer-series/19134664

-> drivers (with Linux chosen as an operating system), you should find https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software13/printers/SS/SL-C4010ND/uld_V1.00.39_01.17.tar.gz .

If you download and save that file, and open the tar.gz, the result should be a uld folder. Inside is a noarch folder. Then a share folder. Finally, a ppd folder. If you open it, you will find an ML-1865W Series ppd file. Could this be what you are looking for?

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ghiberti Author

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Nov 20, 2020 11:08 AM in response to Jan Hedlund

Hello again,

The PPD file inside tar.gz, for linux, did not work on MacOS. I tried to extract the PPD file before, but it has an error when installing, as it depends on additional files not available.

The PPD file I am looking for is generic, and allows installation without any additional files.

Thanks again!

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