Drivers for Samsung ML-1660 printer

Samsung completed the sale of their printer division to Hewlett-Packard in Nov 2017. The ML-1660 printer was initially released around 2010. Yes, your printer is too old for your new Mac and HP is not producing drivers for a 16-year-old printer and it certainly predates any Apple AirPrint support.

I suggest that you look at a new printer that fits your budget, functionality need, and is Apple AirPrint compatible, so you won't be dependent upon printer vendor driver support. Look at the Brother printer lineup, though others make Apple AirPrint compatible devices.

The following workaround should work up to Intel Sequoia with (I have Samsung ML-1675 and Sequoia):

Samsung ML-1630

Samsung ML-1660

Samsung ML-1670

Samsung ML-1675

Samsung ML-1860

On macOS 11-14 Big Sur - Sequoia you must install those drivers via Pacifist 4 (~ $24€) because the old installer does not work on newer macOS ("This volume does not meet the requirements for this update.").

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253763817

Also, according to the HP support page https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/samsung-ml-1660-laser-printer-series/model/19134484?sku=SV745A, with Linux selected as the operating system, a Samsung Unified Linux Driver package appears to be available.

If you are willing to carry out an experiment before buying a new printer (for example, if you have an existing supply of toner), a small and relatively inexpensive Raspberry Pi print server (with Linux) could possibly turn a USB-connected ML-1660 into a printer with AirPrint-like capabilities. The idea would be to try to achieve printing from a modern Mac (or iPhone/iPad) without the need for additional macOS drivers (or iOS/iPadOS apps). Again, an experiment; it may or may not work.

Techguyuk mentioned a Raspberry Pi 3 in connection with a Kyocera laser printer.

Can’t print with iPadOS17 - Apple Community

Tesserax reported about using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ for an old HP LaserJet printer.

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nanokabano wrote:

Thank you for your prompt reply. I will look for a new printer (Brother lineup) as you suggested.

Which printer should I buy: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250003486