What Samsung Printer Drivers work with Lion?

Congratulations and Thank you Felix, I Will try. Finally i can upgrade to Lion.

Best regards,

Deloper.

Thank you for finding the driver. My Samsung ML1740 is up and running again thru my USB connection and thru my network.

Had the same problem. Installed lion and my printer stopped working so I went ahead deleted it then reinstalled it. To my disappointment that didn't fix it. Read through a couple of forums and downloaded the latest driver from www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads then reinstall and, added the printer again. Bingo printer worked straight away.

That was great. Worked like a charm. Thanks!!!

Anoter happy Lion/ML-1740 user, thank you sir!!! Worked like a charm. 🙂

http://guigo.us/mac/splix/

There are four different ways to get your Samsung ML-1710, ML-1740, or ML-1750 printer to work in Lion:

Samsung Driver from Samsung Australia

http://samsung.com/au/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP01&prd_ia_cd=&pr d_mdl_cd=&prd_mdl_name=ML-1740

Download the link under "Driver" that has the file WebLBP_SPL2.zip (Version 0.97, 04 Dec 2008). The 1710, 1740, and 1750 are compatible with each other, so it will work with all of them.

Note that, with computer equipment, it's very common for manufacturers to abandon support for something in the United States, while the exact same product continues to get support and/or updates in other countries. If you ever again have trouble finding a driver for an older product, look for them on the web sites of the manufacturer's non-U.S. offices.

Also, there are some open source projects which enable printing on older Samsung printers in 10.6/10.7:

Samsung-GDI

http://linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/samsung-gd i

GutenPrint

http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php

SpliX

http://guigo.us/mac/splix/

You said that GutenPrint was working in Snow Leopard but stopped working when you upgraded to Lion. Did you do the obvious, like re-install it? %-)

All I can say is woo-hoo. I think, maybe, that's why I waited a little while to install Lion. Now it's time to get the other idiosyncrasies figured out

Sanspoint

thankyou for saving me a world of pain! Splix is the go, nearly gave up and bought a new printer

Zinfandel48

I must be doing something wrong. I've tried downloading all the drivers suggestested, deleted and added the printer again, but still nothing. When I add the 1710 again, I have to go search for the driver, and I can find tons of Samsung drivers that I downloaded in the links provided, but there's not one there for either the 1710 or 1740. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

make sure you're looking for the SpliX drivers., not Samsung drivers. If the 2.0 driver doesn't work, use the previous one, 1.1.1. I hope this helps.

My problem is that the only Splix Files I can find are .zip or .pkg or mpkg files, and when selecting the driver for the printer, it won't let me select files with those extentions. I thought when I ran the zip, and then the install file, a different Splix file would be created that I could use as the driver, but there doesn't apear to be one.

The forst response in this string states the web site: http://guigo.us/mac/splix/. The driveras are there.

and I can't spell.

WOW MAN, SPINX?! THANKS FOR FINDING THIS DRIVER!

For those who have noticed that the http://guigo.us/mac/splix/ site is now down, I found another fix that worked for me on my new Lion 10.7.2:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosx/samsun g-gdi

It requires you to install two other programs besides the driver, but it worked for me. Make sure you follow the directions in the ReadMe for printing to happen.

Best,

Brian