Samsung printer compatible with my Macbook?

[ceg]

I want to buy the Samsung ML-1630 laser printer. It says it's compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4. My machine is 10.5.2. Does that mean it's not compatible? Thanks.

 

[Guy Incognito]

It should work if you can find drivers. I use an ML-1710 with 10.5, and it works fine.

 

[aaquib]

I have the same printer as the poster above(ML 1710) and I just downloaded the only drivers I could find(OS X 10.3 Panther).

 

[sickmacdoc]

I want to buy the Samsung ML-1630 laser printer. It says it's compatible with Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4. My machine is 10.5.2. Does that mean it's not compatible? Thanks.

I just went and looked at the Samsung web site's printer drivers (always a good thing to try first for future reference ) and they have a driver for the ML-1630 for OS 10.3-10.5 here.

Whether that latest version comes on the disk that would come with the printer or whether you just download it for simplicity, you should be fine.

 

[Blue Velvet]

I've got the Samsung ML-1630. Nice printer... but the only problem with Leopard is printing over wireless with Airport Express. I had to mess around with the printer settings as detailed in this thread over at Apple discussions:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6798906


Below is the solution. New drivers and OS updates might have fixed things by now, but I'll park this here in case it's of use.

Courtesy of kalles on another thread...it actually worked for me this morning.

I had the same problem for a few days, but with a Samsung ML-2010
I solved it and have been using it with no problems for a week.
I am using an airport extreme and a printer on an express.
This is what I did.
1. Opened print/fax pref
2. Went to + (add printer)
3. Went to IP and dragged down to HP Jetdirect.
4. I opened Airport Utility and clicked on my express to get IP address 10.0.1.200
5. Typed this in "Address" back in Fax/print.
6. Left the "Name" as it appeared And typed in my location name.
7. Print Driver I used was ML-2010 (look in M's), not any Samsung listed driver (in the S's).
8. Tried it out and it worked!

My printer is listed as 10.0.1.200 - I may try to change name later.

Before I tried typing the name of my Express (Bequia)in the "Address" field and it recognized the printer but never worked.

Hope this helps.

It works fine over USB.

 

[ceg]

A new question

Thanks a lot to those who responded. I'm a total tech no-nothing, so didn't even know about drivers or any of that.