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Mac OS X 10.5: Samsung ML-1610

We have a Samsung Ml-1610 B&W laser printer at home which is available to everyone in the household since it is connected to the Airport Express’s USB-port which handles the rest.

In order to get it working with Windows the only thing you need to do is install the Samsung drivers, download and install Apple Bonjour and use the Add Bonjour Printer Wizard to add the printer and you’re done. On Mac OS X, it’s a bit different. Unfortunately, the ML-1610 uses Samsung’s GDI which works just find with Windows but is a no-go on Mac OS X. Well, that is not entirely true. There is a Samsung-gdi-foomatic package available from linux-pfoundation.org and an outdated EPS Ghostscript package. When both are installed, the printer works like a charm with Mac OS X, including Leopard.

The only unfortunate thing, EPS Ghostscript 7 is old, very old and has been migrated into GPL Ghostscript 8.60. Since the build they deliver at linux-foundation.org is a PPC image I decided to get the 8.60 source code and compile and build it myself. That went fine, the only commands you need are ./configure, make && sudo make install which should be familiar to anyone who has compiled an application before. After that I installed the Samsung-GDI-foomatic build (powerpc again, but no source code to compile yourself) and I figured, this should work.

Well guess again Sherlock, it doesn’t. For some obscene obscure reason which I haven’t figured out yet I actually need to use the EPS Ghostscript 7 binary, otherwise the print job just won’t complete. Why, I don’t know and frankly it beats the hell out of me but it is still very much annoying.

Download links: Linux-Foundation.org

It doesn’t matter in which order you install the images, as long as you install both of them.

UPDATE: the updated to EPS Ghosscript installer to GPL GHostscript 8.61, download and install it, it works :D

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  1. guigouz says

    Hi
    I ported the free Splix driver (which supports the ML1610 among a lot of other printers) to mac os x. I haven’t tested it on Tiger, but it should work too. You can download it at http://www.guigo.us/mac/splix
    Feedback is welcome! thanks

  2. Daenney says

    Hey,

    Thanks for the post dude.
    Actually, with your drivers it works a lot better, Leopard kept having issues with my Samsung ML-1610, sometimes not printing, other times just throwing errors in my face.
    I’m going to update the post to your driver set, you just solved one of my major annoyances with Leopard!

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