Remember my post about the Samsung ML-1610 and how to get it to work on Leopard? Well, someone in the comments mentioned he created an SpliX Mac package, which basically adds support to OS X for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) enabled printers.
This is a far neater and less haxory setup that the original way of using the LinxPrinting offered downloads since these are native CUPS drivers and besides, they spare you a lot of hassle and about 30MB of diskspace.
SpliX for Mac OS can be found here: http://www.guigo.us/mac/splix/
I highly recommend using the SpliX package for all supported printers, OS X Printer and Fax Wizard will auto-detect the ML-1610 (in my case) and assign the 1610 SpliX driver. This also works flawlessly for Airport Express attached printers.
Hi there!
I did the ultracomplicated way, installing 3 different files and my printer became visible, but printing with no margins and stuff. I tried installing the spliX and nothing changed. So my question is: how do I uninstall the other stuff and get things right with spliX? (Obs: my printer is the ML-1610)
I’d need some specifics, like what else did you install before I can suggest how to get rid of everything.
When you say it works flawlessly for Airport attached printers, do you mean the ML-1610 is compatible with Airport? It’s missed off Apple’s official list of supported printers but I have a sneaky suspicion it would probably work??
It is indeed. When you attach an ML-1610 to an Airport Express G or N (I’ve tested with both) the Airport Express recognizes the Samsung ML-1610 and advertises is correctly over Bonjour/Zeroconf. Coupled with the SpliX printer driver package mentioned in this post and it’s just two clicks away from being recognized and added in the Printer & Fax Preference Pane.
Splix 2.0 works well! I have an SCX 4216f and installed the SCX 4200 driver from Splix which worked straight away on Snow Leopard. Thanks.