Samsung ML-1510 laser printer incompatible with Snow Leopard

This is just a heads up if you can’t get your Samsung ML-1510 laser printer to work with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The current Samsung driver for Mac OS 10.3 doesn’t work with Snow Leopard and Samsung’s advice to reinstall the 10.5 driver isn’t much use — there is no 10.5 driver.

With regard to your ML-1510 and the recent issue you have experienced with Mac OS 10.6, as with previously released versions of the Mac OS, Samsung Electronics will provide support for this platform and will provide drivers for the new OS once they have been refined. In the mean time a number of our users have reported that simply reinstalling the 10.5 driver will allow users to continue using their printer.

Once the drivers have been refined for this latest Mac OS release they will be posted on the download centre of our website, we suggest that you monitor the website for their release.

Fortunately, Samsung is at least working on a 10.6 driver for this cheap and cheerful laser printer, but there’s no word on when it will appear. When it does, look for it here.

  • a564a45

    THE SOLUTION for ML-1510:

    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/…

    It's works – and many-many thanks for the linux guys!

  • spda242

    I installed Rosetta and reinstalled the old 10.3 – 10.5 device drivers (Samsung SPL2 Installer) and I can print again.
    I also sent an email to Samsung inquiring about a new driver with native support for SL!

  • sesty

    @spda242: Tried doing that myself and was unsuccessful. Which version of the drivers were you reinstalling?
    Such a pain that this printer doesn't work properly.

  • http://spielhaus-ftw.com/ Stefan

    Hi,

    The SpliX package provides a set of CUPS drivers including the ML-1510 (ML-1410).
    http://guigo.us/mac/splix/

    It works!

  • http://code.pui.ch/ Philipp Keller

    I also have a Samsung ML-1510 printer at home, and it stopped working after I've upgraded to Snow Leopard. But just reinstalling from here worked for me:
    http://www.samsung.com/download/FileView.aspx?c…